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Handling betrayal

If a person is betrayed by a family member , in most Indian families, the family members will keep quiet since “family honour” is at stake.

However, while working in a professionally managed company, the attitude is just the opposite. If a person betrays the trust reposed in him or her, backstabs, cheats, lies or does not keep promises, the person betrayed is encouraged to speak out , tell everyone he or she knows about the betrayal.

This is a much better approach for several reasons which include :

  • People will know about the betrayal, the person behind it, so they will think twice about dealing with the betrayer.
  • If a person keeps quiet after being betrayed, the chances that he or she will be betrayed again are very high as people will take the individual for granted.
  • The person betrayed may get some compensation or redressal if he or she makes a noise about it. If no one knows about a problem, no one can help the affected person.
  • Telling others about the betrayal reduces the frustration and stress caused by the betrayal.

Betrayal by business associates

At times it is your business associates, vendors who will betray you.
If you a single lady, who has spent one crore rupees with the different internet companies in India and abroad, know more about certain aspects of the internet than almost anyone in the country(or the world) in a particular subject, not a single person in the internet industry will openly support you and you will be subject to identity theft and surveillance for years.

However, if you are young , good looking and a powerful person’s “girlfriend” or wife, you will have many supporters, even if you are mediocre with extremely limited knowledge of the internet.

Trusting banks

In India the awareness level about online businesses is low. Many bank employees do not understand the internet and judge a business owner based on his /her appearance and the (malicious) gossip of neighbours and make complete false assumptions. They also spread nasty rumours making your life difficult.

Today,  bank information does not remain confidential and there is no shortage of people who will stoop to any level to extort the money from you. In such cases, it is better to reduce the money you keep in your bank.

A true life story

You trust people, pay money and they betray you. An unscrupulous effort to grab the hard earned money of a single lady.

She worked very hard for many years so that she would not have to depend on anyone financially in her old age, but the people she trusted (who are very “respectable”) gang up to steal her money.