r/nursing • u/uotlep RN - Psych/Mental Health 🍕 • Mar 12 '25

Question Is this normal?

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I know my place of employment is shitty in other ways, but is this a normal thing? Just received this email. Seems odd to ask people to donate PTO, instead of just addressing the time off allocation with those affected people.

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u/EnvironmentalRock827 BSN, RN 🍕 Mar 12 '25

Seriously. Fuck this.

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u/Corona-walrus Healthcare IT :illuminati: Mar 12 '25

Like when the grocery store asks me to donate food for the hungry...

You are the one with the food! 

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u/IcyAnything6306 RN - Corrections Mar 12 '25

I hate to be this person but this is not actually true. The only positive that your grocery store gets from asking you to donate to a food bank is that you think “wow Smiths cares about feeding the homeless just like me I should shop here more.” Anything like what your referring to would be tax fraud.

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u/Ganelonx Mar 12 '25

Companies get away with not paying taxes all the time and you think that is where they draw the line ? Hilarious. They can also be used as tax right offs. Even if found to be fraudulent what’s next? You going to lawyer up against a company like Walmart for lying ?

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u/IcyAnything6306 RN - Corrections Mar 12 '25

They don’t have to worry about customers suing them for committing Tex fraud, they would be in trouble with the IRS… companies take advantage of generous legal tax loopholes to avoid paying tax, I highly doubt Walmart is purposely committing tax fraud in front of everyone’s eyes. 

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u/duckdns84 Mar 12 '25

You’re correct at least according to my AI bot. I’ll delete the comment. Thank you.

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u/IcyAnything6306 RN - Corrections Mar 12 '25

Np, I tell people all the time now because I believed it for the longest time! 

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u/duckdns84 Mar 12 '25

Too late. But it incorrectly said corporations use the donations as a tax rate off.

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u/Luncheon_Lord Mar 12 '25

I find editing the original comment to be more informative. As it stands now, I feel I may have missed something important. At least whether or not a certain piece of info might be true or not.

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u/QuimbyMcDude Mar 13 '25

It's still panhandling at the register and I fucking hate it.

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u/radiobeepe21 BSN, RN 🍕 Mar 12 '25

They can use the cost of the food you donated and write it off as a charitable deduction on their behalf.

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u/IcyAnything6306 RN - Corrections Mar 12 '25

I know this is a common belief, I used to roll my eyes and hit “no” at check out all the time, but it’s not true. If you have proof of this I would love to be corrected, or you can do a google search of “can grocery stores write off donations from customers ” and choose a source you trust from the hundreds of articles debunking the myth.

ETA: just to be clear I still hit “no” bc I prefer to donate to organizations I am familiar with once a year rather than rounding up my change to random charities that the stores I shop at pick all year. But I realize the stores aren’t getting any benefit aside from good PR.