Pet peeve -group gifts

[Anonymous]

If I am collecting for a teacher or a coach or whatever, and I say cash or Venmo is fine, please don't email me asking if I take paypal or cash app or zelle or whatever. I'm not a store, or Ebay.

[Anonymous]

I like the people who say "put me in for $20" and then just never pay....

[Anonymous]

Maybe don’t collect. Most people have multiple ways to collect so perhaps someone else can do it.

[Anonymous]

But how much should I give? (these are the people you went to school with who needed the teacher to give them ideas for their paper or project topics. I hated these people with every breath of my being from 7th grade to grad school (yes they still asked then))

[Anonymous]

Group gifts for teachers and coaches are my pet peeve. Stop

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Group gifts for teachers and coaches are my pet peeve. Stop

Not thanking a volunteer coach for your kid is appallingly rude.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Group gifts for teachers and coaches are my pet peeve. Stop

Not thanking a volunteer coach for your kid is appallingly rude.

DP but I do individual thank you cards for every teacher, coach, volunteer instructor, etc. at the end of the year.

I do also donate to the group gifts but I actually find them irritating and wish they wouldn't do them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Group gifts for teachers and coaches are my pet peeve. Stop

Not thanking a volunteer coach for your kid is appallingly rude.

You can thank a volunteer coach by saying thank you, or writing a thank you card. If a volunteer coach is in it for the gift rather than the love of the game, then they shouldn't be volunteering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Group gifts for teachers and coaches are my pet peeve. Stop

Then don't contribute.
Just don't ask OP if she takes bitcoin or rupees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Group gifts for teachers and coaches are my pet peeve. Stop

Not thanking a volunteer coach for your kid is appallingly rude.

You can thank a volunteer coach by saying thank you, or writing a thank you card. If a volunteer coach is in it for the gift rather than the love of the game, then they shouldn't be volunteering.

Yes, everyone is lining up to volunteer a hundred hours for the pleasure of coaching your little Larlo so they can scam you out of a $15 Dunkin card. Its a long con.

[Anonymous]

say no

[Anonymous]

I have always steered clear of that nonsense. My kids are now 21 and 16.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Group gifts for teachers and coaches are my pet peeve. Stop

Not thanking a volunteer coach for your kid is appallingly rude.

NP. I do, individually.

That way I am not covering up for the cheapos, those who "forgot" to give $, and those who just don't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Group gifts for teachers and coaches are my pet peeve. Stop

If someone has offered to organize it and all I have to do is transfer money, it's literally the least I could do requiring almost no effort to thank someone for their time and effort since I didn't even want to do that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I am collecting for a teacher or a coach or whatever, and I say cash or Venmo is fine, please don't email me asking if I take paypal or cash app or zelle or whatever. I'm not a store, or Ebay.

Maybe say “..for electronic payments, I only take Venmo.”