Home Depot Criticized For Pledging $10 Billion To American Cancer Society

noahmijo

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Thu Jun-15-06 07:29 AM
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Home Depot Criticized For Pledging $10 Billion To American Cancer Society

SAN DIEGO�Home Depot has come under fire from cancer patients, baseball fans, and Padres players for the company's recent "heartless and insulting" offer to donate "$10 billion in cash" to the American Cancer Society each time a Padres player hits a home run for the rest of the 2006 season. "This outrageous offer of 'charity' is a slap in the face to our organization," said Jay Czarnecki, a spokesman for the ACS. "Having your donation depend upon a San Diego player hitting a baseball over 300 feet through the air is not only placing unfair and unrealistic expectations on the Padres, but is equivalent to telling everyone who has cancer to go off and die." Czarnecki suggested that, if Home Depot truly supports the research and eradication of a disease that kills millions of Americans every year, they should pledge a dollar for each time a Padre strikes out or commits an error.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/49527

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Thu Jun-15-06 07:33 AM
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1. Hahaha...

Oh man. As I was reading this my jaw was on the floor, until I saw that it was an Onion link. How sad is it that I didn't put it past a company to try this.

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fasttense

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Thu Jun-15-06 07:36 AM
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2. I don't see the insult.

Edited on Thu Jun-15-06 07:37 AM by fasttense

Frequently with pledge drives they base their giving on if the drive can raise X number of dollars in X number of hours. After the dollars and hours are calculated, the giver frequently matches the contribution. No one finds this insulting. Nor do they find it insulting when people offer to walk for a donation and people pledge X number of dollars for each mile. There are a lot of donations made contingent on some outside event. Why is this one insulting? I think I'm missing something.

Oops, I didn't notice the link

Never mind!!!!!!!

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Thu Jun-15-06 08:05 AM
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3. "I think I'm missing something."

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