Tonight is gonna be sooOO not fun..

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slycat

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My friend has been working on this project for me for the past 30days...lots of work, tons of hours. I'm gonna have to break it to him that because of an irreparable clerical error the project will not happen and its basically a goner. No fruit, no money coming from it. Loss on both sides. He's like the serious, hardworking type so this is so gonna suck.

i'm bringing him to the best restaurant in town for dinner tonight and i think he thinks its to celebrate but its coz i wanna lay it to him after dinner.

how? how? to make it better? :heart::frown::(

Update:
OK FINE! OMGASSBBQWATERMELONANANDTECHMEMBERSBITCHESFROMHELL!!!...

we had dinner...still talking to me about the fvcking projek. i changed subjects...had to.
after dinner i suggested starbucks coz restaurant was noisy and we couldn't talk. went to SB
and after some more small talk i laid it out for him. he digested it for a while and then said
he was actually gonna stop me before i began because he sensed i had something 'bad' for him.
anyways, we broke it down and he gave me some suggestions on how to salvage the project
so as not to incur any losses. I gotta say...

well, its gonna be illegal. there. only way to salvage is to take some VERY high risk moves and
are illegal. I know plenty who do similar stuffs and get away with it fine. Its not very hard, something
like running a red light. I'm no saint and am not particularly worried about that part of it but its the risk
part that is real scary. I mean we're talking about more than 1/2million dollar risks here. I told my SO
and she said HELL NO! I dunno...

1) Lose maybe 10k and forget it

or

2a) Take huge risk and maybe lose nothing(break even)
or
2b) Take huge risk, FVK up royally and maybe lose much more(worse case scenario= declare bankruptcy)

What would u guys pick?
I know many will say (1) but sh1t, u know how fvking long it takes to friggin make back that $10k after taxes?! its like flushing it down the drain. With (2) we get a fighting chance.

Looks bleak either way. Time to pray hard. :(
 
Mo0o

Mo0o

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Maybe you should just tell him directly before the restaurant, then ask if he wants to get drunk on your bill
 
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slycat

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Originally posted by: Mo0o
Maybe you should just tell him directly before the restaurant, then ask if he wants to get drunk on your bill
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can't bring myself to do it...he's so friggin excited about it. i just wanna cry.
o yeah, he doesn't drink.
 
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Whisper

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Originally posted by: Mo0o
Maybe you should just tell him directly before the restaurant, then ask if he wants to get drunk on your bill
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I'd actually agree with this. I wouldn't take him to dinner with him thinking it's something celebratory. And if you tell him beforehand, if he makes a scene it won't be in a nice restaraunt.
 
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djheater

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Originally posted by: slycat
Originally posted by: Mo0o
Maybe you should just tell him directly before the restaurant, then ask if he wants to get drunk on your bill
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can't bring myself to do it...he's so friggin excited about it. i just wanna cry.
o yeah, he doesn't drink.
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Well,... now's as good a time as any for him to start.
 
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z0mb13

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Originally posted by: Mo0o
Maybe you should just tell him directly before the restaurant, then ask if he wants to get drunk on your bill
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get him drunk first!!! then lay smack down!
 
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JzL

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damn, sorry to hear the misfortune.

g'luck in whatever ya choos .. :frown:
 
cronos

cronos

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ouch. that sucks.

i agree with everybody, tell him that before you go out, and then try to have fun, or whatever it is that he wants.
 
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kt

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Man.. that sucks. I hope you didn't promise him anything for the work he already has done. That would suck big time because I wouldn't know how I would handle something like that. I mean did you mention to him that the project is not 100% sure thing yet and that nothing may come of it? Or you hyped him up to it and prayed that it would go through?
 
RedRooster

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Was this a side project on his own time, or his expected source of income for the month?
If it's the first, he should understand. If it's the second, I'd hate to be you. :(
Good luck though!
 
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Bumrush99

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Tell him to check out this awesome OT forum and to search for your user name to see your most recent posts!
 
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benliong

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I agree with everyone else. Tell him as early as possible. In fact, if I were you I would have told him right after I knew that the project's a goner.

Honesty rulez in these situation :beer:
 
KLin

KLin

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did someone put an extra 0 on the total amount budgeted for the project or something?
 
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slycat

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lets just say he was supposed to pocket an EASY $30K.
Now, he might be out a couple hundreds plus a couple hundred hours. :(

i can't tell him now...shitz..at this very moment he is still working with some people on this.
i wanna tell him face-face not on phone so i can't call him and tell him now. i only get to
see him tonight. And he was asking me what the occasion was...should he bring a gift etc..
gawd, did i mention i want to cry?
 
KLin

KLin

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Originally posted by: slycat
lets just say he was supposed to pocket an EASY $30K.
Now, he might be out a couple hundreds plus a couple hundred hours. :(

i can't tell him now...shitz..at this very moment he is still working with some people on this.
i wanna tell him face-face not on phone so i can't call him and tell him now. i only get to
see him tonight. And he was asking me what the occasion was...should he bring a gift etc..
gawd, did i mention i want to cry?
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wow 30k. hope he doesn't have any guns.
 
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