OP - try your local free cycle/Buy Nothing group.

Thrift stores are swimming in donations right now. Everyone was home and cleaned out their basements. Call one of the organizations that will come to your house to pickup like Vietnam Vets.

Anonymous wrote:This is why I have started tossing perfectly good items / never worn clothing etc in the dumpster rather than donate to an organization like Salvation Army. I don't need them to fall all over themselves to thank me for my 2 bags of clothing, but I won't deal with the rudeness, weird aggressiveness, and bad attitudes at the drop off sites either. Not going to have some nasty volunteer or employee or whatever they are rudely bark orders at me while they sit in their chair staring at the donation line. I don't particularly care about their personal circumstances just as they don't know or care about mine.

I will counter the negativity by saying that whenever I have dropped off goods at the Salvation Army location in Annandale, the men who've helped me have been nothing but pleasant and kind.

Wow I'm 7:46 and reading the other posts, I am surprised people think YOU are the problem OP. I disagree completely. I have had to do customer facing service over the years and you do whatever it takes, with a smile. I am an executive with degrees and I have fetched coffee, carried boxes, helped lost customers find their way to an event in the hotel.... I have even cut up meat for my colleagues when they were slammed and only had five minutes to eat their meal behind the divider between us and the customers. This is the way it should be. These people are paying my salary.

Unless it's what another poster said and the people are doing court ordered service which could explain the surliness.

I think you need to write a letter to the boss.

I get it, OP, and I hate it, too. People around here can make it seem like they’re doing you a favor by taking your donation. I’ve even gotten that vibe from volunteers at one of the MoCo charities with a really stellar, ‘cool’ reputation. Sorry that others were bashing you, since I think you have perfectly valid points.

Sadly, it sounds a lot like DCUM.

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Anonymous wrote:Ok OP I don't think your post is that bad and I am sorry people are being so snarky to you. In ANY kind of setting, I get annoyed by rude people who are rude for no reason at all! Feel free to write a letter explaining you won't be donating anymore because of your experience.

And yes, perhaps that person had some kind of silent temporary disability which did not allow her to help you... but to all the haters, she could have just said "I'm so sorry, I can't do any heavy lifting right now. I see you can't either. Let me see if someone else can help us."

Is that THAT hard people!? Why are you all bashing OP. Jeez.

Your sockpuppeting is very obvious.

I thought everyone was being pretty rough on her, too. Big pile-on. I imagine OP knows she came off the wrong way in her post.
For over a year now, things have been very hard for people, OP. Don’t take anything personally right now. A lot of folks’ behavior has become less than pleasant for a myriad of reasons. Who knows if the people with whom you interact daily have lost one or more loved ones or friends to covid? Clearly you’ve been through a lot recently. Maybe stop doing errands like this until you feel 100%?

PP. I know exactly the kind of behavior OP is referring to and it's not new or pandemic related.

This is why I have started tossing perfectly good items / never worn clothing etc in the dumpster rather than donate to an organization like Salvation Army. I don't need them to fall all over themselves to thank me for my 2 bags of clothing, but I won't deal with the rudeness, weird aggressiveness, and bad attitudes at the drop off sites either. Not going to have some nasty volunteer or employee or whatever they are rudely bark orders at me while they sit in their chair staring at the donation line. I don't particularly care about their personal circumstances just as they don't know or care about mine.

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Anonymous wrote:Ok OP I don't think your post is that bad and I am sorry people are being so snarky to you. In ANY kind of setting, I get annoyed by rude people who are rude for no reason at all! Feel free to write a letter explaining you won't be donating anymore because of your experience.

And yes, perhaps that person had some kind of silent temporary disability which did not allow her to help you... but to all the haters, she could have just said "I'm so sorry, I can't do any heavy lifting right now. I see you can't either. Let me see if someone else can help us."

Is that THAT hard people!? Why are you all bashing OP. Jeez.

Your sockpuppeting is very obvious.

I thought everyone was being pretty rough on her, too. Big pile-on. I imagine OP knows she came off the wrong way in her post.
For over a year now, things have been very hard for people, OP. Don’t take anything personally right now. A lot of folks’ behavior has become less than pleasant for a myriad of reasons. Who knows if the people with whom you interact daily have lost one or more loved ones or friends to covid? Clearly you’ve been through a lot recently. Maybe stop doing errands like this until you feel 100%?

Anonymous wrote:Ok OP I don't think your post is that bad and I am sorry people are being so snarky to you. In ANY kind of setting, I get annoyed by rude people who are rude for no reason at all! Feel free to write a letter explaining you won't be donating anymore because of your experience.

And yes, perhaps that person had some kind of silent temporary disability which did not allow her to help you... but to all the haters, she could have just said "I'm so sorry, I can't do any heavy lifting right now. I see you can't either. Let me see if someone else can help us."

Is that THAT hard people!? Why are you all bashing OP. Jeez.

Your sockpuppeting is very obvious.

Ok OP I don't think your post is that bad and I am sorry people are being so snarky to you. In ANY kind of setting, I get annoyed by rude people who are rude for no reason at all! Feel free to write a letter explaining you won't be donating anymore because of your experience.

And yes, perhaps that person had some kind of silent temporary disability which did not allow her to help you... but to all the haters, she could have just said "I'm so sorry, I can't do any heavy lifting right now. I see you can't either. Let me see if someone else can help us."

Is that THAT hard people!? Why are you all bashing OP. Jeez.

Donation centers are very picky, at least in NOVA.

I always chalked it up to the fact that many people live in very small living spaces (1,000 sq. ft. townhomes, condos, etc.) and they shed stuff like mad when they move to the area. I know we did -- we literally donated half our things when we moved from another state. We didn't want to pay for storage. Yes, donation center people would turn stuff away and they could be rather gruff. Because there were ten cars in line behind me, all full of stuff.

Why are you buying so much crap you don’t need, barely using it, and then donating it, on such a scale you’re frequently dropping off multiple boxes of items??

It’s the DMV! Everyone’s rude here.