I woke up this morning to some gossip from - 23 Oct 2025 - (417 words) - Jaynes Baby Bank
I woke up this morning to some gossip from another charity shop.
Not the one that I used to work in, but a charity shop nearby where I used to work.
Now, I'm in contact with some of my regulars at my old job, and they messaged me to let me know that the new manager lasted 10 days.
10 days in this charity shop.
This charity shop cannot keep a manager down.
They cannot keep a manager down.
The manager before that maybe also lasted a couple of weeks, maybe?
Corporate are greedy.
And they're ruining the charity retail space.
And they're hounding their managers.
I know that they're constantly calling their managers, being like, Why haven't you sold enough lottery tickets?
Because we don't want to fucking buy the lottery ticket in the charity shop, bruv.
That's why!
Oh my god!
And charity retail is about to collapse because corporate are greedy fucking bastards.
Now, I know, I know that the charity shop is to raise money for the charity.
But when you start adding all these extra things, things also like pushing lottery tickets is weird.
And I don't think that it's ethical.
Like, I just think it's bizarre and I don't think you should be doing it.
Charity shops aren't like charity shops anymore.
They're like normal retail spaces.
You see this with cancer research.
They're closing all their local high street shops to make giant super stores that are mostly full of shitty nukers anyway.
And if you want charity shops to run like they have targets, you want them to be peddling nukers, you want them to be peddling fucking lottery tickets, and you want people to round up their purchases at the till, then you need to create breathing room.
And you need to create a space where donors and donations go somewhere else because they can't do it all.
They can't do everything.
Okay?
We can't fucking do everything.
Perhaps, perhaps, you should stop paying people in corporate so fucking much.
You should stop paying the CEO so fucking much.
We should go back to like actually helping the local community.
Okay?
Being a retail worker, having to push extra shit on top of already getting negativity from donors, from customers, already getting shat on because of the prices that you guys set.
It's too fucking hard.
You're making it hard for us.
You're making it hard for your workers.
Oh my god.
Charity retail is going to collapse and it's...
Not the one that I used to work in, but a charity shop nearby where I used to work.
Now, I'm in contact with some of my regulars at my old job, and they messaged me to let me know that the new manager lasted 10 days.
10 days in this charity shop.
This charity shop cannot keep a manager down.
They cannot keep a manager down.
The manager before that maybe also lasted a couple of weeks, maybe?
Corporate are greedy.
And they're ruining the charity retail space.
And they're hounding their managers.
I know that they're constantly calling their managers, being like, Why haven't you sold enough lottery tickets?
Because we don't want to fucking buy the lottery ticket in the charity shop, bruv.
That's why!
Oh my god!
And charity retail is about to collapse because corporate are greedy fucking bastards.
Now, I know, I know that the charity shop is to raise money for the charity.
But when you start adding all these extra things, things also like pushing lottery tickets is weird.
And I don't think that it's ethical.
Like, I just think it's bizarre and I don't think you should be doing it.
Charity shops aren't like charity shops anymore.
They're like normal retail spaces.
You see this with cancer research.
They're closing all their local high street shops to make giant super stores that are mostly full of shitty nukers anyway.
And if you want charity shops to run like they have targets, you want them to be peddling nukers, you want them to be peddling fucking lottery tickets, and you want people to round up their purchases at the till, then you need to create breathing room.
And you need to create a space where donors and donations go somewhere else because they can't do it all.
They can't do everything.
Okay?
We can't fucking do everything.
Perhaps, perhaps, you should stop paying people in corporate so fucking much.
You should stop paying the CEO so fucking much.
We should go back to like actually helping the local community.
Okay?
Being a retail worker, having to push extra shit on top of already getting negativity from donors, from customers, already getting shat on because of the prices that you guys set.
It's too fucking hard.
You're making it hard for us.
You're making it hard for your workers.
Oh my god.
Charity retail is going to collapse and it's...