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Originally Posted by d00t
Has a friend of yours ever abused your trust?
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Mmmm... no, not actual friends - have to say the folks I think of as friends would not abuse - known em for at least 20 years min.
But..... a few "wannabee friends" or "gimme's" have screwed up over time.
Let's see... most of em were just cut off and better they are distanced - no biggie.
A couple were more serious - one has now served about 70% of a 12 year jail sentence, - another wisely elected to return the money he stole - and a third is currently a no-hurry "work in progress", but chances are will most likely serve a jail term. Got no interest in seeing him in jail - that's just the path he elected to follow and he just gets deeper in the shit with each answer to questions posed by judges over the last few years.
Some people are just too stupid. Others tend, prob fairly innocently at first, to assemble where there is money, others will intentionally work their way into groups of people claiming to be friends, but knowingly having other intentions.
In a biz scenario - unless people are directly working on something - there is no need to discuss any aspects of biz or much else. The "probation period" for a biz friend is five years - not over a drink at a convention
In the middle of the human swamp - there are still plenty honorable people
