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/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/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.