Disgusting

I work for an internet company. The thing about internet companies is they tend to dabble in a bit of this and a bit of that. Where I work, employee A has no idea what employee B is doing atthe other end of the office.

Me, I'm right in the middle, so I have a general sense about most our products. One of our bits of this (but not of that) is we were hired by a non-profit organization to increase the amount of blood it collected. Our program was very simple and basic; you donate enough blood and you get to pick an item off a website we're hosting. A prize for giving away your blood rather than sell it to make up companies.

Some people though, they don't care for an item and chose a "Nah, it's cool" option rather than get a gift. Which is such a waste for some many reasons. We didn't like the idea of unspent prizes though. We had to think of something useful to do with the people uniterested in prizes (that's right, fuck off altruism.)

I had the idea of putting a donation alternative for another charity that does a lot for children (many of whom I selfishly hope are lil bastardlings). It's a little institute called St. Judes. I got everything ready to go and was enjoying the warm glow I get now and then when I deviate from my bastardliness. But, what did the non-profit blood organization say?

No.

"If they're going to donate to anyone it should be to us."

Sorry kids! Try and get better so you can donate blood when (and if!) you get healthy--but until then you can fuck right off. Oh, and try to ignore the fact we sell your blood for a mininum of $80 a pint and that we recently increased the amount of blood gathered by almost double (thanks to an internet company incentive).

Greedy vampires. Might as well sell your blood folks. At least they're not hiding behind a comfortable facade of charity, you know, when it's convenient.