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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, OP, that sucks.

Companies are cheap as hell. I once worked somewhere that tried to pass off the opportunity to wear jeans to work on Fridays (in the summer in DC!) as a staff appreciation program. But in order to earn the right to wear jeans, you had to donate a minimum of $5 to a charity chosen by one of the management team members, and there was literally someone who would come around with a list to see who had donated and then look under your desk to see if you had jeans on.

I felt so deeply appreciated that I went and got a job somewhere else where I could wear jeans whenever I wanted and there was no compulsory charity requirement.[/quote]

The Jean Pass Day, was it a law firm?[/quote]

+1 (my initial guess also)[/quote]

I worked at a law firm that did this 15-ish years ago. [/quote]

I work at a law firm that still does this or did pre-pandemic when we were all going into the office.  We'll see if it restarts when we're all back in. [/quote]

Yes, common large firm practice in DC. Also, when I was at a firm that did this, the partners who chose the charities would get really aggressive about them and some would send emails throughout the week encouraging people to give more than the required amount and accusing people of being cheap. Keep in mind that these emails were going not just to other partners, but to assistants and others who were making significantly less (and for whom affording the business clothes required to work there, because of course it wasn't even a business casual environment, was a lot trickier than for the attorneys). It was incredibly gross.

And don't think it didn't occur to many of us that the ultimate donation would either be in the firm's name or that of the partner who had suggested the charity for the week (I don't even know) which means it was a tax write off. It's a law firm -- we of course understood those dynamics.

Lawyers come by their reputations as total assholes honestly.[/quote]

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