MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Ugh, please spare me.

> A friend of mine works for this company, and his company got the idea of finding some
> random hard working person and giving them $500, and he got the task to get it done,
> fair enough.
> ...
> This thing was MONTHS ago, and if he posts one more new article about it on his
> facebook I'm going to barf. And every post generates EVERYBODY replying what a
> wonderful, generous, beautiful human being he is; that HE is.
> ...
> Every story has this dude front and center talking about how he just loves to help
> out his fellow man, and how good he feels at night knowing he made a difference.
> They've created a monster. Dude, you're killing it. Your company PAID you to go out
> and give this money away with cameras rolling... can you suck any harder on the
> douche bag?

They need to go look at the recipient, to see what difference that $500 really made, to see if they really "made a difference" at all.
That amount of money might pay a bill and buy a couple weeks worth of food here. It goes farther in other places, but after four months, you can be pretty sure she's in the same condition she was back then.

"Making a difference" money starts in the tens of thousands, when it can pay mortgages, settle debts, or put someone through school. Maybe even little enough to get them reliable transportation to a job, if they aren't too bad off.