And there we have it. The foundation of your business ethics, as expressed much more verbosely, in many, many, many of your posts, condensed down to one sentence. Not just how you do business, but how you deal with people in general, in all situations.
I treat assholes like assholes? Yes, Yes, I do.
That's not to say I haven't had the misfortune, on occasion, to have had to deal with liars and thieves and other nominal “humans” of very low character, but such dealings have been a tiny minority of my experiences in dealing with pother people.
you see, here's the thing. You have this kind of anger. A guy broke into your truck once, and you wanted to murder the poor fool. I might not have liked what my boss in 2008 did to me (and most of my co-workers) but I certainly didn't want to murder the guy. And he cost me more than a couple hundred bucks in tool you probably shouldn't have left in your car to start with.
I have little doubt that if I were to have the relevant conversations with those that you claim to have screwed you over, I'd get a very different story from them about their dealings with you, and that their accounts would come across as much more believable than yours. If I were to have dealings with them, I have little doubt that I would find those dealings to go well, and would come away with few complaints, if any, about their honesty or ethics. And I equally have little doubt that if you were to deal with most of the people that I've dealt with you'd come away whining about how they screwed you over.
Okay, no, you probably wouldn't have.
So let's review what the boss I mentioned above did to people who weren't me. He fired two gals who were pregnant. He fired another lady who had been with the company for 15 years. The only reason why I had the job was because the person they initially selected for it had cancer and they let him go. He frequently had women in the office leaving his office in tears.
This was simply an awful person. Every last person who dealt with him thought so. Even his office manager (who I am still friends with 13 years later) doesn't have fond memories of him.
Now, an aside. I eventually went to work for another company in the same industry, and I had to deal with him a a vendor. The guy really did try hard to ingratiate himself with me. I dealt with him professionally, but never really trusted him, for good reason.
It'd probably be amusing to see you working under my current foreman. He's an honorable man, and he takes very good care of any workers who impress him favorably. But he doesn't put up with slackers, and he doesn't put up with the sort of bullshit of which you are a prolific producer. I do not think you'd last more than a day on a job under him, if you even made it that long; and of course, after being kicked off that job, you'd surely whine about how he supposedly lied to you and cheated you and screwed you over.
Only if he lied to me. The problem is, I can document lies I was told. Does it make a difference? Nope. There's no law against lying to the hired help.
But that's okay, Bob. I mean, your cult has been telling you lies since your birth, and you enjoy them. Me, I enjoy truth and have no patience for liars.