Naive Girl talking in corporate

CAIRO – 28 September 2017: It was my last semester in college when I decided that I wanted to work and study at the same time. Hence, I started hunting down jobs, and I found the perfect job for me at the time. It was at an international company. My job was to sell and rebrand the product at parties and in restaurants in Egypt.

I got hired on February 3, 2013. We started taking some sessions on how to approach the customers and how to market for our products. The sessions were given to us in less than a week and we started working straight afterwards.

In this company I trusted two people, they were supposedly my best friends, for the sake of my privacy and theirs I will not mention their names I will call them Ahmed and Amira. Ahmed graduated from the American University in Cairo in 2014, while Amira wasa student at The BUE.

Both Ahmed and Amira took me under their wing in work and life. I always got back to them in work and life about all the little things I would second guess myself on. I trusted them and Itheir opinion.

Ahmed was always asking me for money and I used to give it to him blindly I was also always buying him things because I thought that, that's what friends do they help each other.

On the other hand, Amira was the girl who treated me like her younger sister. The three of us used to call each other every single day to check up on each other.

Our job required traveling to Gouna and Sahel that meant a greater opportunity to be with my friends, and to get to know them better.

Eventually, at Gouna and Sahel we used to spend our time together discussing our future and how it will include one another.

Ahmed was not only my friend, he was my partner at work in Sahel and Gouna. While Amira was my friend and my roommate during the work trips.

Therefore, yes we hung out a lot at work and outside of it to. The problem began when I heard that I was going to get promoted. People were asking me how is that even a problem? This is something good?Yet I believed that it was a problem. I was getting promoted and my friends were not.

When I heard the news I was so excited I went and told Ahmed and Amira. Little did I know that they were not happy for me.

This news made me ecstatic for months and it made me put more effort into my job. My university friends started telling me that I need to leave the job that is taking all of my time and effort and started changing me and turning me into a horrible person.

What how was that even possible a job turning a person to a horrible one, that makes no sense.

Obviously I went and asked my two new best friends (Ahmed and Amira), their comment was no you did not change you actually evolved into a better person.

Months passed by and I was still in my position and I did not get my promotion. This did not affect my work at all and at the time I did not really care.

However, my reaction started to change when I started hearing that Ahmed and Amira were going to be promoted, and I was not.

I started doubting myself, and started feeling that I am not doing my job efficiently and I even asked my boss, and he was no you are doing great. Plus he added that I was going to be promoted as soon as the summer ends. I was relieved when he told me so, that was I really getting promoted?

Summer ended and I get a phone call from Ahmed saying he is being promoted. I was very happy for him and excited. Hence, I got him a gift for his birthday that will fit his new position.

I started waiting for my call, and one day I got a call that I have to travel to Gouna with the team. Hence, I notice that I am not going to be promoted. Therefore I started freaking out inside and no one was helping, not even Ahmed or Amira , both of them told me that I have problems and I did not care about them.

That was never true I cared a lot about them, but that was my future we were talking about I had to put it first.

I had to show Ahmed and Amira that what they are saying is not true. So, when Ahmed asked me for money, I lend him LE 500 right away. While Amira I was trying to do for her everything, but she was not helping.

Inevitably, I came back from Gouna knowing that I lost a friend. A month passed by and I asked Amira to give me back my accessories and clothes that she borrowed, but she did not answer.

I was extremely annoyed by her lack of response that I called Ahmed and asked him for my money back because I started feeling that I was alone and both of them were using me in work and for money. His answer was “I do not have the money.”

I really was pissed, and I did not know what to do, so I called a co-worker and told him the whole story and asked him if he can take the money from him.

When my co-worker asked him he said that he does not have the money on him and he will give it to me personally.

Another month passed, and Ahmed did not give me the money, so I decided to take it publicly on Facebook and ask him in indirect way.

I wrote: “A friend used me as money bag, and I thought we were close. I was to him a bag full of money. Little did he know that this money is not mine and it's my parents. Thank you my friend for showing your true color.”

That was my statement for ending our friendship, which was already built on a huge lie. Ahmed was never truthful to me he told me he was born in the U.S., he was not, he told me he graduated from AUC, I checked the list on the website and he was not on it. He was a liar and a user.

I did not get the promotion and I got backstabbed by two people I trusted, hence I decided to leave the company and leave the place that had a negative impact on my life.