Philanthrophize This!

"Philanthropy is the act of donating money, goods, services, time and/or effort to support a socially beneficial cause, with a defined objective and with no financial or material reward to the donor. In a more general sense, philanthropy may encompass any altruistic activity intended to promote good or improve human quality of life."

Thanks Wikipedia!

It's funny because according to our company:
"Philanthropy is the act of annoying the company's employees with attempts at raising money, good, services, time and/or effort to support stupid causes that are socially beneficial to no one, with a defined objective of making the company look like they aren't the spawn of Satan and with tons of financial or material reward to the donor (not looking like Satan, etc.) In a more general sense, philanthropy (at this company) doesn't encompass anything that is valuable or helpful to anyone in any way. While any altruistic activity is intended to promote good or improve human quality of life, this company's committee does no such thing. Someone needs to be shot...or at least demoted from the committee."

I would like to write about this week's awesome attempt at trying to pry money away from the stingy bastards we work with, but this philanthropy event is so dumb, so absolutely insanely dumb, that if I were to describe it people who work here would know we were talking about this company...because no one else could come up with an idea equally as dumb.

Let's just say it involves collecting change and we'll leave it at that. Oh, and all the money we raise is going to an equally stupid 'charity'. God I hate this place so very much.