Bullies, Crazies And Sociopaths In The Office Atmosphere!

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By Staff

Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 10:39

Are there times when you feel that the people in your office are awful? Your feel some of them show signs of being on the verge of becoming sociopaths? Well, you just might be right and really you should not blame yourself for feeling so.

According to a recent book, it is claimed that a person may find people surrounding him at work awful, while the book author has highlighted various ways in which one may have to face bad office behaviour.

"People actually get away with really bad behaviour and they do it all the time," the Courier Mail quoted Michael Stanford, author of Inhuman Resources: A guide to the psychos, misfits and criminally incompetent in every office, as saying.

"They get away with it because human nature is that we sort of accept things after awhile. At first we're shocked and then we start to accept it. Over time, companies and cultures start to accept this sort of behavior and even reward it," he added.

The book which is yet to hit the stalls in way reassures "the nice people" that the office bullies, crazies and lazies are actually as bad as they think of them to be. "I think it's important that you give people the opportunity to look at behavior and think 'that's just not acceptable,'" he said.

These bullies, sociopaths or crazies could be categorized as " 'I'm disappointed in you' person," they are those who patronize younger people and love mentoring without being actually helpful. The next is the 'I'm actually really nice' person, they are the most common of the misfits.

They would send emails complaining about you, telling everyone how you messed up something, but just the next moment they would buy you a gluten free cake.

There are also the 'I'm just so sick, but I'm too important to go home' person. The 'I know stuff before you do' person love problems and misery, while gloat over the fact that they are better than others. You can identify them with those who are the first ones in the office to spread a bad news.

Now comes the most irritating of the lot the 'I, I . I' person, be wary of him because, he in the last minute would swoop in and claim all the credit for a work well-done but you can never find them when there is problem or an issue.

However, the author also suggests that since most of us might have traces of some of the bad qualities, we should maintain restraint and should not be too harsh. "We've all done things we probably shouldn't have in the name of paying the mortgage or thinking 'I should cover myself here," he says.

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