The Gossip, the Bully, and the Attention Seeker
They thrive on the notion that others fear them. Every office has at least one employee who gets off on wielding his or her power over others — regardless of whether that power is real or perceived. This type of bully wants to be the center of the action at all times. These bullies also have a tendency to coax personal info out of new employees — only to use it against them later. This is an employee who sees himself or herself as absolutely indispensable and expects recognition for everything.
Wannabes will demand that everything is done their way — even when there are better ways of doing things. What these bullies offer in technical skill, however, they severely lack in emotional maturity. Gurus see themselves as being superior to their co-workers.
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Intelligent, well-spoken, charming and charismatic, sociopaths are the most destructive bullies of all. They have absolutely no empathy for others, yet they are experts at manipulating the emotions of others in order to get what they want. These bullies often rise to positions of power within the company, which makes them extremely dangerous.
Sociopaths tend to surround themselves with a circle of lackeys who are willing to do their dirty work in exchange for moving up the ranks with them. The best defense a company can have against workplace bullying is a clearly worded policy that prohibits any type of bullying behavior. Turnover is a reflection on management.
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Good staff leave a manager, not a job. Not my managing style. Yeah, but when employees like the work, and they can transfer, they are constantly moving away from bad managers. I know somebody who fell into a location with a bad manager. The greater workplace community knows about the manager, but nobody warned my friend. Too few people speak out, or take action. What does it mean when the ones that Left for what they thought were better paying jobs or a Disneyland job lol what they thought it was going to be, out of the 11 that left 9 came back wanting there job back, and what about the 4 that have been with me for the last 7 years?
Thanks for your critique. Much appreciated always looking for others opinions. Also, some employees are not moved to speak up. The Directors on the other hand thought that when we did not speak up we had nothing to offer. I also feel she may have grown out of the drama queen behaviour eventually, although she still needed to be the centre of attention in any group of people. I also found him to be a little narcissistic. He ended the short relationship with me and then immediately wanted to resume it.
By that time I had experienced the effect of some of his behaviour and was not interested. For a time he manipulated people he knew into phoning him when they saw me around the town, apparently so that he could talk to me. He told people I was the love of his life. It was never convenient for him to leave whatever he was doing to try to meet up with me: The only reason I have mentioned this man is that to me these are interesting examples of attention-seeking behaviour.
I believe that part of the reason he liked bullying me was that he enjoyed the feeling of power this gave him and the attention he got within the team: She can appear furious if the focus of attention moves away from her. My relative and her sisters went to school in the very small town she now lives in.
It seems to me that some of her behaviour now involves trying to prove that she is of higher status and wealthier than most of the people she knows. He is extremely hard-working and very down-to-earth. It seemed to me that his role in the marriage was to deal with generating the very comfortable income, whilst she took on the role of conspicuous consumption.
Well, she did have more time to do this. My relative divorced her husband, but I believe that now she thinks she may have made a mistake and may want to reconcile with him.
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She seems to me to watch too many tv programmes about the lifestyles of wealthy women which she appears to want to emulate. I blame my former employer for causing the ensuing situation.
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The latest reason for hating me seems to be the misinterpretation that their mother died so that I could make money. To continue making nasty comments then lament the fact that I reply when I have warned her through this blog that I would seems to me to be pure attention-seeking! Many people receive attention without them noticing; pointing this out to an attention-seeker may help. They may then realise that they do not need to do anything at all to receive the attention they want.
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A background check may reveal that this is not the first time she has had this happen to her. This might include feigning or exaggerating illness, playing on an injury, or perhaps causing or inviting injury, in extreme cases going as far as losing a limb. Severe cases may meet the diagnostic criteria for Munchausen Syndrome also know as Factitious Disorder. The illness or injury becomes a vehicle for gaining sympathy and thus attention. The attention-seeker excels in manipulating people through their emotions, especially that of guilt. It's very difficult not to feel sorry for someone who relates a plausible tale of suffering in a "poor me" melodrama.
A person falsely claims they are the victim of abuse, sexual abuse, rape, bullying, etc as a way of gaining attention for themselves. Such crimes are difficult to prove at the best of times and their incidence is so common that falsely claiming to be an abusee appears like a simple, plausible way of getting sympathy and attention. A variation on this is to make the claim online, in Internet chat rooms and forums, where the facelessness and anonymity afforded by the Internet makes it easy for the attention seeker to say what they like without the prospect of any penalty.
The alleged crime never gets reported to the authorities, for obvious reasons.
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When called to account and outwitted, the person instinctively uses the denial - counterattack - feigning victimhood strategy to manipulate everyone present, especially bystanders and those in authority. The most effective method of feigning victimhood is to burst into tears, for most people's instinct is to feel sorry for them, to put their arm round them or offer them a tissue.
See "histrionic behaviour", above. There's little more plausible than real tears, although as actresses know, it's possible to turn these on at will. Feigners are adept at using crocodile tears. From years of practice, attention-seekers often give an Oscar-winning performance in this respect. Feigning victimhood is a favourite tactic of bullies and harassers to evade accountability and sanction. When accused of bullying and harassment, the person immediately turns on the water works and claims they are the one being bullied or harassed - even though there's been no prior mention of being bullied or harassed.
It's the fact that this claim appears only after and in response to having been called to account that is revealing. This person confesses to crimes they haven't committed in order to gain attention from the police and the media. In some cases people have confessed to being serial killers, even though they cannot provide any substantive evidence of their crimes. Often they will confess to crimes which have just been reported in the media. Some individuals are know to the police as serial confessors. The false confessor is different from a person who make a false confession and admits to a crime of which they are accused because of emotional pressure and inappropriate interrogation tactics.
Narcissism occurs to different degrees in different people and it's more prevalent among business leaders than in the wider population. When it gets out of control, the short-term benefits to the business are outweighed by long-term unsustainability which can and often do lead to disaster. However, staff turnover was often high and morale low amongst those doing the work and interacting with clients. In each case, the relief of others' suffering changed from being an objective into a vehicle for gaining attention.
In some situations, more money was spent the consequences of the serial bully's behaviour than was spent on clients. See case histories 1 and 3 and 10 for typical examples. Lynne Forrest's article The Faces of Victim about the drama triangle persecutor, rescuer, victim makes excellent reading.
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