Debit or credit card: Which one is best for student?

[cobrat]

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Cobrat…you have colleagues who frequently ask you to bail them out? That seems odd. What line of work are you in?</p>

<p>I can see maybe a suddenly abandoned lowly paid mom-co-worker needing a bailout, but not several fellow employees.

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<p>Worked in a medium-sized financial company in the Greater Boston area. And no…none of them were remotely like the lowly-paid mom-coworker…more like more senior workers some years ahead of me in some other departments and even a middle-manager or two who are all making decent upper-middle class incomes.</p>

<p>I’d have far greater sympathy for colleagues like the suddenly abandoned lowly paid mom co-worker needing a bailout. Heck, I wouldn’t think anything of giving them the money rather than loaning it and trying to get them connected with friends/relatives who’d be sympathetic and inclined to help. </p>

<p>The colleagues I’m talking about are not only far removed from that situation, they’re the very types to openly disparage people in her situation for not having their upper-middle class background/incomes…and for not being able/willing to living their spendy lifestyles. </p>

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Are you saying that the SAME PEOPLE who brag about buying “this pricey thing” or “that pricey thing” on a regular basis are the SAME PEOPLE who are asking for bailouts on a regular basis?</p>

<p>If so, the next time they say, “Hey, I just bought X,” then why not retort, “Don’t open the box, save the receipt, and when you come next week and ask for money, go return that item.”

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<p>Yep…they were the same people. What’s more odd was that all of them had more seniority on me…including a few middle-manager types(fortunately no reporting relationships of any kind). </p>

<p>I just told them no…and if I’m feeling really snarky…suggest that they stopped living like Donald Trump or Ferdinand/Imelda Marcos.</p>