Dumb Customers

I work at the moment at this database company who primarily deal with charity contracts. They get outsourced from the charities when they run campaigns too big for them to collect all the money. It’s then our job to bank it and enter all the information, fun no?

We all know how aggressive these charities can sometimes be when collecting money but mostly that’s down to peoples stupidity when replying. There’s a well known example of this at work. There’s this guy who thinks it’s a clever way to get back at the charities by sending a penny in cash to every campaign. Thus, due to free post, costing the charities more. Problem is he never checks any of the data protection boxes and so gets registered as a donator and gets his details shared.

So now, instead of just ticking one box to stop the spam, due to his spite he’s getting his mail box filled with letters from pretty much every charity asking for another penny.

In my opinion that’s pretty dumb…