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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m very surprised that the soup kitchen doesn’t have a direct policy addressing these kinds of “gifts”, especially volunteer to individual. [/quote]

The place I have volunteered has a 100% rule that volunteers cannot give clients/customers/beneficiaries/guests anything the volunteer did not receive from the sponsoring organization. It is hard sometimes, but it prevents situations like the one OP experienced.

Soup kitchen people run the gamut, but it is not unusual for them to be desperate, protectively narcissistic and even opportunistic. As a friend with more experience once told me “to them, you’re rich.”[/quote]

I’m the other quoted poster, and I’m trying to figure out if OP is a troll or not. FWIW, I’m not one that ever calls troll. I actually tend to be sucked in by trolls because I like to help.

In any case, reality is, I’ve never helped at an organization that does not have very clear cut rules about this sort of thing that volunteers train and sign off on. It doesn’t only help protect people and their finances who are trying to help from having the situation that OP is describing, but also helps prevent exploitation of the clients of the service by people who may try to leverage their resources over them. [/quote]

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