I Want My Cut

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So you are part of an office team, and week after week you contribute your money to a pool and someone goes and buys lottery tickets. When you started, it was a verbal agreement that if you hit the Big One, you would split the winnings up, no matter what. For 5 years straight, you pooled your money together. Well, one week one of those tickets turned out to be the one and it hit big. To the tune of $207 million. And Susan, Tom, Brad, and Jenny weren’t there to chip in their money toward the winning ticket. So when everyone finds out that you won, you tell these four that since they didn’t contribute, they won’t get a piece of the pie. Pissed the hell off, they get a lawyer and file a lawsuit to get their pieces of the pie.

When you are dealing with money, all the rules go out the window. Fairness, unselfishness, and equality all fly out the window…being replaced by greed. Why should they want to go from bringing in a check from $6 million dollars to slicing it down to $4.5 million?

Because it is the right thing to do, that’s why. Not because the judge or a court of law is maybe going to say that it is, but because everything you put out in the world comes back at you tenfold. If these people are shortchanged, it is very likely that the 15 – 16 people that were seen in the video grinning from ear to ear won’t have those smiles for long.