This is a great topic, Mich because it is, indeed, a small tiny little world. Everything we do comes around no matter if we're doing it on line or off. In the industry I work in, telecommunications, I bump into people I've worked with before all the time, sometimes I even bump into people who graduated from the same high school as me and more than once I've bumped into one of my old classmates. In my world, sometimes you're the boss, and sometimes you're the subordinate so it always pays to treat people with fairness, respect, and high regard because you never know... that person could be your boss one day. I've only once burned a bridge behind me in my professional life and it'll never haunt me, but usually it pays to leave a job on the best of terms with everyone because your reputation follows you where ever you go and just when you least expect it, it'll be waiting at the door to opportunity before you get there. Your reputation proceeding you could open doors or keep them closed. And watch how you drive or just behave in general in public, that old lady you just cut off could be someone who knows your momma or something! They say there's only six degrees of separation in the world which means that I know someone who knows someone who knows someone... (six times) who knows your momma. That's the true definition of a small world!

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