I hope everyone had a nice Easter. My weekend was just "Ok"…i did get some work done so that’s always a good thing.

My GOOD FRIDAY was not a very GOOD one though. I was really let down by someone who I considered a friend so much so that I ended the friendship. That’s never fun but I guess it’s all part of life.

My problem is, I’m the type of person who usually lets things bottle up and build up until the glass cracks. At the time of things that are happening, I usually don’t say anything which I’ve learned is BAD. My reasons for not saying anything at the time are usually because most of the time, little things that are said and done to me are usually not worth causing a fuss over but what happens is when shit piles up …THEN, suddenly I think of everything that happened over the years and compile them into one explosive list. That line about the Straw and Breaking the Camel’s Back came this Friday night. 

And so…I blame myself for letting this person walk all over me over the last year or so. The good news is, I’ve put an end to that. 

So what caused all this? It all started with money I was promised for work I did and did not receive full payment(due to the person just not having the money at the time). The amount due was only $2,000.00… Flash forward a year and this person asks me to do more work but still hasn’t paid me the $2,000.00.

Okay…so I’m not stupid enough to say "yes" because I don’t want the money owed to turn into more money owed…but what I do is refer this person to someone else to do the rest of the work. Strangely, this person I referred them to has no trouble being paid for the work they did. So I’m annoyed but still not to the point of blowing off the friendship. And so, a few months down the road the work is completed and I’m sent the finished product WITHOUT being given proper credit and the only credit given is by the person i referred them to. [I'm being vague as to what the project is because even still, I'm not out to blog-bash this person...not sure why I should care about that when they didn't seem to care about fucking me over.]

And so… I got very angry when I saw I was not given credit where it was supposed to be and released everything I was feeling and thinking in an email on Friday terminating our friendship. There’s more to the story and other reasons I’ve been upset over this but the above is the main beef.

I don’t want to believe this person would do all this intentionally to me….I just think they were completely oblivious to what I would feel about it. Perhaps they just got caught up in the moment of getting the project done and was excited about it and just forgot?

And so…after sending my angry email, I get a voice message from them stuttering over everything they were saying. What would have been nice to hear was "Bob, I’m REALLY sorry about all this, let me fix it and make things right" but this was never said. So now??? I want the money that’s owed to me along with proper credit.

I just started working with a manager who’s been doing a fantastic job so far and she said she’s going to be in contact with this person to try and fix this. She might be able to fix the credit and money owed but I feel pretty let down by the way things unfolded.