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Ah, yes…the company clothing drive

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   cilecto
   

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   Posted 1 month ago
   Thu Oct 15 2009 13:15:59
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   My workplace sent a reminder that we're running a clothes drive for the needy. New and gently used gear from your closets to be dropped off at strategically placed bins throughout our midtown office complex. Should we just put the PCO on speed dial now?

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   paulaw0919
   

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   Thu Oct 15 2009 16:42:45
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   This goes along with the kids pre-k class "wear your pj's to school" day...and my daughter's "pajama day" at her dance class. Oh and there's the clothes drive at one of the local elementary schools as well. Sad cuz I believe people could make use of this stuff. But scary to me now. :-(

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   Bugbitten Meg
   

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   Fri Oct 16 2009 8:46:38
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   I think that clothing drives could be redesigned to minimize risks -- but as they're done right now, they're clearly a vector for spreading bugs, and since all of the changes would make the drive much higher-maintenance, the management will almost certainly resist proposed changes.

   Let's kick it around, now, tho' -- at the very least, it allows you to send pointed recommendations to whoever's in charge of the drive. (as opposed to 'don't do this, it's a bad idea.' Which they won't believe until it's too late.) What do we need, to make a drive 'acceptably safe'?
   I think,
   -encapsulation/isolation during the collection stage, and
   -guaranteed cleaning for all items.

   The easiest workaround that comes to mind is to commit to bulk-drycleaning all incoming stuff, and then declare (and publicize well ahead, with last minute reminders, like a blood drive) specific collection mornings, with the dry-cleaners truck in the parking lot --or maybe just a volunteer at a pavilion in the lot with drums & drum liners, & zip ties -- being the only collection site.

   advantages: collection in the lot discourages people from taking things into their office at all.
   disadvantages: a separate budget for cleaning. But that's going to be a necessity no matter what method is chosen. More labor time... it may not need a full-time volunteer, but never getting close to overflowing your collection bins is going to need actual active monitoring.
   Possibly, declare different days for 'casual' (washable) and 'office/outerware' (drycleanable)...
   but it's inevitable that some well-meaning ditz will send a mixed bag, so know ahead of time what the workaround procedure is. (as long as there are actual volunteers watching the stuff, they could also sort out 'wrongly sent' stuff to another bag.)

   Alternate methods? tweaks? stages that don't look secure enough in my method? Post it!

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