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   Cannot trust queers to patriot1@protonmail.com   
   Re: I came out as gay and spent $24,000    
   26 Nov 23 21:31:49   
   
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   From: eradicate@queers.com   
      
   tRUMP VERMIN Inmate P01135809  wrote in   
   news:uk04q0$3c78n$5@dont-email.me:   
      
   > This person is nothing but scum and because they are gay, they have no   
   > fortitude or integrity.  They will relapse, commit the same crimes and   
   > steal from the employer again.  It wold be better to just kill them   
   > and get them out of society.   
      
   While working at Disney, I spent thousands of dollars on drugs using a   
   corporate credit card.   
      
   When I confessed, the company didn't fire me — it gave me a second   
   chance.   
      
   I later worked on healing from my addiction and mending my relationship   
   with my family.   
      
   I started my first professional internship at Disney in the summer of   
   2014 in my hometown of Glendale, California. I felt a sense of purpose   
   in planning summer activities and bringing the intern community   
   together. It was the greatest summer of my life. Little did they know I   
   was also struggling with a meth addiction.   
      
   My traumatic experience of coming out as gay to my Armenian family   
   brought a lonely, dark fog over my life. My workplace was a refuge from   
   addiction and my pains. I loved being surrounded by imaginative people.   
   Upon graduating from college, and after my second internship with   
   Disney, I was excited to be hired as a software engineer on the   
   PhotoPass team. It was my dream job and a haven; I knew I was lucky to   
   have it.   
      
   As my addiction deepened, my finances didn't reflect the near-six-figure   
   salary I earned at Disney. Most of my money was spent on drugs and on   
   helping out my immigrant family.   
      
   I eventually reached a breaking point.   
      
   I confessed to my employer I was mishandling the corporate card   
   I spent about $24,000 on Disney's corporate credit card to support my   
   drug habit and my family. I convinced myself I'd pay it back, but I was   
   getting in over my head.   
      
   At the beginning of 2017, I took a stranger's advice and admitted my   
   mistake to my manager. I was terrified I'd get fired or go to jail, but   
   Disney offered me the greatest gesture of love anyone could've shown me.   
   The company gave me a chance to pay it back and left me with a formal   
   warning. This was a big turning point in my life.   
      
   My family gave me a loan to pay all of it back, and for the next year, I   
   worked to pay them back. The second chance Disney gave me also inspired   
   me to go to rehab. But I failed six times and was starting to give up   
   hope.   
      
   On July 17, 2018, I was stranded with no gas, no money, and 10 days left   
   to return to work from another medical leave of absence. Addiction led   
   me to push away all my friends and family. I feared I was about to lose   
   the only constant left in my life: my job at Disney.   
      
   https://www.yahoo.com/news/lifestyle/spent-24-000-drugs-disney-131601685.   
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