To think this is a shocking comment to make?

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when i was at the checkout at the supermarket last week,the checkout assistant was chatting away as they do when she happend to notice lots of my shopping had the 'tickled pink' slogan on,she then said "oh i hate that charity they get far too much money thrown at them"
I couldnt believe it! why on earth would somebody hate a charity!

YANBU!

That could have really been a foot in mouth occasion for her as you could well have been suffering from this cancer!

how can you possibly hate a charity that supports people with cancer

My thoughts exactly,i really had never heard anything like it!
I have already decided i wont be going to her again

I'm not in the UK, but is that a breast cancer charity? I have heard similar comments here (Canada) that breast cancer gets far too much exposure and takes away from other diseases.

Hmmmmm. I am not a supporter of MacMillan, controversial I know, and refuse to sponsor people raising money for them or support them myself as they badly let my dad down when he was dying. I appreciate this is not most people's experience of them and I am perhaps being a bit harsh, but that was the outcome of my only personal experience of them and I can't help but be influenced by it.

Just because an organisation is a charity, you don't have to like the way they operate.

Yanbu.

I personally dislike the 'pink' campaign (cancer isn't pink and fluffy/flipping bras, etc), but the charity itself is great.

YABU As a friend puts it 'Everyone is entitled to their opinion, even if they're wrong.'

I work in the charity sector and there are loads I dislike for various reasons. And loads I think are awesome.

I feel like that about the RSPCA... but I would try to keep quiet about it, certainly the woman should have to a customer.

Terrible thing to actually say.

I suspect (speculation) that it was her incredibly insensitive and inartuiculate way of expressing her dismay that some charities recieve significantly greater support (finanial and otherwise) than other equally worthy charities.

Should have kept her mouth firmly shut though.

Also, for the record, there is a lot of dislike about the "pink" campaign re breast cancer because it does obviously effecdt men as well as women and many feel that the "pink" thing totally excludes men.

I don't like the PDSA at all... I don't feel unreasonabe having a negative feeling about a charity

Hate is a strong word, and she probably didn't really mean that she hates that charity.

I particularly dislike Comic Relief for simelar reasons.

She does have a point though, the pink fluffyness became very fasionable and so took over too much of the cancer market. It does take money away from other charities. There are plenty of other equally deserving, and maybe even more deserving cancers.

She was being very rude for commenting on a customers shopping when she should have just been getting on with her job though.

Lack of training imo. Shop assistants aren't supposed to be making personal comments like that. I know I sound old-fashioned but companies skimp on training and that's the result you get. I'd have a word with her manager iiwy, laying it on that the girl clearly hasn't been trained properly - she wouldn't have said anything like that if she had. It's nice to be chatty/friendly but they have to know that they are serving the public in a professional capacity, not chatting to a mate.

We british don't like complaining - well, that's not true, some make up for the majority LOL - but you could do it with a shit-sandwich re complimentary about her service, observation about her inappropriate comment, complimemtary about the company.

She was tactless for saying it, but she is entitled to her opinion. Could be she is upset her dad died from prostate cancer which gets a lot less coverage or something, you wouldn't know that - just as she wouldn't know that you/your mum/whoever had been diagnosed with breast cancer.

I feel like that about the RSPCA too lying, but although I say that often on here I wouldn't dream of saying it to a customer in an unrelated environment and neither should that sales assistant.

Yes, she was rude, especially if you had los of it in your basket, it clearly means something to you.
However, I think it's perfectly reasonable to dislike a particular charity. As others have said, the RSPCA and the one in the OP spring to mind.

Personally, I won't give money for cancer research (or any other medical research) as I don't believe in testing on animals, even for medical purposes. I certainly wouldn't bang on about it to customers though!

I agree with the sentiment.

But I wouldn't SAY that to a supporter.

have you ever done business with a charity? One or two of them cross the line from being 'hard-nosed' to being downright crooked and lacking in inegrity .

I agree with what she said, however it's not really something I would share with a supporter.

Not shocking - she's allowed to think what she likes.

But definitely rude. She's not allowed to say what she likes to a customer, it's unprofessional. And in this case, very rude and possibly hurtful if someone was a supporter because they had good memories of the charity supporting a loved one through a terrible time...

I agree it's a training issue, not a moral one.

I hope it wasnt in asda,its one of the charities they support, i have a tickled pink t-shirt that i wore when i went shopping the other day and the woman that served me was wearing the same one..... i dont know who had it worse, me wearing the same t-shirt as the 'collegue' or her wearing the same t-shirt as a 24 week pregnant woman

well i dislike NSPCC especially their adverts mute TV everytime its on and really inappropiate for children they actually do really good stuff but it really puts me off and negates the good by being crashly insensitive

but whether shop assistant or whatever you don't comment negatively on customers or clients you can however use it as positive starting point for chat