Make A Wish Employees, What's a Wish You Had To Decline - Reddit

make-a-wish recipients and workers what were some wishes you had to say no to I received a wish when I was 15 at that time I was madly in love with Harry Styles and of course wanted to use my wish youto meet him and spend the day with him after telling the wish coordinator this she broke the news to me that if I were to meet him it would be a year from then with about fifteen other kids for a very brief moment a hello and a photo upon hearing that disappointing news I changed my wish and instead went to Australia for ten days with my family and swam in the Great Barrier Reef just for some background both my sister and I are pretty damn sick and so we had the rare occasion where we both got wishes my family suggested that we just do one but make-a-wish was adamant that we each got our own my sister's make-a-wish was to meet Taylor Swift we flew to Nebraska for two days got in the same meet-and-greet liners people who won radiant contests took a picture with Taylor Swift and that was that I on the other hand asked to meet Kristoff in Arlen he had never been requested for a wish so we were flown to LA where we got a tour of the Warner Brothers lot and then had a private lunch with Nollan and Emma Thomas his wife we hung out for two hours where they finally left because they had some film related thing to do we found out later that had only agreed to an hour but during the lunch insisted that he stayed longer it was quite interesting how we both had celebrity wishes and they both turned out so differently this video is brought to you by Fiverr the biggest most affordable and overall the best freelance web site there is it's a place where you can hire anyone from writers to designers and everyone in between for as little as five dollars it's absolutely the best place to save time and money for your projects but if you want to take your business a step further we would highly recommend Fiverr Pro a place where you can work with verified and vented exceptionally talented professionals that have with the work for companies like Google or Apple proven to be the best in their category what in the description below when I was in college I had a good friend named John we were both in automotive eight hours a day for two years one day we grabbed sushi on lunch and he casually mentioned at 12 years old current age 20 he was a recipient of make-a-wish he asked for sushi and just sushi you could see his eyes light up just telling the story they set him up with a private lunch at a local sushi bar where he had the entire selection of sushi rolls laid out in front of him with each and every possible condiment / roll / side not an expensive or grandeur request but make-a-wish went above and beyond usually the wishes we had to say no to work from the kids family members there was always some uncle grandma cousin sibling or parent who wanted to hijack the kids wish I knew a friend who had cancer and overcame it and he talked about make-a-wish if it's not accepted you apparently get a first-class trip to Disney World most people can't afford he said he went to Disney World cause he wanted to meet a skater that was in Europe on some tour when I was a baby until I was 5 I had cancer and got some wishes my first wish was for a computer I only wanted a computer because it came with a mouse yes I thought it came with a real Mouse so obviously it was rejected because you can't have pets when you basically live in a hospital and my family was brokers Frick anyway so they called to give us a pet I ended up getting some dope-ass googly eye glasses and an epic trip to Disney World it was the only family vacation we ever got to go on this isin't my personal story but of my uncle who passed away shortly after I was born he loved the Terminator so much that he wanted nothing more than to meet on old Schwarzenegger due to having a busy schedule Arnold's agent had to deny him of his wish a couple of times was filming for the 2nd Terminator my uncle was so determined to meet Arnold that he then changed his wish Utah meeting Mariah Shriver Arnold's wife because of his determination he was allowed on set of Terminator 2 Judgment Day he got to meet Arnold mariah and arnold stunt double my mom still has the pictures and it makes my heart soar make-a-wish is fantastic and I'm so glad my uncle got to live out his dream update thank you for everyone who read this and left a reply my uncle was a great guy and I wish I cold gotten to know him personally I called my mom and let her know about this comment and all your responses she loved her brother more than anything and hearing so many people got to know one of his stories made her so happy thank you everyone him glad his legacy gets to live on in such a positive way I have experience with make-a-wish in the last year due to my son's condition this was a question I asked and the response I was given was they will do anything they can within reason one kid wanted a swimming pool in his backyard and they did that because of how the process goes with make-a-wish they asked the kid a lot of questions to determine what the child wants and to ensure their isin't any influence from the parents my wife and I sat with my son while they asked him a lot of questions over about a one hour period to determine what he wanted to do they asked my wife and I to sit there silently while he answered honestly we are going to go to Legoland and meet Darth Vader sometime in 2019 my little brother has had two heart transplants so far and will probably get another before it's all said and done his wish was to go to Nintendo well Nintendo Japan doesn't grant wishes but Nintendo of America does he stayed in Seattle for a few days and had a day long tour of Nintendo unfortunately Ricky wasn't in the office that day but the treehouse staff led him around all day this was right before the switch came out so he got to play breath of the world before anyone they gave him a sweet goodie bag and let him go on a shopping spree in the employee store Make A Wish Wish granter here and I have to say it is the ultimate sadness when we have to stop the process because a noncustodial parent won't sign the paperwork it's happened far too often what's the interaction with that parent do you get to give them a piece of your mind or try to shame them or is it just like her well as a wish granter I do the part where we meet the child and the parents and then as long as no one is a douche we get to actually grant the wish our central office staff are the lucky folks who have to track down the non-custodial parent and ask for their permission to grant the wish for the child I'm just a volunteer so the paid people do the extra challenging stuff like that I would hope they'd at least say something to make them reevaluate their life for denying their child a wish when that child not only has a life-threatening illness but also clearly are not so happy family life on top of it all every single time I have had a noncustodial parent refuse it's been because of spite towards the other parent they don't want that parent getting a free trip or any benefit from the wish not to say there aren't other people who have had other reasons to decline but that's sadly been