This page was one of my contributions to our class, it was suppose to be useful, helpful, but ultimately I failed... I scanned in our official class photo from the mandatory orientation session. I compared it to our UBC MBA CORE 2004 souvenir t-shirt which listed all the names of the participants. I thought it would be a good souvenir, a useful resource if I linked intelligently, I thought a lot of things that were later proven incorrect during my time as a Sauder MBA student.
I eventually got the idea to link to people's LinkedIn.com public profiles. Not everyone joined our LinkedIn Group that I helped set up. Guy Kawasaki sees the benefit of a LinkedIn.com profile, but not everyone in our class sees the importance of maintaining a good reputation and relationships. I kept trying, too hard and for too long to make things better, now I just stay away from all the people pictured below. They caused me more pain and suffering than you should ever cause another human being.
I went out of my way to help a lot of the people pictured below. We were encouraged to do so by the Business Career Center and the MBA Program office. I also thought it was the right thing to do. People, such as Marlene Lau said they noticed my efforts, appreciated my help, appreciated me, people pictured below said a lot of things that weren't very truthful. When I questioned these inconsistencies they just treated me worse eventually lashing out and breaking me. Then I was discarded, my usefulness used up, I was ignored, people pretended I didn't exist, didn't matter, didn't suffer. I of course didn't understand, but I repeatedly apologized, I stayed away, hoping, but things never got better.
I always told the truth, however sad and pathetic that may sound. People either didn't believe me or didn't care enough to do or say anything. Some people tried, some people likely gave the appearance of caring. I gave up long ago trying to figure out who knew what when. Many people knew exactly what was going on, they either had no problems deceiving myself and other members of the class or they had no problems with people deliberately and repeatedly hurting me, threatening me, punishing me, breaking me.
I tried to take the high road. I was told it was all a misunderstanding, an over-reaction. I was told things would get better. They haven't and the people who used to say such things, eventually ceased, they gave up on me, on the whole situation, leaving me more alone than ever. I kept things secret as best I could for the duration of the MBA program, others pictured below did not. They had no problem spreading hurtful rumours, not one person ever bothered to ask me if they were true.
I've stayed away from everything and everyone as much as I could. I didn't attend the graduation ceremony. How could I attend when others in attendence so callously threatened me? I lived in fear for years. Do you have any idea what it is like to live in fear? I've tried to not be as petty and vindictive as some of those people pictured below, but after so many years of battling depression and anxiety attacks... Maybe I failed, but at least I tried. I really told the sad and pathetic truth, I really was only trying to help someone who repeatedly said they were my friend.
