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Your boss won't get fired
Posted by Fired Fred on November 6, 2007 5:20 PM
CNN has a bunch of reasons why the twisted insane bloodsucking ghoul passing itself off as your coworker or your boss won't be fired despite needing two tries to figure out right from left.
The old standby of relationships topped the list. Sure the jerkoff isn't sleeping with the boss, but she may be playing golf with him. Or helping Uncle CEO set up the tables at the annual summer gathering on the Cape.
Yeah, you just shot your mouth off like that big-ass gun Dirty Harry used to show people before he blew .44 caliber holes in them. Woops. Shouldn't have speculated if the big boss kidnapped toddlers on his own or hired someone to do it for him.
They've got a bunch of other reasons, including one I know you've suspected...
In their book "Snakes in Suits," Paul Babiak, Ph.D. and Robert D. Hare, Ph.D., explain that a surprising number of workplaces employ psychopaths.I'm thinking 3.5 percent is pretty freaking low. What do you think? The comment section isn't just for show, ya know.
While psychopaths make up 1 percent of the general population, Babiak and Hare found that 3.5 percent of the executives they worked with "fit the profile of the psychopath."
Psychopathic employees are pathological liars who get away with doing little or no work. They charm senior management with their "leadership potential," con co-workers into covering for them, and successfully blame others for their mistakes.
I have an advance reader copy of that book thanks to my day job, the one Tucker Carlson can't touch, and I really should read it.
Posted on: November 8, 2007 8:09 AM