I'm currently raising money to do a century with TNT.
In sending out fundraising emails, I sent one to a former boss who not only tried to set me up to take the fall for a huge payroll mistake she made, but in the midst of layoffs, she told us that our department wouldn't be affected. Since the company had a last hired/first fired policy, I would have been on the way out. When she was on her way to my field office for a "meeting" with the higher-ups, I sent her my resignation. When she showed up at my office the next morning, she was in the best mood I'd ever seen anyone in when faced with an employee's resignation, but said she'd made an "error" with my paycheck that week. When I logged into the system myself to check it out (as one can do when one works in the HR department) I found out that my check had already been printed with severance and vacation payout. She was on her way to pink slip me and my resignation made it to her just hours before she had to do the dirty work, so she pulled back the check and processed me as a resignation. I figured the confrontation wasn't worth it, so I didn't even tell her I knew what was going on. It was certainly legal from the company POV, but not very kind.
So, although there's no love lost between us, and I have as much chance of her not even reading my email, I sent a request anyway. You never know how people react to charity requests, right? The last time I rasied money for an endurance event, I got the highest donations from people who I was the most hesitant to ask.
