Sunday, March 09, 2008
I want to kill someone from mypaper. Misquoted out of context again:
Tutor Shane Pereira, 28, an NUSS member for three years, said he only found out about the charges this year. He had assumed that the $15 charge was for a few empty red packets which the club gave him in January.
He said: "I think that is a rather sneaky move. If they would like members to contribute voluntarily, they should approach us personally and not make it an automatic mass payment."
Of course,
how convenient that she should
"forget" that I also said "But if they sent me emails and letters and I didn't notice,
then it's not their fault because they've done their legal part.
I have nothing to complain about in this case. They did their job." But of course, that didn't fit into the framework of her fucking article, now did it? And so, as a consequence of journalistic negligence, I've ended up sounding like a typical complaining Singaporean. Chao Chee Bai.
On principle however, she got what I said right. Could they have done the collection differently? Sure, because on principle this "auto-donation" goes against the very grain of donations which are supposed to be VOLUNTARY. This is not fucking
organ donation, it's MONEY. It's
HONGBAO. I don't have to fucking
OPT OUT of a donation. Sure, functionally and for the sake of efficiency, it's great for the club. But on principle, that's not the point. And just because "it is common practice for other clubs", doesn't make it automatically acceptable.
That's the last time I talk to reporters. M*therf*ckers.
