For the longest time, I didn’t post ANY thing that wasn’t diabetes related. I even started another blog for other stuff, but I just never seemed to get around to posting to it. You’re going to start seeing even more non-diabetes stuff in the future.<\/p>\n
Alwin’s post on integrity has gotten to me a bit today. You see, for a while, I was associating with the wrong person, mainly because I was completely fooled by him.<\/p>\n
I won’t post much of the details, but basically I was involved in an organization that was doing some really good things from an under-represented group. Unfortunately the person who put the original organization together had a severely rotten core and fooled much better people than I. In fact, he managed to obtain a peace officer’s license fraudently and was an employee of a police department at the time I met him and associated with him.<\/p>\n
It took several incidents to convince me that he wasn’t what he represented himself to me. Unfortunately as a result, I am out about $5,000 — which is a drop in the bucket as to what happened to other people — but the good news, is that most of that $5,000 actually went to help the right people.<\/p>\n
The end result, is that I am extremely careful about who I associate with, and what groups I associate with. I haven’t even joined a dog club since that happened, and I avoid doing any type of volunteering or contributing money until I know a lot about the group. I don’t even trust background checks anymore since this episode in my life, since this guy managed to pass police academy and police department background checks.<\/p>\n
Part of the issue, was that it was my own reputation for integrity that got others pulled into the mess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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