A few more days on fluther and your skin should be as thick as a buffalo hide. But seriously, as long as you can handle being taken advantage of, lied to and friendless in your industry, why change? There’s nothing in the characterization of an honest, caring and kind person that says you have to allow maltreatment—of yourself or anyone else you come in contact with. I’d tell my boss (if I were you) that if being left behind means that I get left with people more or less like myself, then what would be the attraction in “getting ahead”? I’d just as soon hang with you, @Just_Justine.