I was just watching a nationwide insurance ad during the golf tournament.
They were bragging about how their employees volunteer at charity events all over the place.

We are strongly encouraged by my employer to do charity work at company sponsored events.
we're also encouraged to list our charity work on our reviews. ( a cynical person could say so they can claim credit for it. )

I think how you spend your time and money on charities is a very personal choice.
I prefer to keep that boundary between work and private a hard line.
It's bad enough with remote dial in and cell phone numbers on call that work is almost a 24/7 .
But where and if I spend time on charity it's my business.

Am I alone?
who do others feel?

 

I agree with you. That's just BS that they are bragging. It's none of their business what people volunteer to do.

 

I totally agree with you as well, where you give and how you give, for most of us, is very personal and to hell with the corp!

 

Lots of companies push the charity work or include it in an announcement of an employee's promotion....patting themselves on the back for having such giving employees.

I don't have time to do charity for work. I do plenty of charity work already. I babysit for my grandkids for free every weekend, I feed them too, and man can they eat lately. Wonder if I should add this to my resume.

 

When I was working, those of us at a "certain" salary level were "urged" to give a considerable (for me) sum each year to the United Way. Though it was never said in so many words, if you didn't give your share you would hear about it in your next review.

 

Same where I worked; probably still is.

 

We had that going on at General Dynamics/Convair Division as well. Oh, and also the same pressure to buy US savings bonds. They wanted to say the department had 100% participation.

 

When I worked for Abbott they requested that we "tythe" to the United Way. Never did as I prefer to give directly to a charity of my choice. I guess that is why I never got that far up the management chain.

 

I agree. That said, I mentor and tutor various groups of students. The decision to do so is totally mine, and really has nothing to do with my employer. I just happen to do it while using their facilities. As for cash donations, I donate to charities of my own choosing. And I don't recall ever feeling pressured to donate time or money to any charity by my employer.

 

I work for a large regulated utility. The local newspaper reported about a day of testimony before the regulatory commission about the "corporate citizenship": contributions to local political issue campaigns, to downtown gentrification projects, volunteerism at the schools in the city where the headquarters are located, etc. Like any of that should carry any weight at all in determining the fair price of electric service...

My own pet peeve is that these corporate gifts and employee contributions (whether money or time) tend to be concentrated in the city where the headquarters building is located, rather than in the suburbs where many of us live... Charity should begin at home.