Would you give up giving advice to this person?

[Bornstarch]

Back around 2011, my co worker received $35k in wormans comp. We advised him to buy a house with the money. Back then, you could buy a house for $65k with a sub 4% interest rate.

Instead, he bought 2 cars. One for him and another for his wife. We advised him if he was going to buy a car, to buy a Toyota. He bought 2 GM cars. Those cars started giving issues well under 100k miles. Spent a ton of money fixing them.

He finally used his VA loan to buy a home last year. We told him to buy within his means. He bought a house for $400k.. fucking 60 miles away from work.

His car finally takes a shit, repair cost is well over what the car is worth. So we told him to buy a USED Toyota Corolla or something. He buys a brand new Chevy Malibu.

Well, today, he was literally crying at work. He's one month behind his mortgage and one month behind his car payment and owes a shit ton of money into credit cards and PayDay loans. 5 hours after we watched him shed tears, he told us he was flying to Texas to go to some kind of fair.

At this point, we ran out of sympathy.

 

[TardStrong]

You can't fix stupid

I wouldn't waste anymore time with him, you tried

 

[Van Daz]

You can guide a horse to water, but can't make it drink....

Trying to help is enough. People have to help themselves, also. You can't do it for them. Good on you for being a shining light. Some ships sink, but it's not the fault of the lighthouse.

 

[Bacco]

Back around 2011, my co worker received $35k in wormans comp. We advised him to buy a house with the money. Back then, you could buy a house for $65k with a sub 4% interest rate.

Instead, he bought 2 cars.

Stopped reading here

 

[Fedorgasm]

What if you had this friend that was 42 and obsessed with this girl at the deli who's only 19.

You keep giving him advice but he doesn't listen to any of it and just keeps acting like a creepy stalker.

Would you continue to give him advice?

 

[Slothbroth]

What if you had this friend that was 42 and obsessed with this girl at the deli who's only 19.

You keep giving him advice but he doesn't listen to any of it and just keeps acting like a creepy stalker.

Would you continue to give him advice?

I found out she is 20. She is always smiling at me and makes direct eye contact and holds it. I think she might actually like me.

I would give up on advising the coworker.

 

[Pliny Pete]

You should tell him about that time you rubbed your dick on The Sphere, maybe that will turn things around for him

 

[Bobby00]

I would give him one last advice. Your an idiot you cant help it your just really really stupid. The best chance you got in life is to listen to people who arent as stupid as you. Its way more likely you will not change and just do things and regret just a cycle of tard probably destined to end up hoemeless and thats ok someone has to be.

 

[Fedorgasm]

I found out she is 20. She is always smiling at me and makes direct eye contact and holds it. I think she might actually like me.

I would give up on advising the coworker.

Bro this wasn't about you. I do have other friends y'know

 

[Sobek]

I think your advice is like white noise to him. He enjoys talking about shit to you but he is going to do what he wants

 

[Morning Star]

Should have told him to buy Bitcoin.

 

[Noveltymortar]

Absolute waste of time. People like him just can't process rational advice. Short term thinking is all they're capable of.

 

[Osculater]

Keep giving him advice but end of each sentence call him dumbass

 

[KeepingItReal]

Back around 2011, my co worker received $35k in wormans comp. We advised him to buy a house with the money. Back then, you could buy a house for $65k with a sub 4% interest rate.

Instead, he bought 2 cars. One for him and another for his wife. We advised him if he was going to buy a car, to buy a Toyota. He bought 2 GM cars. Those cars started giving issues well under 100k miles. Spent a ton of money fixing them.

He finally used his VA loan to buy a home last year. We told him to buy within his means. He bought a house for $400k.. fucking 60 miles away from work.

His car finally takes a shit, repair cost is well over what the car is worth. So we told him to buy a USED Toyota Corolla or something. He buys a brand new Chevy Malibu.

Well, today, he was literally crying at work. He's one month behind his mortgage and one month behind his car payment and owes a shit ton of money into credit cards and PayDay loans. 5 hours after we watched him shed tears, he told us he was flying to Texas to go to some kind of fair.

At this point, we ran out of sympathy.

You advised him because he asked or because you are a self appointed advisor?

 

[Grassshoppa]

Buy him an iPad.

 

[Plutoburn]

Advice only works for those seeking them. Unsolicited advice, no matter how great they are, is a waste of effort.

 

[whocares]

My wife has a co-worker/friend like this. She is nice person, but also a neurotic dumbass who keeps fucking her life up, making idiotic decisions and impervious to any kind of helpful advice. She asks for advice, but continues to do dumb shit anyway. You can't do anything for these people.

 

[Boomb]

You can't fix stupid

I wouldn't waste anymore time with him, you tried

/thread.

 

[Legumes]

Deja vu?

Does a brand new Dodge Charger impress you?

I have this coworker. He received workman's comp back in around 2010. This was back when houses were super cheap. Instead of buying a house with the money he bought two cars. He bought a brand new Dodge Charger and a brand new Ford Explorer SUV. This was back when you could buy a decent home for...

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[pugilistico]

I had a friend like this but luckily for him he didn't make absolutely asinine financial decisions like that. Although he did buy some things that made me scratch my head. I bought a 2000 dollar leather jacket and said it's a great investment and was telling other guys in our group to do the same. He also wasted thousands on a Japanese sword from Japan, that he couldn't even bring in for legal reasons lol. He didn't look up the law before buying it.

But most of the issues were with health and women and I gave up trying to give him advice. To be fair, he didn't want it and I realized you can't change people unless they want to be changed. But if you're friend is obviously inflicting misery on himself, you'd want to to help him. But he didn't want to listen. He had a really really bad diet, didn't work out, and was bordering on alcoholism. The only thing you can do is watch them slowly kill themselves or look away.