Wow, 48 hours of complete shittiness, first day on the job is probably the most depressing experience I've had in a while and when I come home and drown my sorrows in a bottle of wine I find out my parents could have been caught in an earthquake and my girlfriend dumps me.
I'm going to tell you dear reader, whether you like it or not, how awful and despicable fundraising for charity really is. From the fundraisers point of view, it is like the very worst possible sales position because you are attempting to persuade your clients to buy something which is of no benefit to them what-so-ever and that they are not in the least interested in purchasing and on top of this, every single client will do their level best to pretend you don't exist or just lie to you constantly. Now, clearly charity work is important and charities need funds, so it's a noble cause, right? Wrong; when a client signs on to pay a small donation each week or month, approximately the first 8 MONTHS of the donation a person signs up to give pays for nothing more than the wages of the fundraiser (2 months) and, and this is the despicable part, propping up the pyramid scheme* that is a fundraising company (6 months). The worst part is, that any fundraising company will certainly tell you that the system works, the charities would not be getting their donations at all if they didn't employ fundraisers and it is just a necessary evil in making the world a better place, what a sorry state of affairs. Finally, to the public who sign up to donate to charity. Who ends up donating? The generous and well meaning people, the people who do the most at grass roots level to promote a fair and just society also end up donating the most of their earnings to charity, the people who are nice enough to stop and say what a good job you are doing by supporting the charity are those who end up being socially engineered into signing up for yet another charity. On the other hand, those who have much disposable income but are tight-fisted and mean have no trouble in ignoring fundraisers. And I'd bet a dime to a dollar that no single member of Joe public speaking to us knows how much of their donation will actually end up with the charity and how much will be squandered on the rampant profiteering of the fundraising company involved.
Naturally I'm slightly bitter at being fired but frankly I am also quite relieved. I think trying to force well meaning and often old and kind people into doing something they don't want to do is a pretty horrendous vocation and I hope that on some level, being bad at coercing people makes me a better individual. I did hear one piece of information that helped give me a better conceit of myself, apparently those who already give regularly to charity and are elderly are targeted by those who try to persuade them to put write charities into their will. I already have a pretty low opinion of society as a whole and shit like this just makes me want to stand outside of it completely.
I will probably commit suicide sometime later today to get away from this cruel and twisted world. I will make sure to prove a point however by climbing over the suicide barriers on the West Gate bridge and throwing myself off only after the cockroaches with cameras have taken plenty of pictures.
*Ok, if we are going to get technical, it is probably multi-level marketing but apparently most people consider the latter to be an example of the former anyway.
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