A coworker's wife is doing a 3 day breast cancer walk. He feels funny asking people for money to sponsor her so
he comes up with creative ways to raise the money. This year he held a 50-50, 5 dollars gets you 6 tickets, He
collected $200. When I bought my 50-50 tickets I told him to keep them and if I won his wife could have the
whole pot. The drawing is tomorrow and the rest of my coworkers say I'm nuts for giving up the chance at a quick
$100. I will not ask for the tickets but, did I do the right thing?

A coworker's wife is doing a 3 day breast cancer walk. He feels funny asking people for money to sponsor her so
he comes up with creative ways to raise the money. This year he held a 50-50, 5 dollars gets you 6 tickets, He
collected $200. When I bought my 50-50 tickets I told him to keep them and if I won his wife could have the
whole pot. The drawing is tomorrow and the rest of my coworkers say I'm nuts for giving up the chance at a quick
$100. I will not ask for the tickets but, did I do the right thing?


Thats not nuts at all...nice job...very admirable on your part....

A coworker's wife is doing a 3 day breast cancer walk. He feels funny asking people for money to sponsor her so
he comes up with creative ways to raise the money. This year he held a 50-50, 5 dollars gets you 6 tickets, He
collected $200. When I bought my 50-50 tickets I told him to keep them and if I won his wife could have the
whole pot. The drawing is tomorrow and the rest of my coworkers say I'm nuts for giving up the chance at a quick
$100. I will not ask for the tickets but, did I do the right thing?
your decision to let her keep any winnings is a good thing, especially since she'd doing the walk. hopefully she wins. you contributed to the raffle which you probably would have done, prize or no prize.

I knew I worked with a bunch of cads.  ;D

You're right Mike, I would have donated anyway. For me it was never a question to hand over the tickets
but when everyone started chiding me I started to question whether I was doing the right thing.

Kevin...karma to you for that good deed. If I had more money, that is one organization I would support, as my mother, grandma, and aunt are ALL breast cancer survivors. You did a good thing. ;)

That is a very good deed that you did :)

I think you did a wonderful thing. Very, very nice!  :) :) :)

I think you have shown your co-workers what its like to be generous and if they are too shallow to follow your lead, than ignore them. Karma to you.



Cat

Shame on them for being so callous.  I commend you for doing the right thing.  Even if the person insisted I take the tickets, if I won, I'd turn around and donate the winnings right back in their name. O0

I think you have shown your co-workers what its like to be generous and if they are too shallow to follow your lead, than ignore them. Karma to you.



Cat

I echo that statement!
It is so refreshing to know that there are still people in this world that aren't self-absorbed and self-serving!
Karma to you Kevin!

(and now I hope you win so that none of your co-workers get to walk away with the extra cash!)  ;D 8)

Here's another Karma from me - you did more than the right thing!  Like Cat said, I hope your co-workers will learn from your example!

Thanks all, bad news, my tickets didn't win, oh well.  :(

One of the office workers hit and yes, he took the money.