Have you ever been used for your money or had your wages stolen?

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Have you ever been used for your money or had your wages stolen?

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Yes, my girlfriend (probably I should stop calling her this) asked for a lot of money.

I don’t think she used me, and I don’t blame her. I think drugs made her lie to me.

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I worked for a well-known donation company for about a month. I quit when I did not receive a full week’s worth of pay. My swipe-card did not work, and I told my manager so she could input my hours manually. She failed to do so, and I walked 5 minutes before my shift, hoping to leave them in a bind for the night.

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I get asked for money by homeless people a lot. I always try to give when I have it. Today I gave 200 dollars to a woman who just lost her husband and had been trying to survive with her children on oatmeal for the past two weeks. I’m hoping it will allow her groceries for at least a week or so.

While I don’t like to think she was scamming me, she obviously needed money more than I did anyhow. That’s the mindset I keep when helping people out.

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i once gave four dollars to a juggling midget in the parking lot of a Phish show. does that count for anything?

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she probably thought you were lying, which is probably hard to believe.

if I was in the same situation, I would have some coworkers vouch for me. I’m pretty sure I would probably be in security cameras too, if the workplace had them; which would be further proof that I was at work.

you could probably even press charges on them

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Yes. Recently. Best (currently former best)… friend lied to me saying she lost her job because the person she was caring for died, and she needed to make rent but didn’t have enough and her land-lady was going to evict her and her 10 year old son. Naturally I believed her, because she’s been like a sister to me since I was in the third grade. I live two hours away from her so I wasn’t fully aware of what was happening up there. Found out she’s been using drugs and this new guy she is with is extremely controlling, separating her from her close-nit family.

She said she’d pay me back, but that was back in July, and I haven’t heard from her since then. Her mom got a hold of me asking if I’ve heard from her, but after that whole weekend and she kept hounding parents for even more and my mom going off on her we haven’t heard a word from her since then. And her mom & grandma can’t find her now, no one has seen her, at least no one is saying they’ve seen her. I’m afraid she’s left the state with her boyfriend and they’re dragging her son along for the ride. I’m worried about her, but I have no way of getting a hold of her now. And honestly if she’s doing illegal drugs I don’t want to be around her. I don’t want to enable her.

I already feel bad I gave her $500 of my $600 a month income because I thought she was getting evicted…but now realize she was lying to me about everything. Lesson learned, never give that kind of money. And especially if she comes crawling back for more not to give her any. Not as long as she’s doing drugs, not as long as she is with this new boyfriend of hers, and especially not a dime until she pays me back the original money I gave her.

I just wish I knew where she was.

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For me it was when I wasn’t stable on meds, and my so called friends would let me pay for every meal or drink. I would always offer and they would accept, but they would never offer.

Had a lot of crappy friends before I got stable on meds.