Topic : 07/25 "What Would You Do?"

He was clearly conning you and will continue to con your friend as long as she chooses to be in the dark. You were a good friend for warning her and telling her the truth. If she chooses not to believe you because she's getting freebies, than she obviously doesn't put much value in friendship. Find someone that does.

You did the right thing, your company did the wrong thing and I suspect your direct boss was not the only one up to no good which is why the company handled that situation the way they did. Next time, I would've considered going to the authorities if they don't handle the situation properly. But don't feel bad, you were stuck between a rock and hard place with NO support, surrounded by people who were out to sabotage you in order to cover their scam.

Your honesty deserves to be valued. I hope you find better employment and better friends.

These people are nuts.  I cannot believe that woman and the revenge-on-the-exes thing.  Isn't cutting plugs off appliances and boiling clothes to shrink them vandalism (which was a crime the last time I checked)?  All this does is give credence to that old saw that women are like men, minus reason and accountability.  If a guy's that big a jerk, the best "revenge" is to not let the idea of him control your thoughts and actions.  Warning a woman that a man is abusive is one thing; trashing his stuff to satisfy one's basest instincts is ridiculous and embarrassing.

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I really don't believe that ethics have changed that much.  I think we SEE more ethical violations because of changes in laws and because people are less trusting of big business and the government.  I don't think those entities are blameless but I don't think they've changed much.  At least we have laws now that prohibit child labor, theoretically require a minimum wage (inadequate as it is), and are supposed to hold companies to some form of workers' rights and safety standards.  I don't think they are as helpful or as well-enforced as they should be, but 75 or 100 years ago, they weren't there at all and business owners had a lot more leeway to hire, fire, underpay, and maim workers as they pleased and as was most profitable.  The "good old days" were often very hard times (ask your parents or grandparents who grew up during the Depression) with even fewer social safety nets than we have now.  Anyone who reads any nonfiction history knows that the Victorian age or the 1950's or whatever era you care to idealize was not nearly as rosy as the movies and the religious Right want us to think.  I'm a 29-year-old unmarried woman with an average education; 100 years ago my options would have been limited pretty much to schoolteacher, nurse, servant to my parents or married brother, or prostitute.

Worried about genetically altered food?  Read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and be glad your food can't legally be produced under those conditions any more.

Anybody else here read Mark Twain or Dickens?  I suspect there's a reason they include so many characters who are charlatans and thieves.  Apart from them being good comic opportunities, I'm pretty sure it goes to show that there have always been scam artists and corner-cutters in the world.

I agree! It's sad, but women who act psychotic like her make us good ones look real, real bad. No wonder some men are scared of getting into a committed relationship. When they see a real peice of work like her, trashing her ex's place, gluing his locks and crap like that, I can see the apprehension. Shame on her for making decent, honest, and well-balanced women around the world look psycho.