I run a modestly successful small gardening business. It took me a year to really get it going properly. For context im in my 30s and have worked in really demanding jobs to get into a position to start something.
Ever since I went full-time my sibling has had this attitude like I just won the lottery and wont share. Other people have also started acting like im driving around in a RollsRoyce with a monocle, I don’t really get it.
I give my sibling left over gardening supplies and i’ve sub contracted another friend who lost their job. Trying to share my success when I can. Whats with the hostility? Have other people experienced this kind of thing?
Not just that, but from some of the least expected places too. My friend and I started a business in March of this year, and while we’re still hunting for our niche, we aren’t going broke either which is nice.
Most everyone was excited for us, but I will admit I was blown away when a close mutual friend of ours scoffed in my face about our prices, then went on to bad mouth us to other people about our prices even though our prices are on par with our competitors.
Like it’s one thing to not agree with the viability of a business plan, but to actively smack talk your friends’ business because you don’t agree with one thing? That just makes you look bad. Whenever I see him now, it’s nothing but rainbows and butterflies about how well things are going just to make him feel like a schmuck