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1. Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 03-Feb-2023 00:58:17 EST Ji Fu
   Please help Zebedee by purchasing Girl Scout Cookies tinyurl.com/ZgirlScout
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Feb-2023 19:46:28 EST lnxw48a1

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      @fu Interesting. In $EMPLOYER, such solicitations are prohibited, but today an employee of another government agency indirectly asked me to support his daughter by buying GS cookies.
      
      I'm reminded of Phil, who was a regular customer of a store where I worked. Phil had four daughters. He knew where all the employees lived, and he would bring each daughter individually to your door to sell you cookies.
      
      Sometimes, he'd come to the store and hit up employees and other customers.
      
      I didn't mind it, except that we were making $50-$100 per week before deductions and he was making much more. The cookies weren't expensive, but taken together, they were still enough to cause a little pain for a week.
      1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Feb-2023 19:50:36 EST lnxw48a1

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         @fu Re-reading that, it sounds almost like I'm accusing you of pressuring us. That is not my intent. I'm just relating a story from my past.
         
         No accusations or offense intended.
         1. Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 06-Feb-2023 12:42:23 EST Ji Fu

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            @LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} none taken. I heard a story from a brother Knight last week that his boss was teasing him with his own paycheck whilst asking him to join the Knights of Columbus, some 50 years ago.