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Posted by gatchgirl on 12-07-2006 at 01:47:
another post for the working person
Danger signs
If the corporate psychopath sounds like someone you know, grab and pen and try this quick quiz, including the kinds of questions used in Paul Babiak and Robert Hare's Business Scan 360.
Answer Yes or No to the following questions:
1. Does the boss or workmate in question come across as smooth, polished and charming?
2. Do they turn most conversations around to a discussion about them?
3. Do they discredit or put others down in order to build up their own image and reputation?
4. Can they lie with a straight face to their co-workers, customers, or business associates?
5. Do they consider people they've outsmarted or manipulated to be stupid?
6. Are they opportunistic, ruthless, hating to lose and playing to win?
7. Do they come across as cold and calculating?
8. Do they sometimes act in an unethical or dishonest manner?
9. Have they created a power network in the organization, then used it for personal gain?
10. Do they show no regret for making decisions that negatively affect the company, shareholders or employees?
If you scored at least 6 out of 10, there's a good chance you've already met what is known as an industrial or "corporate psychopath."
Source: Paul Babiak, PhD, and Robert D. Hare, PhD. Copyright 2005 Multi-Health Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Posted by gatchgirl on 12-07-2006 at 01:48:
Everyone will have to let me know how many of their bosses sound like that!
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Posted by meridianday on 12-07-2006 at 08:20:
Aye, that'll be my last manager, Colin. I can answer yes on his behalf to 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Question 2 I suspect is also yes, but I never reached a level in his little world to hear him do it.
10 is a definite, when I consider how he's tried to get people fired who weren't even on his team, purely on the basis of jealousy, and how he's manipulated a past redundancy/re-hire situation to get the person he wanted (easily led and manipulated and wouldn't argue with him) rather than the person better at the job who would have blown the whistle on what was going on in his team and with his product.
So that's 9.5 out of 10 for him. I'm very glad to have got away from him 16 months ago.
I'd have trouble answering yes to even one of those questions for the lovely manager I have now. Unfortunately, he's moved over temporarily to another area of the company but he's left his team leader to do his job, and since he's mentored the team leader on how to do it, he's doing it in a very similar way. It's the way things ought to work, really.
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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny." Posted by Metaliant on 12-07-2006 at 08:41:
I will admit, my store manager isn't best described as a corporate physcho by me but some of the answers to questions 1, 2, 3, and 10 are yes though.
I will send the quiz to my supervisor and see what he thinks and report back.
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Posted by Firebird on 12-07-2006 at 18:09:
I could answer yes to most of our management team.... hmm maybe thats where i am going wrong I need to be a psycho to understand their logic!
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Posted by Metaliant on 13-07-2006 at 18:06:
Do psychos have logic?
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Posted by meridianday on 13-07-2006 at 18:12:
They have twisted logic 
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Mallanox : "My mother was Irish and my father was an alien. I was an only child and I dress funny." Posted by Metaliant on 13-07-2006 at 18:37:
That must be painful.
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Posted by CricketBeautiful on 13-07-2006 at 19:23:
Post deleted by author, who can't seem to kick out of the maudlin mood and get some work done.
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Posted by Firebird on 14-07-2006 at 06:43:
Could the pain be why they're Psycho?
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Posted by gatchgirl on 14-07-2006 at 20:23:
I know that I have been told that I am very psychotic person and yet I only feel pain in my head when I have to work with idiots!!!!
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Posted by Metaliant on 15-07-2006 at 14:26:
I would never insult idiots by calling about 90% of staff and the majority of customers idiots and I wish I could go physco with them.
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Posted by Metaliant on 15-07-2006 at 14:27:
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I think they feel pain, if they start to actually think.
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Posted by gatchgirl on 16-07-2006 at 04:17:
Or think outside the box that society wants you to live in. They even came around asking today if we wanted to sign a petition to ban public smoking. I told them that I think it's the owners right to deceide if there is and the publics right to deceide if they patrionize the place. Thats the way I think it should be!!!
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Posted by Metaliant on 16-07-2006 at 19:43:
How can you ban smoking outside buildings when they are vechicles polluting the air?
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Posted by gatchgirl on 16-07-2006 at 23:38:
They never seem to understand that. It's like their heads are caught so far up their ass that they can't even think straight.
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Posted by Firebird on 17-07-2006 at 12:07:
Would they be so fun to talk about if they were not complete idiots?
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Posted by gatchgirl on 17-07-2006 at 20:18:
True I just feel that if you give someone an inch of control then they will feel like they own more! Not on my top list of agendas to do... give some of my freedom of choice up!
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Posted by Ronin on 17-07-2006 at 21:30:
I dont care less, Im certified myself.
I have three shrinks now. a work one, an AS one and a regular. (who loves my chutney I gave him)
Posted by Elvin Ruler on 18-07-2006 at 03:02:
I must live in a different world. My bosses are kind and caring.
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