[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Some of the big charities are awful for guilt tripping. I've had someone shout after me (as I avoid High Street charity salesmen like they're angry bears); "Oh so you don't care about kids with cancer then, that's nice!".

Big companies for all sorts of things are just as bad really, though. Angry official-seeming letters, completely false legal threats, debt collection threats, often for bills that have actually been paid, and all you get when you call is "Oh sorry, administrative error". I just get pissed off with these things now but a few years ago, when a demand for £100 "immediately" was an insurmountable ask, they used to make me pretty anxious. Which is crap even if you DO owe money. When you actually don't and it's "just an error" it's just not on.

..with my friend and it was quite a few years ago now, the training which I think was around a month and based away so he was away from home, involved trying to make conversation with the person called to offer insurance and then picking up on things found out, like if that person was living alone, so many fears would be emphasised to make them afraid and things like that and make them feel that these insurances were something that they couldn't possibly live without even though the questions they were asked also made it obvious that they couldn't afford the insurances either...he was totally depressed at the thought of having to actually do the job, which went against everything he believed to be right but thankfully he was offered another job while he was doing the training and accepted that one straight away ...