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by song 4377 days ago
That's what I really hope when I think of an employee who screwed me completely over after I gave him a chance and spent a lot of time training him...

But from the last news I've heard being a snake has been very successful for him and he's landed a high position in the new company where he works (taking over the guy who hired him).

I hope one day it all catches to him but I'm not hopeful.. I just wish the world worked like this.

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i know i shouldn't judge with this small amount of info, but still...

you normally aren't paying an employee in training even close to the normal rate in the profession. which is obviously correct, but makes the argument that the employee screwed the employer by leaving after the the training kinda strange.

In that case, he left with some of my customers contracts so that was the screwing over part... The training thing is the fact that I spent a lot of time training him hoping to do great things together and eventually making him a partner of my company.

Anyway, it's a long story....

It may be likely that if the world did work like that, he wouldn't be such a snake. People are conditioned to think that stepping on other people to get ahead is the only way to be successful. In that sense, I too wish the world worked like that, because then we would have a lot less snakes.
The last sentence of your comment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZjOk2G80GM#t=77