Would you betray your best friend to get success?

No! Friends stick together and help eachother achieve and be happy. Betrayal doesn't even come into it. I think freinds help one another. If one happens to get a job and the other doesn't it it is just life. We don't use and abuse our friends. No.

I don't think I will betray my best friend if I will get the promotion fair and square. If ever I will be promoted, I will make sure that it is because out of my own merits, and not because I step on someone, blackmailed another, or bribed the higher ups for something. A success isn't a true success if you have to cheat in order to get it. I will just wish my friend good luck, and may the best employee win.

I'd say I don't need to betray a friend to become successful. If I have to betray a friend to become one, I'd say you can eat the job and don't you dare throw it out. I am a problem solver and I don't think I would need a high paying job that takes away more of my time to solve my problems in life. Not everything can be solved by a job. Old age is one thing a job can never solve or even a successful career at that. As for my future, I'll think up of a way that I can make it secure, comfortable and luxurious without harming other people for it. In fact I would want to even help people reach theirs. My goal and purpose in life had been to help people--not deprave them of what could be theirs and anything I have is not mine to keep anyway. A career or success in a job is not something important or definite. It's my dignity and honor that is. I can lose everything but not those. If I can't even look at myself in the mirror when people praise me, what good will it do me? All will only end in shame, depression and tears should I do a shameful thing or cheat myself of what is the right thing to do. For it isn't my mother, my father, or anyone else whose judgment I must pass. It's person in the mirror who looks at me.

People always want to win. But winning with in a dirty way wont be good long term. Maybe if I do my job so well I deserve the promotion then I'll get it if not let my friend have it.

It wouldn't mean betrayal if you win against your friend the right way. It'll even be a healthy competition. The best one wins because he deserves better. Why should it affect the friendship? Because if it does, that's when jealousy and greed settle in.

It happened to me way back three years ago but the other way around, my best friend betrayed me for a better job offer and promising career in a very sweet moves even though she knows my life stakes here. That's how far a best friend for me can go just to have a better future and you are right jealousy is the main reason of it. I was just wondering is she really a best friend? :(

If you betray anyone to get a job be a friend or not would you be happy with yourself in the long run? Having success is great but not if you are not happy with yourself. The only way to be successful in anything you do is to be true to yourself and enjoy what you are doing. There is no way I could be either of those if I advanced by betraying another person. I strongly believe in honesty and loyalty and if I don't have those things I have nothing.

I would say, I will work hard for the promotion but without any betrayal, without doing any out of the place job and without being a weasel about it. I would do it with certain ethics in place. I would not betray my friend, back stab him or any which sense harm him. Yes I will work hard, extremely hard but the promotion will be given to me if I deserved it.

If you care more about what level of job you have than -about how much you love your friends, then throw the friendship away (don't 'slam & triple-lock the door to friendship,' but don't hold it so-close ... tie yourself to the job, and let the friend tag along if they want). The company doesn't care if you like the job or if you like your friend more, they only care if you can do the job as well as- or better than-any of the other applicants, faithfully obeying orders and righteously judging the situations (possibly making this 'would you sell out your friend'-test part of the decision).

To be honest,I would never do so.Betraying anybody is something I can never do.And if I am forced to stab my friend or anybody at the back,I would not be able to sleep at night.Of course,I will succeed,but such a success would be haunting.The joy of success would get lost.My contension is,everyone must get what he or she deserves.If my friend deserves it,let him succeed.I can't stab him at the back.

No, why should I betray my best friend just to be successful? I will just do my best to be successful rather than a burden with my best friend's success. For me, a friend is already a family and an extension of my self. I treated him or her as a friend because he's been nice with me and betraying him is a very bad idea. I think it's inhumane. If he can be successful, I can be also and I can achieve that without doing anything nasty with him.

betrayal is such a nasty word for this it's more on competition, human instinct is wanting to win the game, to race and to compete. I think there's nothing wrong to compete with your best friend but be sure that you will not get yourself notice since in reality it will be hurtful to a best buddy that you had that your putting yourself to compete with him. Good luck!

Hell no, I don't care how much I'd get paid. Money can only give you so much, good friends are hard to come by and should be appreciated.

we should be practical nowadays, as the people changes and society changes we can talk to our bestfriend that job is job only, and no personal involvement. we should be happy if our bestfriend are get the promotion and vice versa.

No I would never betray my friend to get a job/promotion over them. I would work at my best and work the hardest I could to get that job/promotion and in my opinion, may the best person win. If I were to get the job over my friend, then it was meant to be if my friend were to get the job over me then it was meant to be. And I would congratulate them on getting the job. I think any friend that would betray their friend in a bad way just for a job is not a true friend after all. Why ruin your friendship for a job. Is it truly worth losing that friend for a job. I think not.

You see that is why I don't really mix friendship with jobs or such. And I don't see how I would betray a friend for success. I mean if I am going after success, I wont make anyone stop me but at the same time I will never step on anyone really to reach there. I hope you understand what I mean. If success means i have to used my friend to get something then break the friendship then I will try to find another way to accomplish things. But if it means working for success and the only worry is my friend being jealous then that would never stop me.

The betrayal of a best friend is too high a price to pay just to have success. It is just not worth it. I could never feel good about myself and having any kind of comfort or happiness in my success if it came at the loss of my best friend. I would rather keep the friendship and lose the success.

I would probably assess the situation well. And probably talk to my friend about it. I do not want our friendship to be affected.

Hi, It is not at all desirable to do betray with the best friend. We should achieve success through our sincerity and dedication and it should never be achieved through oily words, bribe or betray. Once, your friend will know it and then he/she will not stand beside you. Others will also may not take it easily. Then once you will see that there is nobody around you. You may not be an reputed person. Have a very nice day.

hmmmmm depends. for the sake of discussion. I might. bwhahahahaha.... specially if the competition is about who will get the job of assisting George clooney. oh well, I will really fight for it.