Colleague- possible charity scammer

[DotCommunist]

Let us not leap into judgement, perhaps it did go to church.

If she never comes back to work I'd say guilty. I mean if you were guilty this would be about the time ytou realised the game was up. Time to take in some scottish air maybe, perhaps spain.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Dare you forward her reply to everyone asking her why she gave the money to Lady at Church

 

[Threshers_Flail]

Nothing to add other than this thread has been well entertaining.

 

[D'wards]

I have alerted another manager who is a real "go-getter" so action will now be taken.

I'll keep you all posted...

 

[DotCommunist]

get your court suit dry cleaned

 

[The Boy]

court suit

Is that the one with the brown trousers?

 

[kebabking]

My manager kind of shirked it, so me and a colleague got the address off the Children in need website to obtain the certificate and I emailed it to the team, saying we could display the certificate.

She replied, just to me, and I quote

"As I have already given the money in a lady at church and she has paid it with hers and two other person
I did not think I can get a certificate"

That's about as convincing as a giraffe in dark glasses trying to get into a Polar Bears only nightclub.

It stinks. Stinky, stinky, stinky-pants.

 

[existentialist]

My manager kind of shirked it, so me and a colleague got the address off the Children in need website to obtain the certificate and I emailed it to the team, saying we could display the certificate.

She replied, just to me, and I quote

"As I have already given the money in a lady at church and she has paid it with hers and two other person
I did not think I can get a certificate"

That's quite clever, because it will be almost impossible to determine the sums involved without demanding that the church lady "give evidence under oath"

In the light of what you've said about your employer's policy, I think that the next time she comes swanning around the office rattling tins, a few fairly pointed questions need to be asked of her. I suspect she'll very quickly see which way the wind is blowing, and you won't hear from her again.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I reckon she’s definitely at it. Some brass neck!

 

[DotCommunist]

not sure about that exi, thats not the sort of sums that would just be fed through the collection plates. My church (mas church really) is registered as a charity itself, iirc something to dowith people getting tax breaks on large donations. So surely a paper trail there is

 

[keybored]

"lady at church" seems kind of interchangeable with "bloke down the pub" now.

 

[friedaweed]

 

[Sapphireblue]

best case scenario is she's been pretending to someone else that the amounts raised by your whole office have come from just her.

 

[nogojones]

best case scenario is she's been pretending to someone else that the amounts raised by your whole office have come from just her.

Or she's just giving the cash to her church rather than the charitys she's suposed to be raising for

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Or she’s simply just keeping it for herself.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

She’s obviously attended the Jeffrey Archer school of charity collection; or that of his father.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Anyway - fucking children in need were clogging up the station today, with a twat in a pudsey outfit and shitty music ruining it for passengers. Cunts.

 

[Threshers_Flail]

I did this when I was about 7-8. Told my parents and all my family that we were raising money in school and pocketed the lot, think it was about £25.

 

[High Voltage]

Anyway - fucking children in need were clogging up the station today, with a twat in a pudsey outfit and shitty music ruining it for passengers. Cunts.

One. Little Shove.

 

[High Voltage]

And I think children in fucking need has probably a better meter to it

 

[Treacle Toes]

Or she's just giving the cash to her church rather than the charitys she's suposed to be raising for

They could be having a collection at church for CiN and she has helped with that.

She could be collecting for the church but be lying because she knows that CiN provokes more donations.

Proper dodgey never to have any receipts or feedback for those who you collect from though.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

One. Little Shove.

Nah - they were cluttering up the concourse and causing noise pollution within the music.

 

[TopCat]

People who relentlessly collect for charity at work live for the thank you letters and certificates that get given out.
This situation is obvs theft.
Tenner to the charity if I'm wrong.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Tenner to the charity if I'm wrong.

I don't mind passing the plate round

 

[farmerbarleymow]

People who relentlessly collect for charity at work live for the thank you letters and certificates that get given out.
This situation is obvs theft.
Tenner to the charity if I'm wrong.

I agree - it sounds questionable and things don't add up.

 

[existentialist]

not sure about that exi, thats not the sort of sums that would just be fed through the collection plates. My church (mas church really) is registered as a charity itself, iirc something to dowith people getting tax breaks on large donations. So surely a paper trail there is

But they'd have to get the - probably mythical - "church lady" to say anything.

I am sure this wasn't calculated, but charitygirl has played a blinder here - the only way to get her bang to rights is to behave, and appear, like a bunch of really oppressive and uncharitable types. We know the cause is just, but it'll be hard to paint it right.

Better to start with a clean slate, with plenty of "we know what you've been up to" side-eye, and scare the shit out of the scamming little piece of work.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Ask the managers to send a round-robin that summarises the policy on this and which underlines the part about providing evidence etc. Encourage them to also explicitly say that any collections that don't follow these guidelines will be investigated and referred to the necessary authorities.

Maybe-Scam-lady will stop immediately if that is what she has been doing.

 

[TopCat]

It's a huge breach of trust. Akin to stealing purses from colleagues.

 

[friedaweed]

I don't mind passing the plate round

I could take that into my church when you're ready.

 

[TopCat]

She will absent herself from work if it's looked into. The charities if approached take matters such as this very seriously and have well used systems for checking.