Ever done this?

Question of the day:

"Ever dump on a friend?"

Seriously. Ever thrown a real friend under the bus? I never have. EVER. Have I angered friends, pissed off friends, ended friendships? Of course.
But intentionally...deliberately...quantifiably...maliciously...tossed a true friend into the pit with the Lions?

I wouldn't even know how. Wait...strike that last comment. I actually would know how, because I've seen it done, as well as had it done to me.

As recently as today.

A friend...a co-worker...a confidant on the highest order...someone I had personally seen to it that they received extra bonus money; extra praise heaped upon them by upper management; even an extra promotion that they probably didn't deserve...

Dumped on me.

Spit on me.

Let me down.

Abandoned and forgot about everything done for them - by me.

For no reason other than to do it.

Without provocation or excuse.

In a public setting, no less.

And to top it off...the information forwarded for all to hear was total bullshit.

We live in a sad, sad, sad, sad, world. Respect, loyalty, and personal accountability are just words on a poster on the HR office walls. They're neither adhered to or believed, therefore we live in a sad, sad, sad, world.

And today...I'm the king of the sad people. Tomorrow, it'll all be yesterday's news and not worth two lines in a paragraph. But today, sadness and betrayal get top billing.

That's why anyone outside of the blog world who knows me....knows I have 3, perhaps 4...friends. I'm leery of forming any, because as of tonight, I'm down 1.

Again.