“Dad forbade us from collecting for UNICEF.”
ditto ... i remember the stupid little half pint UNICEF “milk” cartons with a slot for the pennies we were handed out in grade school that we were supposed to use for collecting pennies during trick-or-treating ... our parents told us collecting UNICEF pennies was a no go, though we were too young to understand why ...
decades later, when i worked corporate, we were massively bullied to “contribute” to the local United Way via auto-paycheck-deduction because the top dog in our GOCO (government-owned, contractor-operated) outfit would get some kind of attaboys or gold stars or something from his buds at the country club if he could “win” as best United Way collector ...
corporate underlings did the dirty work of bullying and there were strong insinuations that it would affect our promotability and future raises if we weren’t onboard with such theft of our salaries ... nonetheless, i declined because by then i was very well aware of the hard leftist outfits being funded by the local United Way in my area ...
it wasn’t long after that, that out GOCO stopped their United Way bullying ... i strongly suspect that there was a staff revolt and someone lodged a complaint with higher ups in the FedGov chain and our GOCO CEO was told that what he was doing was a nono ...
Yeah. United Way. What a load of leftist crap.
My boss, the HR Director, tried to force me to do the UW coordinating one year. We had a “discussion” about it. I finally said that I’d do it, if fiorced, but she wouldn’t like the final result. She relented and gave the job to one of the airy-fairy HR Analyst ladies. She was perfect for it. She had a big crush on Maya Angelou. 🤮