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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Linda on November 03, 2012, 10:26:49 AM
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Red Cross Response to Sandy
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/11/02/staten-islanders-on-sandy-response-weve-been-left-far-behind/
“Red Cross is here with hot chocolate and cookies. We need blankets, we need pillows, we need clothing. We can get hot chocolate and cookies, we need help!†resident Jodi Hannula said.
I don't know how many people on here have ever had dealings with the Red Cross, but my family has on 2 occasions.
Both turned out badly. We spent 20 years in the Army.
The 1st time all we needed from them was to help make a phine call home. We were in Germany for the 1st time, we were very young, knew nothing of how to use the phone system over there and our new born son was born with only three fingers on each hand. We needed to talk to our family and tell them what happened and to get the comfort talking to family brings at a time like that. But we were told they don't help people make phone calls.
The 2nd time we needed the Red Cross was when my father-in-law was dying, the family tried to get the Red Cross to notify his company so he could get emergency leave, they kept giving us bull shit answers and nothing was happening, finally the C.O. gave my husband emergency leave on his own knowing that eventually the word would come from the Red Cross. As it turned out my husband did not arrive home in time to see his Dad before he passed away.
I have no good feeling and will never donate to the Red Cross, from my experience with them and from what I see in the Sandy area's looks like someone is filling their pockets with cash, because there doesn't seem to be that much actual help going out.
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Red Cross Response to Sandy
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/11/02/staten-islanders-on-sandy-response-weve-been-left-far-behind/
I don't know how many people on here have ever had dealings with the Red Cross, but my family has on 2 occasions.
Both turned out badly. We spent 20 years in the Army.
The 1st time all we needed from them was to help make a phine call home. We were in Germany for the 1st time, we were very young, knew nothing of how to use the phone system over there and our new born son was born with only three fingers on each hand. We needed to talk to our family and tell them what happened and to get the comfort talking to family brings at a time like that. But we were told they don't help people make phone calls.
The 2nd time we needed the Red Cross was when my father-in-law was dying, the family tried to get the Red Cross to notify his company so he could get emergency leave, they kept giving us bull shit answers and nothing was happening, finally the C.O. gave my husband emergency leave on his own knowing that eventually the word would come from the Red Cross. As it turned out my husband did not arrive home in time to see his Dad before he passed away.
I have no good feeling and will never donate to the Red Cross, from my experience with them and from what I see in the Sandy area's looks like someone is filling their pockets with cash, because there doesn't seem to be that much actual help going out.
I used to work for them, back in the early part of 2004-5. I left because...well...my immediate supervisor lied about me, pushed stuff off on me that wasn't my fault, and talked up the secretary to be her replacement even though I was next in line.
I might have to tell of my time there sometime.
You should have been able to make the phone calls. It has been a while, and there's mediaries and all this stuff involved on the ARC's end.
What did we give those displaced during Katrina? When they showed us proof they lived in NO, they got a gift card to buy stuff. Still there was lots of fraud.
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What did we give those displaced during Katrina? When they showed us proof they lived in NO, they got a gift card to buy stuff. Still there was lots of fraud.
What do you mean? Those designer purses and lap dances were important to have during a disaster.
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I used to work for them, back in the early part of 2004-5. I left because...well...my immediate supervisor lied about me, pushed stuff off on me that wasn't my fault, and talked up the secretary to be her replacement even though I was next in line.
I might have to tell of my time there sometime.
You should have been able to make the phone calls. It has been a while, and there's mediaries and all this stuff involved on the ARC's end.
What did we give those displaced during Katrina? When they showed us proof they lived in NO, they got a gift card to buy stuff. Still there was lots of fraud.
We were not asking them to pay for the phone calls...we were asking them to teach us how to use the phone system over in Germany. We had never used it and didn't know how to make an international call. We were going to pay for the calls ourselves. That happened in 1973.
The Red Cross sucks as far as I am concerned.