[corporatekaiju]

I'm not sure how to handle it.

After I was fired I wanted to start up my own company and invited some friends I'd worked alongside for many years to come aboard. They decided not to,fair enough.Then 6 weeks later I get an invitation to a launch party of the business they've set up with other people. Obviously I was hurt by that, and really a text would have been nice, but I let it go.

3 months in they post angry messages on my business official YouTube page and send me a ranting email because I've used companies I've worked for in the past in my portfolio. I'm a freelance partnership, this is perfectly fine. I can see their point, but I don't apprechiate the way they've gone about it. One complaint was that I used a picture of me with a camera, from behind the scenes of a student film project. This seems petty,but I let it go and say if they had done the same there would have been no complaints from me.

Now this isn't fully one sided I'll admit I take the piss out of stupid mistakes they make, and I use them as a direct comparison to ourselves. We are significantly more successful. I do make cheeky comments.

I notice on their personal Facebook pages they start taking the piss out of some of the work I did which I defended because I was pleased with it.

So one night, I make a mistake, I out as a joke under their comment (cough use us instead) could they have deleted this? Yes. Instead they both take the piss out of my work, which naturally leads me to point out my success.

My friend goes off on one and says she doesn't see my problem with them, we're not competition, that I'm always being rude to them, that she doesn't want me as a friend.That they have never been rude to me.

I know better than to retailiate, I've tried phoning but she won't take my calls and I'm supposed to be going camping with the other one next week.

What should I do? IIs it totally my fault? Could it just be jealousy? Frankly I don't have the time to be spying on them or constantly being rude to them so maybe they're just paranoid.

[Fr_Chuck]

IF you are friends, or where, invite them to a dinner, and decide not to attach each other, you tell them you are sorry first, to try and end the war.