Rich man with poor attitude
12-May-2008
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My gripe is mainly about rich men who have money, and yet are always the last to pay their bills on time.  Another issue I guess, is their attitude to the people in their life and the complete disrespect that they show others.

I was in the market town of Ripon, North Yorkshire on the afternoon of Friday 25th of Feb, 2005.  A very well known northern businessman whom I cannot name for privacy reasons, but who I have also known for a while had just had his haircut and was walking across to his BMW X5.  His car just happened to be parked right next to mine so I met him and he asked me to join him in his X5 and have a friendly chat, which I did.

I have sewn her up good and proper

Very rich men who don't pay their bills on time

As we talked, he bragged to me about a confidentiality agreement he had made his long term ex mistress and again can't name names for reasons of privacy.  Anyway this rich and powerfull business man looked at me and said, ‘That girl can’t do anything anymore, I have sewn her up good and proper and did you know in that agreement, she can’t set foot in North Yorkshire until me and my wife are dead?’

He then went on to tell me that his life wasn’t going in the direction he wanted it to and that the “country was going to the dogs”.  I have to say I don’t have much sympathy I have my own life to live.  It would help if this man, who is in the top one hundred rich list would pay outstanding invoices that he has owed me for months, some people with so much money get away with anything!.

Shaun from Leeds


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When I was younger I believed that money is everything. Now that I am older I know that it is.

You can't get very far without it, this you must admit to.
*Charlie  17-Jan-2008 08:40

 
Bang on the money Chris (pardon the pun!) Money and riches are indeed the route of all evil and man (or woman... and probably more likely) will kill his best friend for financial gain. It's all very sad and it basically points out how we have not really evolved at all!
*Flatcap  17-Jan-2008 01:19

 
Update to comment below, sorry Dominoes in Derby, not Hull. This businessman should be in Jail! Slavery was supposed to have been abolished exactly 200 years ago - 1807!! What are our politicians doing!?!
*Chris  31-Jul-2007 16:22

 
The vast majority of us will live our lives with anything between nothing and just enough to live on. One thing is for certain, absolutely none of us will be taking anything leftover with us, once we leave this planet!

All of us spending seemingly all of our lives just in the pursuit of money have lost the plot. There was a time in late 17th century Europe when anyone and everyone went in dogged pursuit of Tulip bulbs! It sounds completely daft now, but it's true nevertheless. How long will it take before our successors look back at us and think how daft we are for our singular pursuit of money. It will happen.

What matters is peoples behaviour. Look at the Dominoes Pizza scandal, (in Hull?) it's just outrageous, but typical of this type of businessman!
*chris  31-Jul-2007 15:18

 
There's only one kind of good old hard work. That's the kind a coal miner used to do. Hard digging all day long. So called captains of industry or city-slickers pulling in bonuses of £1 million, or people who have acquired £300 plus million, these people haven't really earned their money by hard work at all, but only by wheeler dealing and probably cheating.

Their wealth is nothing but greed.
*We'll have their backs against the wall  30-Jul-2007 23:47

 
to sadeque: you are a stupid lair....your story is so fake.
*uk girl  30-Jul-2007 18:48

 
Sadque... obviously you're not a very good business man really if you let all that happen.... Now, nip down to the local dole office and claim every benefit they can offer you... either that, or p**s off!
*jinx  27-Apr-2007 12:05

 
I don't think that I had better respond to the post below. I don't think my blood pressure would come down for several months if a started. Poor dear, have you never heard of bankrupcy?
*Freddie  27-Apr-2007 11:46

 
First of all I do apologized for wasting your time. I am a businessman. Due to some unavoidable circumstances I had a great loss in my business. At present I am in big trouble I cannot pay back my loans also I cannot continue my business, I am suffering vary badly. I want some help from you. I lost huge amount of money; I sold out my house from which I got 40000.00 Pound Sterling approximately paid back some loans. I do not have any more property to sell and pay back the balance loans. Now if I get 200000.00 Pound Sterling then I can pay back my loans and do some thing for my family and myself. Please do help me. I know it is a big amount. Please do help me otherwise I will be in big problem. If I do not get any help from you then my children and my wife will be in big trouble. My wife’s health condition is not good. I afford to do her treatment due to shortage of money. I cannot pay the University fees of my children. At present also we are in big trouble. Please do some thing for my family and me. If you want to help me then please let me know I will let you know my bank account number. Whatever the amount you want to help please do. My email id is: sadeque@sol-bd.com
Thank you very much for your co-operation.
Best regards,
Sadeque.
*sadeque@sol-bd.com  27-Apr-2007 11:33

 
Just had to mention the guy "Bob who posted a message, come on Bob, don't be a plonker with your talking about the HARD WORK CRAP, most of us work hard and long hours, probably more than you do, especially people working in the health industry!
*JohnPru  12-Apr-2007 00:31

 
The trouble being that there are quite a large number of rich men and women who do a hell of a lot to help and support a large number of disadvantaged people and don't usually want their names mentioned.If you had seen the later stages of Friday nights Save the Children programme,you would have seen a man pledge £1,000,000 if the same ammount was pledged by other people in an hour.That sum was reach in the time and the money was given.
Money doesn't neccessarily mean greed,it can be attained by good old fashioned hard work.
*Bob  20-Nov-2006 20:27

 
to be honest money talks, despite everything all people look at is the badge on your car, the label on your clothes, the your postcode,sad but this is the harsh reality of life.
*KenB  19-Nov-2006 01:19


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