Do you think it's right to kill someone who has ruined your career?

Question

Yes or no? Explain.

BTW, I haven't had this happen to me. I think it's a good hypothetical question, though.

Answer 1

My goodness. Look at all the "no" answers. I guess it's up to me.

A human being only lives so many years. If you invest 30 of them laborously building a career which is spitefully brought to naught in 3 minutes by a corporate executive who has a personal grudge against you, then that's time down the drain that you simply cannot replace. You're not immortal. You won't live long enough to try again.

Someone who ruins your career has partly killed you. Turnabout is fair play, isn't it?

Note to law enforcement: I don't have any plans to kill anybody. It was just obligatory with me to present the opposing point of view.

I'm adding this after reading the answers after mine. Asker, you're getting told a wagonload of chummy horse manure.

While it's true, as someone said, that you still have the experience from your previous career (which is now ruined), what you NEED is money to pay your bills with. To get money, you either need to establish a yourself as a competitor with your former company in the market - which is hard to do, partly because you need more money than you have to pay the overhead and partly because companies often keep the line worker away from the corporate customer, and so they don't know you. The reputation points that your work should have brought you went instead to the corporation whose management ruined your career.

Can you guess how that amassed experience is going to be interpreted by employers? You are overqualified for every open position. Every employer who sees your resume will understand at once that you are looking for a temporary spot to tread water in and that you will leave as soon as you see something better. Your departure might occur at a time inconvenient to this employer. Therefore, he would rather hire a recent college graduate than you.

(And it goes without saying that the employer would prefer to have an easily bullied recent college graduate as a new-hire than someone who's been around and knows most of the mind tricks that bosses are prone to play.)

I will say it again: if someone ruins your career, he has partially killed you. If you'd invested half your employable years with a company before you were ruined, it's most likely that you will never regain the prospects that you once had.

Answer 2

I understand that you have worked extremely hard for your career. However, you must take responsibility for your actions and reactions. Remember that what goes around....comes around for the person or persons who ruined your career. Look at this as an opportunity to start something new. You have gained much knowledge from what you put into your old career. You can now use that to continue on. Take a vacation...gather yourself together and put some time between you and the situation.

If your career is truly ruined....your experience was not ruined. You can do this and it will take some time to get over it. Put one foot in front of the other. Now go and keep going.

Take Care!

Answer 3

It's really hard for someone else to ruin your career without your help. If they lied about you, set the record straight. If they lied to you, tell their superiors what happened - even if you now think that you should have known better.

Don't lose any sleep over this, and definitely don't go to jail over it. Things always come full-circle, and this person will one day get what's coming to them. You may not have the pleasure of knowing what it is or when it happens, but I have seen it enough times to believe that people always pay for their bad deeds.

If you feel the need for revenge, there are plenty of legal things that you can do. Just remember that the energy you put out comes back to you, so don't go overboard.

Answer 4

I think one can always change careers like the chameleon changes his color. I don't think anyone can ruin your career...re-invent yourself...create a new improved resume!!

My career might have been ruined by my last boss and the HR director, yet I put the devastation behind me and found another job in another city dealing with all new clients and have buried the past (but have not forgotten.)

You should not dwell on revenge it will eat you alive. Of course, if you must DO something, first get your career going again then research different types of revenge...take clients from them or something...you can do it. Learn from this! good luck.

Answer 5

I don't think that I have the right to kill someone who ruined my REPUTATION years ago (and profited from doing that!) and destroying a career is not that bad. I would certainly be angry and want to expose what they had done, so that they would not be thought of as innocent. That would be more fair, though perfect justice is not possible in this life.

Answer 6

Perphaps if you knew the reason why they'd like to ruin your career. Not often is it that people randomly target someone to ruin their career, maybe you've done something to invoke this. Perphaps it's time to make amends. If not possible, maybe it'd be a good time to start over. I don't ever think it's ok to kill someone. Detaining them for the good of mankind possibly. But to kill them doesn't sit right with me, Everyone wants to live and be happy in their own way in this life. So if someone's doing something, it's because they believe in some way or another it's going to end with them getting some desirable effect out of it. Stealers, Car Jackers, Robbers, They're all people who just got stuck in a situation and needed another option. It's not the best option, but they just wanted what's best for themselves. Is that not what everyone wants? I don't think law enforcement handles it the proper way everytime, because they tend to be very harsh. Bent around the edges due to a neverending carousel of them seeing people being treated badly, and treating the police harshly back in effect to seeing that happen. People always have their reasons. Violence and Pain begets more violence and pain. It's never an answer. Even though it may feel differently at times. That's the nature of emotion. I feel like what you give to people you get back. So if you're doing people right and helping them, you're going to get helped back, but if you're only out for yourself then you're going to be done similarly. It's all about how the person is thinking at the moment. I wouldn't kill someone who ruined my career, because that'd be very hard to do as an entrepreneur. I have lawyers, accountants, Living trusts, Various LLC's and FLP's, and Pensions protecting my assets. Either way. I'd do my best to make sure I changed this person to be an ally of mine. Whether that meant, progressing a personal ignorant aspect of my own personality that i didn't see before, or helping the person through a problem he's going through right now that would make him see me as an enemy to his cause. Perphaps if you knew is problem you could help him through it, and it's only a mentally ill human who would hate someone who's an ally with them, and making their life easier.

Answer 7

no, I would need more information to find out what types of retaliation are acceptable but killing is a definite no. There are more important things in life than career even if that is hard to accept right now. I hope you do not have any contact with this person in any way. Good Luck

Answer 8

Murder is never the answer. Especially for something as trivial as your career. Careers these days can be changed, revived, upgraded, simplifed, or exchanged as easily as today's fashions. Just learn from the experience and move on.

Answer 9

No my career isn't as important as anyones life. However, if I were Sandra Bullock and someone did that to me, I might have the person castrated and their knees broken, but nothing rougher, I'm a soft hearted woman!

Answer 10

No. Even with the eye-for-an-eye rule they have in the bible it wouldn't be ok to take a life in return for a career. the most you could do was ruin their career. i do not think it is moral to kill a person for ruining your career. i don't think that is justifyable.