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Originally posted by ThrashersFan
Here we go again folks. Yesterday I walked into the breakroom and there sits the catalog with obligatory note "help me raise funds for my school and win the 'limo to lunch' prize." School started last Monday for fuck's sake. Then I go home only to discover that my son had been tapped by the "crappy Christmas wrap" fairie. He is only 5 years old. What the fuck.
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Preach it. Our neighborhood is swarming with junior high and H.S. kids who are paying for school trips and summer basketball camps by selling magazine and newspaper subscriptions door to door. It's practically slave labor for the companies selling this shit, and you're guilted into an essentially consumer transaction where the "product" is irrelevant. I don't want the fucking local paper because it fucking sucks. Why are you making me say this to a 13 year old black kid, instead of your marketing department? Oh, right, because there's a chance I'll say yes even though I don't want your fucking paper, and it's no skin off your nose because the kid only gets paid a small fraction of his sales. Why is this legal, again?
I volunteered for Christmas in April a couple of years ago, in the hopes that I could help a less advantaged person. Instead, we would up painting a public school. What the fuck are we doing in this country, that charities are performing routine maintenance on our public schools? I stayed all day and got a sunburn for it, but I was seething. Our public education system is subsidized by lotteries and bake sales. No wonder we're a fucking joke.
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