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It’s all fun and games until homeless person damages the hotel room and you end up on the hook. For that reason, I’m out.
Why not, uh, use your points for yourself, than take what you would have spent on that room and donate it to charity?
Okay BRAVO for this. Reality check since I came into consulting and made more than I ever have in my life. I did a year is service AmeriCorps (yes, I realize half the people reading it don’t know what it is so trying to create awareness) making 10k/year right out of college in Austin, TX. I worked with a NFP that specialized in placing homeless youth with jobs and getting them to continue into some form of getting an education.
Not to turn this on me but my point is that your heart is in the right place and you should follow it. Consulting can be soul consuming and it’s easy to get caught up in money and prestige - I’m guilty of that. It’s a good reality check to level yourself and want to make a difference. Please keep us updated on next steps if you pursue this or DM me if you’d like to talk more.
Thanks for yours as well!!
I commend your effort to pay it forward to this individual. I sit on the board of a non profit that feeds the hungry and homeless through food pantries and soup kitchens. We also have homes throughout neighborhoods that will shelter them if they display good behavior. We help them get their life back on track starting with getting the proper identification and giving them the means to have the necessary social interaction with people.
Your heart is in the right place, but the best way to help is to grab as many of those soaps, shampoos, and lotions as you can and donate them to your local shelter. Ask the front desk for extra on a daily basis and donate all of them.
I don’t see any major hotel chain putting their guests safety at risk with a program like this. It’s a great thought, but just too risky.
Just saw this article and thought of this post. I am also a big fan of donating the extra toiletries from hotels, but it looks like more and more hotels are moving to larger, non-travel size bottles. Will this have a large negative impact for your non-profit and how can we continue to help? https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/29/business/marriott-eliminating-plastic-toiletries-trnd/index.html
yeah i actually would be interested
It’s extraordinary how uninformed the average American appears to be about people experiencing homelessness. The assumption that “they’ll invite a bunch of homeless people over to do crack and have a rager” has to be one of the stupidest things I’ve ever read. My guess is you don’t paint with quite that broad a brush when talking about other groups of people (races, genders, socioeconomic classes, etc), and that if you just sat down and talked to 3-4 people who have to spend tonight on the street you’d be embarrassed you said that.
slalom, i never once claimed the arguments i laid out were my ideas - understand there are a lot of words in my post but if you read, you should be able to pull that insight out. (or is that just an mbb thing too?) i was attempting to lay out the myriad data points on why enabling homeless people to have access to longterm housing benefits capitalism (which i believed was one of your core arguments - i’m paraphrasing here but something like “others have worked their ass off to rise so why should we help those who aren’t able to do the same”). i admittedly do nothing to help the homeless. i think OPs idea is commendable. empathy is a characteristic that is lost by many (present company perhaps included). i’m simply saying from a macro economic perspective it may not have the longterm benefits required to wean a population off near complete government dependence (which i had thought would resonate with you)
I would never give up my hotel points
Haven’t figured out the logistics, but I have to believe there is a way to make it work. I’m taking some time this long weekend to figure out how to make it work
I mean they do it for airline miles with the Make-a-Wish foundation, why not hotel points?? (Alaska is the airline that I know does it but pretty sure United does it too)
Sometimes I’m asked by homeless people for cash as I leave the office. Instead of cash I always offer a meal, and go into a restaurant and let them pick what they want and I’ll pay. Makes me feel good and I know if they’re hungry they’ll eat versus spending on alcohol or cigarettes.
I use this approach too and surprisingly have been rejected more by a homeless person than taken up on the offer
Too many comments for me to read all of them but I will say I’d feel safer with a homeless person on my couch than some of the Catholic school boys I knew growing up.
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I did my time as a poor person now it’s my turn to stay at the ritz
Yes.
Am I an asshole for saying we should do some root cause analysis so we may eradicate the causes of homelessness rather than curing symptoms? Much more value to teach people how to fish than it is to give fish
Actually now that I think about it a bit more, correcting the causes of homelessness would require us to question some of the most fundamental ways we operate as a society and I realize that I don’t have much hope that we could ever get passed this dog eat dog mentality. I’ll just give a couple sandwiches and wish them the best, not worth my time to fight against the current when I have my own family to provide for.
Giving a room to homeless person may make his life one day easier. However with all the stench from his clothes including spare, it will be of inconvenience to the next guest. Think if the next guest is you, fresh sheets but smells like shit.
Giving points is noble, but there should be a way for others to buy those point for cheap for a hotel stay. That money should be used for a permanent location for homeless people to stay. Something that is long term and that they can call as HOME.
Temporary is not a solution but a permanent is one.
I love this, but the issue of chronic homelessness will only be solved with affordable housing, not 1-3 night stints in hotels. However, I would suggest you look into donating points to recently arrived refugees. Majority of refugees leave the airport and spend their first couple nights in a hotel.
I work with an organization where single moms with children are one illness, broken down car away from homelessness. When there is a need someone sends a FB post and we donate money where we can to get them into an extended stay hotel. The idea is a good one and if donated points could be applied to extended stays then this could be a big help.
The points idea was nice but also helped u got to know him so nothing sketchy under ur name. The meal though, think all of us with per diem can do that. Haven’t been in a city with many homeless for my projects in the last year but if I am will definitely do this. Thanks for the reminder OP
Definitely interested OP! Keep us posted what you think over the weekend. I will do the same.
For those curious, my roommate & fraternity brother wrote this. Its powerful
https://www.amazon.com/Homeless-but-Human-Life-Shelter-ebook/dp/B07H7ZG3FP
You paying for my room and only seeing the good in me.
Me at the mini bar:
I think you can bring this up with the hotel chain - to run a fundraising program through point donations. That said, materializing them in the form of hotel stays is, I think, not the best path forward as there are more efficient and lower risk alternatives. Maybe the hotel converts the donated points to cash in partnership with a shelter rather than house the folks themselves?