Here is this story of what happened to one of my pals, some have critisized him for what he did. after reading it, i want you to tell us if you agree with them. here is the story.....

Just like my pastor said, I quote “when people say a particular thing about you consistently and continuously, others who don’t know you and have not been with you would believe what they say”. When I graduated from the university, I searched for a good job. I studied economics; as I searched tirelessly for job there was no job to be found. For about 4 years I searched in the banks, insurance companies and even accounting firms, they all said no vacancy at that moment for me. This faithful Thursday morning, a friend of mine called me, he told me that there was a vacancy at one of this new generational bank in that city and that I should apply. I didn't even wait till the next day, immediately he dropped the call, I dressed up immediately, took my CV and went to this bank to drop my CV. 2 days later they called me up, luckily I was the only person who applied and the lady who called me said I met all their criteria and the job has been to me. I was very happy that day, finally I got a job after much wait.
I started work the next Monday which was 2 days later after they called me that the job has been given to me. My appointment letter was giving to me that same day. I worked as one of the chief auditors which was the position I applied for. As time went on some staff came to love me except for few, maybe they felt I was a threat to them. The job of an auditor requires carefulness and a very conscious mind. I try as much as possible to do my work very well, avoiding errors and mistakes when auditing accounts and returns. I challenge mediocrity with thorough carefulness, boldness and respect. All these made my boss come to love me that he often refers me as one of their best staff.
Few months later Problem started when one of my colleague brought one of our customer' s account statement for me to cross check, unfortunately this particular customer was a member of my church and a very wealthy business man. Before this my colleague brought the account statement, this account owner had already called me personally some 3 days back, and made a complain to me because he knew I worked in this bank. He told me that in the last 2 weeks about N25,000 was deducted from his account without his authorization. When my colleague brought account, I decided to use the opportunity to confirm what he said. I did a thorough check on cash inflow and outflow that period. Behold it was true, I gave him back the account statement. I decided to do a personal investigation on how the money left that account, but I have made up my mind not to tell this my church member anything concerning the deductions till I finish my investigations. But this my church member is very observant, for someone who has over N600 million in his account, a massive regular outflow and inflow of cash on that account and he's still observed that N25,000 left his account without his authorization. I did my investigations for one week and I discovered how the money was moved and who did it. We have never been n good terms since I came into that bank, we only greet “hi” when we see each other. I don't really know why he disliked me. I don't like having something to do with him, but since this incident has happened, I have to confront him about this issue since my evidence is linking him with this deed. I confronted him, at first he denied it but I showed him the evidence, he accepted and started apologizing. I quizzed him for a while and he confessed that he had also been doing it to some other customers. I bet those customers barely noticed it. He took me to a corner, he said I shouldn't report him to our Oga at the top, he promised to give me some huge amount of money. I immediately declined taken any thing from him. I agreed not to let anybody know about what happened in condition that he return the money immediately the same way he took it barely unnoticed, and never try such an act again. He agreed.
I came to the office this Wednesday afternoon, one of my colleague came to my office, she told me that our Boss said he wants to see me. I kept my bag and went to see him. I got to his office, he welcomed me and told me to sit down, and I sat. He told me everything he has been hearing about me. He said he got a report that I was involved in some shoddy deals, and that Bank customers do give me tip and I collect from them. That is one of the bank's Policies, staffs don't collect anything from customers. He didn't tell me who gave him the report, but this was exactly how he told me. I denied the allegations immediately, I explained to him that I can't do such a thing, even though he never explained the kind of shoddy deal I did. But he told he he trusts me and believes in me but if there is anything evil and bad against the bank's rule that I was doing, he said I shouldn't try it again. He gave me an important advice I didn't forget, he said I should be more careful and conscious of anything I do now. I took the advice seriously .
From then on I began to be careful of what I do and how I do it to make sure I don’t make mistakes because making mistakes will give my haters the opportunity to get at me, promotion and transfer time is near.
This so called cabals later formed their group, they are about 6 with 2 gorgeous ladies who felt that gossip was the order of the day for them. They will always find a way to disregard and fault my report. I don't send my oga my report directly, I send it through my colleague who is higher than me in rank, he cross checks it and moves the report to my boss. This my colleague is part of the cabals. Man is not short of mistakes, sometimes I do make some slight mistake in my report. That is why he is the senior Auditor, instead of him to correct it before sending it to the boss, he will rather take the file to the boss and report the errors. Sometimes my boss will ignore him and sometimes he calls me to order himself. Off all these I was still trying my best to tighten all the loosed ends and make sure all my works are perfect. But it wasn't possible because sometimes, in Auditing a report there can be last minute change of numbers and turn around, I still try my best to do the best I can.
This particular day my boss called me into his office, he showed me some errors I made why auditing some accounts and God it has not gotten to one of the people that hate me, the file went directly from me to my boss. My boss warned me and I promised I will be more careful next time. I came out of my boss’s office and I overheard some of the bank cleaners talking about me and how I make mistakes a lot and that some of my colleagues said I will be sacked soon, immediately they saw me they stopped talking and pretended nothing was happening. I ignored them and walked away. That was how another phase began. Daily I became the object of gossip in my work place, today I did some and the next day they will formulate another thing that I did, but of all these I still ignore all of them, for all these people who don’t know me or even come close to me will still believe what they say. I began praying for transfer to come quickly for them to transfer all the staffs that hate and gossip about me.
This faithful Monday morning, there have been rumors flying around that we will be getting a new boss and most of us will be transferred but I kept calm until our boss called all the staffs after the days job, he gave couple of people letters but none was given to me, he also announced that the following Monday, we will have a new boss. He also told us he has been promoted to a regional manager and everybody was happy for him. For me I was happy and at the same time sad because nobody will be there to protect me and I don’t even know much about the new boss. Out of all my colleagues who like, and close to me in that bank 95 of them were transferred and all those ones that hate me, none of them were transferred, I myself was not transferred. Staffs from other branches that were transferred to my branch will resume work the next day which was Tuesday.
Next day which was Tuesday came and we had couple of staffs to our branch, we exchanged pleasantries and introduced ourselves. By Friday of that week some of the new staffs started avoiding me, after work I called one of the staffs and asked her why they are all avoiding me, she said she wasn’t avoiding me but she was just being careful and minding her business, well I told her that I don’t know what people had told her about me, but she should be rest assured that am a great nice guy. She opened up to me that one of our old staff said that I was the reason why two of our staffs were sacked, and I use to put people into trouble. I asked her who told her but she refused to tell me. I denied all the allegations. But I never told her anything that transpired between the guy that was transferring people's funds to his account, not even my old boss knows about it, it was only known by both of us.
The next Monday my new boss resumed, he introduced himself to us and we did the same by introducing ourselves to him. The next day my new boss called me into his office and told me to resign, he said if I didn’t do so he will deal with me. I don’t know what they must have told him about me which he never asked me and he believed immediately. The next day I resigned from my job I worked for about 2 years. My friend who asked me to apply for the job was very angry with me, he said I should have not resigned, but I have no choice because my new boss might still sack me, am still searching for another job till now. “When people say a particular thing about you consistently and continuously, others who don’t know you and have not been with you will believe what they say”.

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