Those petition people

[Rageaholic]

With the 2012 election months away, I've been seeing a lot of these people with clipboards who want your signiture. They want you to sign to support whatever they are protesting.

What I hate is how pushy and aggressive they get. If they talk you into signing one thing, they'll want you to sign another, and another after that. Once they give you the clipboard, they will not take it back until you sign all the things they want you to sign. This one guy acted offended that I would only sign one of the things and somehow managed to talk me into signing the others. I don't know how he did it and feel like a sucker for signing the others, but those damn people always catch me off guard.

[Andara Bledin]

Of course they're trying their damnedest to get you to sign: their paycheck depends on it.

I've done this. Most of the people with clipboards are working for temp agencies and they're only doing it because they have no other option.

It's also worth noting that signing a petition doesn't necessarily mean you support it; it means, rather, that you support allowing it to go to a popular vote.

Regardless, that doesn't really make it ok for the signature seekers to be jerks about it. However, if you want to make enough to make more than you spend taking the job, you have to be pushy and annoy people into signing to make you go away.

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[Nekojin]

Once they give you the clipboard, they will not take it back until you sign all the things they want you to sign.

If they're rude to you, feel free to be rude to them back. If they refuse to take the clipboard back from you, drop it on the ground and walk away.

Their job is to get signatures. That doesn't require using passive-aggressive stunts to get more signatures.

[Dreamstalker]

There have been a few of those in front of the store, annoying both customers and employees alike. Yes, they harass us when it's clear we're on the clock (I have a feeling that kind of activity is frowned upon by the organizations).

[mikoyan29]

I've seen these people around here. One of them has a petition that is trying to block the building of a Bridge. So I'm sure they are in the pockets of the guy who owns the Ambassador Bridge.

[telecom_goddess]

They have been in full force here too...they usually ride the light rail trains and catch people on their commute home.

[Zod]

Once they give you the clipboard, they will not take it back until you sign all the things they want you to sign.

Try and walk off with it : I'll bet they snatch it back quickly enough

[HYHYBT]

Maybe it's another small town thing.... but I've never been asked in person to sign a petition.

[jackfaire]

They have been in full force here too...they usually ride the light rail trains and catch people on their commute home.

*Nods* Most of them have been pretty pleasant though. I hate the ones that are working for charities and get all guilt trippy

[Rageaholic]

They have been in full force here too...they usually ride the light rail trains and catch people on their commute home.

That sounds like something they'd do. Catch someone off guard when they're leaving and their defenses are down.

*Nods* Most of them have been pretty pleasant though. I hate the ones that are working for charities and get all guilt trippy

Ah I hate guilt trips. Some people really know how to get into your head.

[Andara Bledin]

I'm pretty sure that doing that is against the law.

It's also incredibly sucktacular, not just against the petition pest, but against every single person who signed.

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[Hyena Dandy]

That's illegal.

It's also just mean spirited. Because even if you don't agree with them, you're basically saying "I don't agree. And all these OTHER people, who did agree, no longer get THEIR voices heard.

[Salesmonkey]

You guys are right. Sometimes I post without really thinking things beforehand.

A petition really is just an invitation to have things heard out by voters at large.

And I'm wrong for suggesting something that I wouldn't want done to something I favor be done to anybody. Sorry.