the reason in my experience I worked for make-a-wish Junior Genie as I like to say we had to say no to wishes all the time either the person the kid wanted to meet didn't grant wishes the place they wanted to go didn't grant wishes their wish was ridiculously expensive / prohibitive their doctor didn't sign off on the wishes it wasn't a good idea for their health and so on for the most part our volunteers were pretty good at helping kids zero in on that perfect wish I've helped coordinate some wishes that I was surprised to see were approved usually it strips too far distances with a lot of stops and long stays it's one thing to go to Japan it's another to go to Japan for two weeks its backslash backslash another backslash backslash to go to Japan for two weeks and go to ten different attractions not all of them give us free tickets many don't even give discounts most kids had cookie cutter wishes Disney World Harris meet the president etcetera those were my bread-and-butter I hate to call them cookie cutter because I know it's such a precious memory for the kid in their family working there was a precious memory for me too and I enjoyed coordinating every owns trips unusual frequent high medical needs lots of family what-have-you it was such an amazing thing to be a part of I asked for a shotgun because I was into clay shooting they said no went for a rally driving day they picked my family and I up in a limo drove us two hours to the place and then I had the whole place to myself and lots of time behind the wheel it was great they paid for pro pictures and a meal after for my family and my godparents family even just gave me some spending money I had a great time ten years later still alive my condition prevented international travel so even though my top wishes were to go to Japan or to the UK to meet Jay K Rowling those were the night I ended up doing a shopping spree at Mall of America which sounds kind of lamay but I grew up for and had a lot of fun being able to just buy things for myself without worrying first thing I bought was a new pair of glasses since my old ones were scratched to shoot and too weak anyway I was really lucky to have my make-a-wish granted and I just want to say they really go above and beyond my mom has always talked about going to Hawaii and we knew it was pretty unrealistic for our family of four I was pretty young when I made my wish so I didn't even know all that Hawaii had to offer but I chose to go there for my wish they put us up in a penthouse suite on Waikiki Beach and I've never experienced anything more special in my life everything and everyone they wanted to make sure my family had an unforgettable time and we shorted we were able to forget about the cancer for a little while and feel like a normal family again thank you so much make-a-wish and all that contribute a classmate of mine now past got a meet and greet with Sammy sir the understanding from the make-a-wish people was that Sammy would sign autographs and sit with the family for a while now this kid was all about Sammy he had his jerseys loved Sam his little leaps after homeruns and I even was begin to Pepsi because of Sammy - when the day came Sammy showed up late he didn't respond when the family greeted him it was described as a sullen silence signed a glove and then walked away my classmates started crying once it was clear Sammy was not going to come back right when the parents were about to leave another baseball player named Corey Patterson saw my classmate came armed signed everything they had and talked and joked around with the family for over a half hour Coley became my classmates favorite player that day and I think he lived perhaps a year after that moment at his funeral my classmates picture with Cory was one of the prominent pictures that moment and a truly truly meant the world to him he was around ten to eleven I like to this day I'm unsure if someone from Make A Wish found to read or if the moment was as spontaneous as it was described to me but no matter what Cory will always have a special place in my heart because of that story edit I of course was not there and I'm not a primary source for Sam his interactions with my classmate but I know and trust the family edit - Wow I did not expect this post to take off like this nor did I expect the silver shoutout to Kobe Patterson being amazing one thing that a couple of Ananse have pointed out that I think is worth mentioning is that it seems unlikely that make-a-wish would organize a meet and greet with Sammy Sosa gently suggesting I was miss remembering the context the anons argued that it's more likely their meet-and-greet would be with the Cubs team as a whole and that this changes the context of Sam his actions if the meet-and-greet wasn't directly with him what I do remember is that this story really rocked our tight-knit community but made us that much more appreciative of Cory Patterson I've been the recipient and later on after my health improved I volunteered as a wish coordinator my original wish was to attend the Oscars that got a night by the Academy as they do not grant wishes I wound up going to the People's Choice Awards as a VIP Make A Wish flew my family to LA for a week all expenses paid they got us a limo for the show paid for my dress hair and makeup we walked the red carpet and were seated very close to the stage it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience the generosity of the volunteers is remarkable they even had someone greet us at the airport on arrival it was extremely important to me that my brother and sister were included in my wish because mildness had robbed them of part of their childhoods I'm forever indebted to everyone who made my wish possible when I turned 18 I decided to volunteer as a wish coordinator to give back to an organization that did so much for me I met with wish kids and their families we would always arrive with a gift for all the children and the family based on a little survey they filled out we'd talked with the child and helped define their wish it's important to determine the child's true wish and make sure that it isn't influenced by parents the most common wishes to go to the smae celebrity meet and greets are the ones that often can be turned down first because it is undefined water meat and greases it could be the child literally waving at someone and no one wants that and second because not all celebrities grant wishes or can shed you'll time to meet which kids the coolest wish I worked on was a shopping spree for a boy who was confined to his room he got 7k to go buy videogames TV's a tricked-out lazy boy etc' for the ultimate gaming setup best comment of the day I used to babysit for my neighbors in high school and their young son ended up having cancer he got to make a wish and he asked for a dog his dad had severe asthma and they didn't have a fence so make-a-wish built them a fence a doghouse and got him a puppy that was a breed known for bee less allergy inducing and trained to be a service dog for him it all happened in about two weeks from what I remember and the kid ended up so happy and with a new friendship that would last for years bless that charity seriously [Music]

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