This colleague is widowed and single, living with a boy. Her mother-in-law also supports her. We are a company that wholesales and sells non-staple foods. We usually supply supermarkets and get paid by commission. The average salary is No less than five thousand yuan. In terms of normal expenses in our county, five thousand yuan is more than enough for the mother and son. But starting from a few months ago, every time her salary was paid at the end of the month, she would borrow money from me, two thousand and one thousand, saying it was to pay off her credit card. Why was her salary not enough? Later, she chatted with several other colleagues, I found that she not only borrowed mine, but also borrowed from several of them, not a lot, just one thousand or two thousand. But it adds up to a lot, five to six thousand. At first, I borrowed the money at the end of the month and repaid it at the beginning of the month. Later, I borrowed the money for the entire month and still didn't pay it back. My son happened to be asked to pay his tuition fees, so I asked for it, and she paid it. Less than half a month later, I started to want to cash out my credit card again.
I was talking about this matter with a colleague in the office today. She said that the colleague lent her the money and it was only after two months that she asked for it. We all feel that there must be something wrong with her approach of tearing down one wall to make up for the other, because other people who normally rely on wages to live and eat do not feel particularly constrained, and they all have children to raise, and they all have more children than she does.
I myself have given up on Huabei. Now that I’m on shore, I don’t want to wade through the water again. If a colleague around me is in an emergency by chance, it is not impossible to borrow money to help. But like this colleague, I really don’t want to deal with her in terms of money, and I don’t want to become a small treasury for her capital turnover.