Well, hello there and thanks for surfing my wave!
So I’m at my Workshop yesterday talking with the moderator, also my Business Coach, Deborah Gallant, and she tells me a rather telling story. She was at a bagel store to purchase bagels and such for our group and sees a homeless individual and, without a second thought or being asked by this person, Deborah asks him if he’d like a bagel and proceeds to hand him one.
Are ya’ll ready for this one?
The homeless person says no and wants money from her instead to buy some item at a fast-food location whose name does not merit mentioning given this scenario. How stupid can people be, homeless, unemployed or otherwise? These kinds of actions ruin it for all. If a person out of the blue offers me anything and I’m standing there homeless with not a pot to pee in, you take whatever you can get!
Unemployed beggars cannot be choosers.
I’m always cautious as to whom I give money. If I see people on the streets smoking, drinking, talking rudely or shouting out with what could be a myriad of mental disorders, they get nothing from me. After all, it’s my money, and would never dole it out to see it wasted on things that will deepen the person’s time homeless or if I see the person as being unappreciative; trust me you can tell by looking at them and I’ve given all sorts of things to homeless folks over the years. I can remember a date I had probably 20-25 years ago at a Thai restaurant – extremely expensive – and on our way out, my date practically insisted I give the leftovers to the beggar on the corner. I hesitated and balked at it for a bit, but who was I to argue? I had a job and money at the time, so I gave in to my better reasoning as I would have been more than willing to give a dollar instead of ten bucks of really good food. Never saw that girl again.
It is utterly disgraceful to see homeless people calling the shots; I would have questioned that person to see what made him homeless – inexcusable. As unemployed people, we do not turn down interviews, phone calls or anything after having applied for the position; only after the offer is made and you truly see the deal not working for well thought out and discussed reasons, do you turn anything down. I’m completely outraged to know that there are people on the streets naming their handouts. For Shame, People! Often times I’m attracted to these types by the signs they present; you learn a great deal about one’s personality by what they carry around them. I can look into their eyes and see what’s sincere about them and what isn’t. Next time I give an offering, do I need to ask what it’s being used for like some teenaged child? I’m coming close to walking into a local grocery store for an application and my wife is already polishing her credentials and some a-hole has the gall, the nerve, and the audacity to turn down a bagel? And he’s homeless? Is this the reality we are faced with today? It’s a good thing it wasn’t my bagel that beggar refused; I would have let him have it in spades!
We didn’t choose to be unemployed and I categorically refuse to beg for anything, but I’ll be damned in hell if any living sole refuses the gift of food from me and then asks me for a job.
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