i made a small donation to the relief efforts for katrina victims, but i made a serious mistake in doing so. of course, i'm not saying i shouldn't have given money, but what i should've done is found a friend whose company had a matching donor program, and had the friend give the money on my behalf. you could make an argument that's unethical, and takes advantage of the generosity of certain corporations, but the argument's bullshit.
on a similar note, walmart, mcdonalds and ups have stopped paying regular wages to employees who can't get to work because they don't have scuba gear that would be necessary to get to their offices. apparently, they've decided that since they won't be making money in the new orleans area, no one should.
let me be the first to say how weak that is.
on walmart's page describing their relief efforts, they cite that they are delivering two trailers of water daily for the new orleans police force. WOW! maybe they're using the lost wages to fund the program.
i've never been one to extol the virtues of starbucks, but at least they've decided to keep cutting paychecks for disaster victims. of course, starbucks has nothing on their site saying they've done anything else. i'm guessing that's because they don't have anything else to say.
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