Pitt87 wrote:Hate to be that guy... but you can take this one of two ways; victimhood or pivot point. Victims will take this as an atrocity and think the system works against good people, or your friend can pivot their life around this point and find out how to get into a job training program and make his own situation better.
Either way, people shouldn't let anything like this define how the feel about themselves. Its always a bad outcome when one accepts frustration.
I understand what you're saying, that basically you can call it a lesson learned or not to live the life of a victim, but there's also a side of it that make it seems like the caddy-driving deadbeat junkie thief is the winner here and has zero accountability for his actions. Got a slap on his wrist for his crime, was handed a job that paid well, and now lives a life where he doesn't have to worry about a thing. OTOH, S-F's friend is out a car, a ton of items that were stolen by this guy, and has received what is equivalent of less than a penny on the dollar on those items for restitution.
I agree that it's a bad outcome when one accepts frustration, but at the same time this shows why there is something wrong with the system as a whole.