I'm slightly annoyed
that this couldn't have been next week's QOTW since tomorrow I start work on a telethon (which for my purposes is as good as a call-centre- ringing up rich old men and women and begging them to give money to the rich old college that nurtured them during their formative years.) However in the hopes that I will have a true, funny story of my own before the QOTW comes to an end, I give you one thing that happened to someone I know.

(1) We are supposed to offer other ways of donating, such as in wills and bequests etc near the end, and once my friend had got through most of their spiel, she was politely informed that the person she was phoning had terminal cancer. There was a deadly hush as she pondered what to say, and eventually on auto-pilot she blurted out that it was possible to donate after death.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 3 Sep 2009, 15:35, 4 replies)

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Ouch.
( Turquoise Hexagon Sun has just dropped acid on, Thu 3 Sep 2009, 15:43, closed)

My old uni phoned me up asking for money
cheeky cunts
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 3 Sep 2009, 15:50, closed)

I have a friend who did just this
for our uni. They paid the standard uni minimum wage, and all they were doing was calling up successful alumni and asking for a donation.

2 weeks of doing this? Cashed in over £100k. What a bloody bargain.
( Rookie You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel, Thu 3 Sep 2009, 16:01, closed)

we get paid
pretty well- about £9 hour, free accommodation.

Do they do this at all unis I wonder?
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 3 Sep 2009, 17:30, closed)