Are you ok? How was your day and how did your meeting go? I asked her as I entered her room after she asked me to come in after knocking on the door. My friend has been out all morning. She came to my room as early as 8am to drop off my laptop she borrowed and told me that she was leaving for a meeting with a patient which she was supposed to meet up with alongside some of her colleagues precisely two of them making it a company of three persons.
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I had also been out for the day and just came in to check up on her and she wasn’t in a good state as I went about enquiring how her day went. She had a sullen and tired look like someone who had been robbed. The day went fine she said as per attending to her patient but the later part of the day wasn’t fine. And why is that? I queried.
It was then she began to tell me the story of her encounter with the man she worked with. The man had earlier told her that they were going to share the profit so the job they did together 50/50. He was to take 50% and give her and the other colleague 50 percent. She said she wasn’t even ok with this agreement initially since she was the one that brought the business but because the man is the one who taking care of the technical part of the job, she didn’t want to flog it.
Only for them to finish the job and the man said he was to give them 10%. She said she was in shock and reminded the man of the 50/50 agreement but the man said he never said anything like that. After all said and done and back and forth the man said he would give her 30%. She came back dejected and depressed. I was angry with her as to why she didn’t maintain her stand and here she was saying that she didn’t have strength to fight. Then why are you complaining.
She then went on and on to complain about how she’s the first born and has a lot of financial responsibility on her and then how she thought she could her made alot of profit from the business only for that man to cheat her and so on and so on. When she was counting all the responsibilities on her, I couldn’t relate actually and I told her that I couldn’t relate with her struggles as the first child because I am not and so don’t have alot of people on my neck and call.
I tried to encourage her to be cheerful and hopeful and things my turn around. Just yesterday she told me how she was able to resolve the drama with the greedy senior colleague after reporting him to their union and he was restrained. It was really quite a battle and it took quite a strain on her but the end of a matter it’s always better than the beginning. Was glad she overcame.
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