Lowest Form of Scum

Today I realized what type of person ranks as the lowest form of scum in my book... the person that uses other people to get themselves ahead with no regard for the people they stepped on to get there. To make matters worse these people are everywhere, crawling out from under every nook-and-cranky looking for ways to get ahead at the expense of others.

As I mentioned in a previous post my parents recently purchased a childcare center in Pensacola, FL. They knew throughout the purchase that they were not dealing with the most honest person but that the deal was great if they could work through it. In the end they got the deal done but in the process the previous owner proved that there is another level of low-life that I had heard existed but had never personally encountered.

Without slogging through the details there are several items that were part of the transaction that mysteriously went missing the last day the previous owner had access to the premises. She took important documents in an attempt to ruin the center after she left (this will fail because what she did not know was how well my parents know how to run childcare centers). She talked bad about my parents to the employees as well as to the parents of the kids already using the center.

Then, to top it all off we learned today that she is not planning to pay the employees for the last 7 days she ran the business. She is just "skipping town" so to speak. Essentially she used these employees for 7 days, collected tuition from the parents, and then pocketed it all leaving the employees with bills to pay and no money to pay them with. This is low and I hope that I am never one to be accused of stepping on people just to get that one step ahead.