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How to tell if your co-worker is a psychopath
news.com.au ^ | Sep. 13, 2016 | Emma Reynolds

Posted on 09/14/2016 9:54:33 AM PDT by PROCON

We’ve all had that co-worker at some point: superficially charming, supremely self-confident, but they’ll walk over anyone to get ahead and not feel a second’s remorse.

Perhaps, after you were burned yet again, you half-joked that they must have a personality disorder.

Today, experts believe it’s very possible that your colleague is a psychopath.

Groundbreaking research presented at the Australian Psychology Society Congress in Melbourne this week reveals that one in five corporate workers may have the disorder — as many as in the prison population.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: coworkers; disorders; psychology; psychopath; workers; workplace
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To: Panzerlied
If they charge at you with a deadly weapon while screaming, “KILL, KILL” they are are probably a psychopath.

Or muslim, but that would be redundant.

21 posted on 09/14/2016 10:30:08 AM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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To: heartwood

Psychopath are not always criminals either. While they might not have any feelings for anyone they are practical in a sense. They know that certain behavior could land them in jail..so, avoid doing anything criminal.


22 posted on 09/14/2016 10:33:19 AM PDT by Leep (Just say no to half dead hillary and wrong lane kaine!)
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To: wbill

ha


23 posted on 09/14/2016 10:33:26 AM PDT by heartwood (If you're looking for a </sarc tag>, you just saw it.)
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To: PLMerite

Hitlery Clinton is not stupid,…she is dangerous.....notice the callousness toward the death of Ambassador Stevens? Vince Foster? Jerry Parks? Ron Brown? Ty Woods,.... A very evil & dangerous woman.

Any woman who would murder her first child (because he would be born a male) and let Chelsea live has a very cold heart.


24 posted on 09/14/2016 10:34:32 AM PDT by Trump_vs_Evil_Witch (Huma Abedin + Hillary Clinton => Muslim Brotherhood asset, lesbian spy ring)
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To: PROCON

If your co-worker screams “Allah Akbar!” that’s a sure sign.


25 posted on 09/14/2016 10:57:23 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (You can't spell TRIUMPH without TRUMP)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Mindboggling how everyone who works with those “manages up” types knows exactly what’s going on, yet the bosses are clueless and refuse to believe anything negative about them.


26 posted on 09/14/2016 10:57:54 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Trump_vs_Evil_Witch

I meant the woman wearing the t-shirt was merely stupid. I know Hillary is evil.

I haven’t heard about her firstborn.


27 posted on 09/14/2016 11:00:57 AM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: bgill

Some of them know, and protect the person doing the dirty work for them. I know of one instance where a director level individual threatened the head of HR when called down due to bad behavior. The CEO stepped in, and requested any HR issues with this person be referred to him. No disciplinary action was taken.


28 posted on 09/14/2016 11:04:20 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: PROCON

the article describes narcissistic personality disorder


29 posted on 09/14/2016 11:08:51 AM PDT by Revelation 911
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To: PROCON

If your coworker claims to have passed out due to heat, when it’s only 79 degrees, she’s a psychopath.

If your coworker gets caught in that lie and then claims to have passed out due to pneumonia, but never mentioned that diagnosis to coworkers who had been exposed and continued to be exposed, she’s a psychopath.

If your coworker gets caught in that lie too and then claims to have passed out due to being a woman, which means “pushing through” every illness, she’s a psychopath.

If your coworker gets caught in that lie too and then claims that FDR did it too, even though FDR’s mind worked at all times so FDR did nothing of the sort, she’s a psychopath.

If your coworker avoids medical treatment and goes to her daughter’s home, exposing her granddaughter to whatever she may have because she’s afraid of doctors or nurses who are not on her approved list discovering why she keeps having seizures, she’s a psychopath.


30 posted on 09/14/2016 11:18:40 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: PROCON

Labyrinth of a psychopath...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWrbxJdwgq4


31 posted on 09/14/2016 11:23:09 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: PROCON

To be a psychopath takes intelligence. To be an idiot............well, this is self explanatory with her.

red


32 posted on 09/14/2016 11:25:12 AM PDT by Redwood71
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To: PROCON

A psychopath is a person who has no empathy, and feels no remorse or even secretly enjoys inflicting suffering on others. The psychopath is incapable of caring about other people and only uses others for his/her own benefit or pleasure.
The psychopath is not insane; s/he knows the difference between right and wrong and simply does not care.
Describes Hillary and Obama.

A psychotic, OTOH, is detached from reality and delusional; cannot distinguish between fantasy and reality, therefore cannot distinguish between right or wrong.
Describes LGBTs, Transgenders.

So what we have here is a cabal of psychopaths, stacking our military and various government agencies with psychotics.


33 posted on 09/14/2016 11:38:25 AM PDT by mumblypeg (Forget Burning Man. Go to Man Hung On A Cross. (h/t to: HighTech Redneck))
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

That’s where I quit reading.


34 posted on 09/14/2016 11:40:28 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: PROCON

I remember two people I worked with. One was a loud mouth, wanted to kill the boss in the most horrific ways, always upset over everything. Everyone ignored him because he was just shooting off his mouth.

The other was a soft spoken church going man who for some reason made the men he worked around nervous as can be. Even 250 lb workers gave him a wide birth. There was just something “not right” about him that troubled people.


35 posted on 09/14/2016 11:58:04 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: PROCON

Easy. They can tolerate working with me.


36 posted on 09/14/2016 12:05:05 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Hillary Clinton, the elderly woman's version of "I dindu nuffins.")
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To: RegulatorCountry

Sounds like a woman I worked under at one point.


37 posted on 09/14/2016 1:30:45 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: mumblypeg

Tenure tends to bring out the crazy in people.


38 posted on 09/14/2016 1:32:34 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: metmom

I worked with a guy who was building a rocket to go to Mars. He showed me the designs. He wore a Marine outfit every day(cammo pants, green tshirt). He was never in the Marines.
Long-term tape apes tend to be a little crazy.


39 posted on 09/14/2016 1:35:08 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: metmom

I didn’t report to the person I described, but did have daily interaction. Started having panic attacks, had to take anti-anxiety meds just to go to work. Took me several months to recover from them even after I left the company. The stress of the daily beat-down was bad enough, but I never knew when or what might be the flashpoint on that particular day.


40 posted on 09/14/2016 1:51:27 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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