The worst one for me was in my office recently. The Mom of the child fundraiser is in our marketing department so she constantly sent out these emails and flyers to drum up support. First problem, it was tubs of cookie dough. How much raw cookie dough do you really need and are we so lazy that we can't even make cookie dough? Second, it was for a fundraiser for a private, religious pre-school. No specific purpose in mind, just fundraising for the school. So basically she was begging for us to subsidize her tuition. These things used to be reserved for, "so-and-so school band has been invited to march in the Rose Bowl parade and now we need to raise money for the kids plane tickets" or, "due to a fire, we need to buy all new football equipment...". Now it's, we want more money than we have and we know you won't say no.