Happy weekend hive students and community 🥰💕.

Its truly sad that people you call friends will turn out to jealous you when things goes well in life for you, but will show you pity when you can’t afford a square meal. And the worst part of it all is that sometimes they hardly hide the jealous because they don’t know how to act.

I experienced so much jealousy during my 9:00 - 5:00 corporate jobs because of the department I was working with. An International Motor Company that imports and assembles vehicles 🚗, for sales and services based in Lagos, Nigeria 🇳🇬.

This is a very big company with departments and large numbers of staffers. And I happened to be assigned to “The Sales Operations Manager “. My boss being in charge of co-ordinating vehicle sales , both within Lagos State and other states within Nigeria 🇳🇬. I as the Public Relation Officer, handles Customers Service, including every correspondence.

And because of the kind of department that I am in, my boss has the right to treat customers to lunch, office coffee ☕️ and snacks, which enables me to have access to ordering entertainments. This is a department everyone will like to work in because apart from my boss being a good person, he allowed me to handle most purchase finances by just signing the invoices for the cashier to reimburse our department.

And as time went by, my friends from other departments in the company started to jealous me. Usually, we all likes to go to lunch together, having to gist through lunch and share some personal problems. But suddenly , when I ring them through the Intercom system in the office, they will not pick up my number. And these are people I will always buy things for or pay their lunch when ever we go out for lunch because of the privilege I had.

And one day I went to discuss my observation with my General Manager’s Secretary whom I was so close with, she immediately told me to by cut anyone I noticed with jealousy because friendship is something we can not force. She told me that they are envious of my department, how my boss treats me and how am in charge of most things in my department. I was astonished because I never expected such behaviors from those I called my friends even though we are office colleague.

I immediately stopped talking to them without confrontation. I no longer go to lunch with them nor go to any event again with them. I stopped sharing any good news with them since I see them as enemies and not friends again. And later at one point, I had from someone in one pf the department that one of the girls was jealous of me, saying “why should I be the one that dresses more than others in the company. It was so baffling but what do you expect of those who don’t want you to move forward in life. They are pained because they don’t know how to combine their expensive boosted purchased clothing compared to my cheap clothing I combine properly due to my fashion dress sense

We need to truly be aware of those we call our friends. Once you notice jealousy among friends, it then means its time to leave that girl group haha 😀

Thanks for visiting and reading friends 😍

Best Regards @sunshine29.

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