Are you buying "girls scouts cookies" from your coworkers?

[Anonymous]

I buy but let them donate to the military.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Personally, I only but cookies from girls who are actually there selling them themselves (door to door, in front of stores, etc). So I am not buying them from colleagues who bring the sales sheets to work, from friends advertising their kids' cookies on FB, etc.

My daughter went door to door - I went with her. Sadly of the 15 homes we went to of friends on our block - at times when it looked like someone was home - 3 families answered the door and purchased cookies.

Are the ones that bought, the only ones that answered? If so, then maybe some were home, and didn’t want to say No, but had a reason for not wanting to buy - already bought, gives them gas (as PP said), Etc. I always buy when a GScomes to the door and asks, so I understand it being hard telling a kid “no”. If I could hide, I probably would.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you want to avoid buying them, you can always say you’ve already committed to buying them from a neighbor. Thosr girls who sit outside of Safeway in the cold selling cookies are my neighbors.

x10000

[Anonymous]

I don’t selll at work, mostly because I’m the boss and that seems wrong. But I do buy a bunch and just bring them in to share.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Personally, I only but cookies from girls who are actually there selling them themselves (door to door, in front of stores, etc). So I am not buying them from colleagues who bring the sales sheets to work, from friends advertising their kids' cookies on FB, etc.

My daughter went door to door - I went with her. Sadly of the 15 homes we went to of friends on our block - at times when it looked like someone was home - 3 families answered the door and purchased cookies.

You must not know anything about sales. Making a sale at every fifth pitch is GREAT!

[Anonymous]

hell no

[Anonymous]

There is nothing wrong with selling at work. I’m a partner at a boutique law firm, and I just leave the sheet out for my daughter in the pantry on the counter. I don’t email or ask ANYONE. My partners and colleagues are more than happy to buy from her, and those sales are going somewhere so they might as well go to my daughter and her troop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think employers should ban the parents selling their children's cookies, wrapping paper, whatever at work. It is disruptive, and people only buy out of obligation.

It was banned in my office and when I opened my own small business, I banned all sales of any kind. They should be banned from grocery stores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is nothing wrong with selling at work. I’m a partner at a boutique law firm, and I just leave the sheet out for my daughter in the pantry on the counter. I don’t email or ask ANYONE. My partners and colleagues are more than happy to buy from her, and those sales are going somewhere so they might as well go to my daughter and her troop.

It's actually unethical to do this in the federal workplace. Not allowed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think employers should ban the parents selling their children's cookies, wrapping paper, whatever at work. It is disruptive, and people only buy out of obligation.

It was banned in my office and when I opened my own small business, I banned all sales of any kind. They should be banned from grocery stores.

Agree they should definitely be banned from work. What if everyone with kids did this? Also, you would feel obligated to buy from certain people (bosses, whatever). Of course, parents who sell their kids' cookies know this, and use it to their advantage - and it teaches the kid absolutely nothing except maybe to use people for their benefit.

I actually like the grocery idea because it shows minimal effort, and you are out buying food anyway, so why not.

[Anonymous]

Just bought 2 boxes on Friday, and I'm trying to loose weight, I wish I hadn't been asked.

[Anonymous]

My boss brings her kids in and walks them around to everyone’s office. I wish they would ban her from doing this. It makes you feel so pressured - not to mention the cookies suck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I buy but let them donate to the military.

I do the same. Happy to support the girls but just don't think the cookies taste very good.

[Anonymous]

If a Girl Scout actually asks me, I buy. This year, I got an email from a Girl Scout that I knew through church, and I ordered from her. Some of the other girls, their moms "mentioned" it, but I didn't buy from them. If no one asks in a year, then I'll buy a box or two from the groups set up at the grocery store.

Boy Scouts,have to step up their game, though. That popcorn is a complete ripoff. I bought one bag this year because a neighborhood boy knocked on the door. But it was $15 for a regular grocery store-sized bag of popcorn! At least the Girl Scouts only hit you up for $4-5.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is nothing wrong with selling at work. I’m a partner at a boutique law firm, and I just leave the sheet out for my daughter in the pantry on the counter. I don’t email or ask ANYONE. My partners and colleagues are more than happy to buy from her, and those sales are going somewhere so they might as well go to my daughter and her troop.

You think they are more than happy, but they are complaining about you.