Story Time: Her Unemployed, Deadbeat Boyfriend Couldn’t Even Buy Her Moving Boxes!

“It’s my boyfriend. He knows I’m moving next week and he is doing absolutely nothing to help me. He doesn’t even work! He smokes weed and plays video games all day.

I asked him to buy me some moving boxes, as the store near my house closes once I am home from work. I also told him I would pay him back. And he can’t even manage that!”

At my second job in New York City I belonged to a small department that prided itself on looking out for each other. The head of the department was the most experienced and senior member of the group, and one busy summer we were short-staffed. He ended up hiring a woman with no experience that related to the position, but he told us that he liked her resume and because she was a single mother he thought he would give her a shot.

Cari turned out to be an awesome, easy-going employee. She spent a lot of time getting trained by my coworker, so we didn’t get to work together much. However, we lived not too far from each other, so we took the same train home every day and got to know each other after work.

One evening on the way home she admitted that she finally received the keys to her new place, and she was planning to move out of her mom’s place and into her own apartment the following week with her…