..run much better that with the office psychopath. How does the office psychopath create a "virtual reality" so as to be seen as valuable, even irreplaceable ?
This is the "mission" part of upper management, but middle management will get the ire of the workers.
Let us say your company has a project, and at the beginning, the project was launched with fanfare, all the initial growth and development steps were undertaken and all is well for a few years.
Now, with external environment changes, lets say the project had to be reconsidered, changed its purpose, dumped, scuttled etc. How would you go about the shrinkage? the turn around? the management of this daunting task? Think of the manpower, the perception of the public?
This is where you would hire and ask the would be manager applicants to present you with a plan to manage such a situation.
So office psychopath comes up with systematic failure plans Managed morale breakdowns and in the end, people will blame each other and no one knows exactly what went wrong.
Brilliant, says Vice president/human resources who hired him.Ok, implement it, ….
by QuiteNew (Level 6)
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Ok, implement it, say he or she.
You’re hired.
This is my office psychopath conspiracy theory………………..;-]
(terrific info. by QuiteNewAroundHere)
To prairieprincess
The office psychopath knows how to survive in the matrixed organisation.
I was wondering if the matrixed organisation is a creature of the office psychopath
Testing never pinpointed a deteriorated component.
Proper testing would have pointed to the deteriorated component.
(therefore proper testing was not done).
If the office psychopath has greatly deteriorated one of the components or subsystems, the office psychopath might insist on testing it with the rest of the system.
During the system test the office psychopath can arrange that any failings are blamed on one of the other subsystems.
Might not a person realise that because of Murphy’s Law they will need to be self-reliant and build reliable teams in the organization.
They do this, working with the material they have, building
unreliable people into reliable teams.
Not everyone might appreciate their efforts.
Someone might seek to oust them.
Couldn’t blame them if they morphed into an office psychopath and ousted the person trying to oust them.
Doesn’t sound like your normal office psychopsth though.
.. blackmail ?
Your typical office psychopath in a safety-critical software position has done things like :
swap Left and Right controls for a robot, perhaps a torpedo,
and issued the doctored software perhaps with advice to watch how it works at sea.
doctored algorithms, good heavens, perhaps for surface to air missile software and test software, and "released" the doctored software.
Why would it be blackmail to indicate that this is part of their track record and that you expect improvement.
To dlin – terrific. thanks.
No, the office psychopath doesn’t think like that. The greatest fun for the office psychopath is the game. And the name of the game is, "last one standing’s the winner." They love to kill off their opponents, one by one. THAT is the joy of the game to them. They don’t even necessarily want luck. The office psychopath is sadistic. They love the taste of blood. Yours!
[info. supplied by Geri9394]
who may already be on board ? (Simply running tests we are supposed to run, would show up the office psychopath. The office psychopath will be discouraging staff from running scheduled tests).
from robink71, Hey ffantasizing, the typical office psychopath is in it for more money, attention possibly from their supervisors or bosses, to climb that latter of success by knocking out the competition. It could be they just want a certain position and so the person who is in that position, is the main target. Someone who’s main objective is to cook the books is a flat out criminal as far as I can tell, a criminal psychopath.
Except he won’t be called that.
Suppose a contract is signed for a large system.
64 of your staff are watching the project, ensuring all goes well.
The office psychopath impedes the project.
The 64 people now look expensive in the project that is now running late.
The 64 people are replaced by a contractor.
The "office psychopath" can ignore the contractor’s requests.