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This is a link post Just gotta hope there's few of you out there more generous than bankers!! I made this!
I work for a bank and organised and took part in a charity bike ride with my company and another bank in the local area. Sadly, despite this being sent out to several hundred people, only 3 people donated from my company.

Here's a bit of experimental footage I took with a camcorder and a home made bracket to mount it on the handlebars. Watermark is there because I haven't decided about buying the software yet.

I don't mind if you don't, but if you feel like it, please give your contributions via the following just giving site. It's a great cause for a charity that does great work in my local area:
www.justgiving.com/PooleBNYMBikeRide

P.S. Stop watching when the video stops. I failed to crop the audio so it just keeps running. Also, if there's any dodgy English/grammar, it's cos I'm drunk and struggling with typing!!
(I helped save b3ta! more balanced than jeremy beadle It wasn't me..., Wed 30 Jun 2010, 22:52, Reply)
This is a normal post I find people donate at work
based on who you are, how liked you are
not on their chosen profession. Bankers = evil blah.
Look in the mirror.
 (I helped save b3ta! SleeplessAndy SleeplessAndy, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 23:11, Reply)
This is a normal post good point
I raised over £40k, half of which was down to the bank's policy of matched giving, over about three years of marathons. £100 was from a guy who just stopped me on the street to see why I was carrying a rhinocerous head.

Not to take the previous poster's aggressive stance (making a change round here) but it's not the industry, it's the people.
 (pounana Slept well, and dreamed of large women, on, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 23:20, Reply)
This is a normal post Thanks.
What are you trying to say here? I get on very well with people on my current team and keep in touch with people from teams I have worked on in the past. I even get invited out on team nights out for teams I have not worked on for the last 3 years. Am I an antisocial reject? That's your opinion.

I don't know why my event failed to get the support that previous events have. It could be because there have been a lot of them recently and people are a little fed up with dropping change into envelopes. I don't know.

What do you think I can do in terms of being a 'banker'?! I have a job. I'm lucky. I work in IT. Am I a wanker because I'm a banker?! Did I cause the credit crunch?! I'm am right down at the bottom of the rung on this one. I thought that since this a good charity it deserves a bit more support, so I thought I'd post it here on the off-chance that maybe one or two of you might donate a couple of quid. Sorry if that was a mistake. I think your assumption about me and my friends makes you a cunt.
 (I helped save b3ta! more balanced than jeremy beadle It wasn't me..., Wed 30 Jun 2010, 23:30, Reply)
This is a normal post He wasn't saying that bankers are evil
The addition of "blah" implies that the statement "bankers = evil" was sarcasm. He was challenging your original assertion that there was a link between the poor donations for your event and the fact that the people in question were bankers. He was saying that the fact that they are bankers is neither here nore there.

Generally, though, IT people in large organisations of any sort are not well liked.
 (Vlad the Inhaler forgot his password, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 7:58, Reply)
This is a normal post I say!
That's a bit harsh there!
 (I helped save b3ta! giftedweasel forgot what he was going to type on, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 23:31, Reply)
This is a normal post Thank you!
That last post has really annoyed me, and is possibly the first time that an internet post has really got under my skin to the point where it actually upsets me a bit. This is also the first time since becoming a member of B3TA that I have put somebody on ignore!

Edit: I'll ignore him tomorrow! Ignoring tonight means I can't see any reaction from nice folk out there!
 (I helped save b3ta! more balanced than jeremy beadle It wasn't me..., Wed 30 Jun 2010, 23:39, Reply)
This is a normal post I suspect that people at work
donate depending on how much they think other people are donating. I don't think anyone is going to go out of their way to donate without being pestered and seeing other people donating first.

Let's face it, people at work are usually colleagues, not friends, so I suspect popularity doesn't have that much to do with it.
 (I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Wed 30 Jun 2010, 23:51, Reply)
This is a normal post I think you're right
The mistake here was not going with the form that goes around the team with people having to commit before passing on to the next person. People had a layer of anonymity with the online donation site, but you can't really do a retrospective sponsorship form. Technology is not necessarily the way forward for work based charity!!
 (I helped save b3ta! more balanced than jeremy beadle It wasn't me..., Wed 30 Jun 2010, 23:58, Reply)
This is a normal post Sometimes I get peeved with
the shear number of charitable requests at work. I work in a huge department 250 staff, plus another 200 or so people who come in for 1 day a week, so there's normally several charity things going on at any one time - yet if you fail to pay up people look at you like you're some scrooge type.

I don't mind the ones like this so much, but the ones that are "pay up for me to have a free holiday cycling the great wall of china or walking in Nepal" etc REALLY piss me off - esp when theres a couple of people at work who do this every year. A free holiday and only a small amount actually goes to the cause...

rant over. sorry.
 (jugglinbob Not giving a damn since:, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 0:47, Reply)
This is a normal post Totally agree
hence the non aggressive nature of the original post. I put it up for two reasons. First because it's the first time I've played around with the new camera and it's home-bodged bracket, and second on the off-chance that somebody might feel inclined to donate. I don't really mind if anyone does or doesn't (although I'm grateful if they do!!) it was just a bit of fun for a good cause and a nice day out for all involved, and it didn't cost anyone (other than me) a penny.
 (I helped save b3ta! more balanced than jeremy beadle It wasn't me..., Thu 1 Jul 2010, 1:17, Reply)
This is a normal post it's the bystander effect or social loafing
if someone is lying in the street, clearly in trouble, yet there are hundreds of other people around walking by, the majority will walk on by and not offer help...

therefore, if you send an email to 300 people, the majority will ignore it, assuming that the others will put in some money... If you send the email to 10 people, a higher percentage of that group will donate.

if you did it like this and they still didn't donate, they're probably just tight bastards.
 (I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 2:33, Reply)