15/ and most galling of all - and this is really too over-the-top even for fiction: when her mother died, she had no spare cash to bury her
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16/ so at the time, without a second's hesitation, I whipped out my credit card. Because what the !@#% else does a friend do?
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17/ so, anyway, she avoided that debt for a year, and then - when she got her windfall - tried to stiff me. ON PAYING FOR BURYING HER MOM
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18/ I could turn this tweet into a 300 item long tweetstorm, but I won't. Let me just say this: I'd known this woman for 20 yrs >
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19/ ...and I'd always known that her ethics leaned a bit towards "I want what I want". But even then, I had no sense of the scale of >
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20/ just what a utter moral coward she was I ended up getting paid but she destroyed 20 yrs of friendship Haven't seen my godkids in 1 yr
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22/ Money comes and goes You'll have windfalls and bankruptcies. You'll launch firms, sell books, lost money on investments All works out
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23/ But if you'll steal from a friend bc you want a vacation, or think you deserve a nest egg more than a laborer deserves his paycheck ...
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24/ well, then, you've got zero value in my book. ...and there's no coming back from that. Ever. The end.
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25/ Ok, I've got just one more thing to say. I ran a firm for 15 years. I skipped paychecks regularly.
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26/ But I never - not once - stiffed my employees. 15 years x 26 pay cycles = 390 payrolls.
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27/ when someone gives you labor, you pay them. No ifs, ands, or buts. To do otherwise is theft. Fold the firm, if you have to.
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