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How do narcissists act in the workplace? · The Mental Healness Podcast

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  What is going on, beautiful people?
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  Today we're talking about how do narcissists behave at work?
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  How do narcissists behave in the workplace?
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  How do they act in the warehouse or the office?
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  If you're new here, my name is Lee Hammock.
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  I'm a clinically diagnosed narcissist and welcome to
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  episode 992 of The Narcissist Code.
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  Boom Drum roll. Please welcome back, Welcome
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  back. Welcome back, folks.
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  So yes, narcissistic people, toxic ass people in the
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  workplace. How do they act?
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  How do they behave? What is going on inside the mind
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  of a narcissistic person that is that you, that you work with?
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  This is one of the questions that I get a lot.
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  Y'all the narcissistic person in my life is my boss or my
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  coworker and whatnot. Yeah, we're going to tackle all
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  of that in this one video. I don't like doing the series.
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  I have a video series coming up here pretty soon, but I don't
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  like doing the series on YouTube because I don't know, YouTube
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  just doesn't show them to people.
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  Let's keep it hot. So yeah, if you work with a
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  narcissistic person, right? And y'all are on the same level,
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  they typically want to get to know you.
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  I mean, so there's a lot they could.
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  So they could just absolutely ignore you, spread rumors about
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  you and make it seem like you're a horrible Co worker or horrible
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  friend or whatever that is. And but you do get the
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  narcissistic Co worker, right? That will try to get to know
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  you. That will.
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  It's kind of like they love bomb you, but they it's like a work
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  bomb because you have this, like a lot of times, if you work at
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  9:00 to 5:00 or whatever, include including commute, you
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  might spend more time at work than you do at home with your
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  family. You know more time awake at work
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  than you do at home with your family, 'cause you're sleeping
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  and you're working and whatever. It's like you might spend more
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  time at work with these people. So they might work bomb you or
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  friend bomb you or not in the workplace.
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  So now you have a work friend. You see what I'm saying?
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  Now you you're sharing your deepest, darkest secrets with
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  this person at work. You're saying y'all going back
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  and forth because you feel like they're sharing information with
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  you as well. You might have felt like you
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  might have felt like you found your best friend.
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  Then all of a sudden, the rumors thought the the you start
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  hearing the little rumors about you.
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  Like wait, wait, what? They take the information that
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  you tell them and they might use it.
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  They might weaponize it against you in other friend groups.
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  They say they're they're separate.
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  They're separate friend groups at work, right?
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  And you like you. There's a certain group of
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  friends that you certain group of people that you don't like at
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  work, but the narcissistic person happens to be friends to
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  them as well. They're going to go back and
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  forth spreading rumors about you.
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  They might talk junk about the other group of people to you,
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  but they're also doing the same thing about you to them.
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  Like a lot of narcissists are like gossip.
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  You know, they they're super gossipy, super chatty as hell.
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  They like to spread rumors. They like to, you know, start a
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  little, like start little smear campaigns in the workplace and
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  sometimes they don't know you. Like when people don't know
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  where the rumor starts. It typically starts with that
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  narcissistic person. Because there are a lot of
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  narcissists, y'all in the workplace and just in real life
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  in general. They like the scheme.
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  They like to scheme. They like to turn people against
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  each other because it makes them feel empowered.
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  They like to do things in the workplace because it makes them
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  feel like they're in control or something.
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  Even if they're like a lower level employer, entry level
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  employer, I'm going to say lower level an entry level employee.
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  They feel like they are entitled to more benefits and more things
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  because they are them. That's when you know that's one
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  of these signs of narcissism, is soup is extreme entitlement.
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  You know, sometimes they might seem like they're more covert
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  and you won't be able to tell that the narcissistic people,
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  But a lot of times you get to the workplace, you get the loud
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  boisterous person that this on the same level as you, that acts
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  like your boss, that acts like your supervisor tries to tell
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  you what to do because they feel like they're above you.
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  Just because they are them, they feel like they're entitled to be
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  above you. And if you don't, like, say, if
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  you don't get in line with what they want, that's when the
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  rumors will start. That's when they might try to
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  get you fired from your job. That's when they might actually
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  start to try to. Like if you just, I don't know
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  if you have something going on at work with somebody else, they
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  might try to take your work life and interfere with your family
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  life. They might start telling him
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  spread the rumors to your household about you.
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  Hey, so Lee leaves at work. Just so you know.
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  I know. I don't know, he leaves at work.
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  Your I work with your husband, Lee, and he's at work getting
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  close and snuggling with somebody else.
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  Just just felt like I should let you know I'm not trying to start
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  anything. I just feel like I should let
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  you know they love like that narcissist love that type of
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  stuff right there. I promise you.
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  They do. I promise you.
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  That's one of the things that narcissists love to do, that
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  they love to kind of be covertly in the workplace, covertly be
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  the center of attention, but not also be not also be the center
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  of attention. Like they're covert.
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  Like they know they started these rumors.
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  They know that they got to work the workplace in disarray, but
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  nobody really knows who can pinpoint it to except the
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  narcissist. Like, no, I did this.
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  They love watching a plan come together in the workplace,
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  especially if it leads to somebody getting fired, somebody
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  getting in trouble or friendship dissolving them getting promoted
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  or whatever, them getting put above you in the workplace.
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  That happens so damn much, though.
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  So that's what I'm telling people.
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  If you're dealing with a narcissistic person, this is
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  part of the process that you might have to encounter.
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  This is part of the things that you might have to deal with
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  right here. So that narcissistic person in
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  your life, they typically don't care how what they are doing is
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  going to affect you. You know, they typically are
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  only there to serve themselves. So they don't care how what they
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  do, their actions or their behaviors, how they are going to
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  affect you in any way, shape or form.
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  So you have to prepare yourself for that.
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  You have to get, you know, you have to keep it moving for that
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  in that dynamite in that instance right there.
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  Because if you don't then you get taught tied up in these
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  situations you know. But like I said if that, like
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  the narcissistic person in your workplace is your boss.
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  Oh my goodness. Or the CEO somebody, one of the
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  one of the quote, one of the quote UN quote higher ups.
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  It could be a whole new space to be in.
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  It could be a whole new relationship dynamic to deal
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  with. It could be a whole yeah, I'm.
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  I'd say it can drive you crazy. It can literally drive you crazy
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  because the way that they feel their mood, their mood, their
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  internal mood is going to affect the whole entire workplace.
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  Like it's really like being in a toxic, abusive relationship
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  because you don't know what person is coming through that
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  door. You don't know if your boss is
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  going to be happy or sad and that's going to affect the work.
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  That could definitely affect the affect the workplace in a
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  negative way. And they might, if you are the
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  target of their anger or their rage, even if you didn't do
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  anything to them, they're going to take it out on you.
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  So you might not have done anything to wrong this person,
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  but they feel like they need to target you.
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  They feel like they needed to take it out of you.
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  You didn't wrong me, but I'm to make myself feel better about
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  myself. I'm going to try to make your
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  life harder. So you do get a lot of toxic
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  narcissistic bosses that will try to make your life harder
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  because they are not happy with themselves.
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  Even if they are your boss, you know they act like they like.
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  Not only do they act like they're your boss, they act like
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  they they rule you like they claim dominion over your life.
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  They love y'all Narcissists love being in positions of power, and
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  I'm going to do another video about that.
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  But they love being in the position of power because it
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  makes them feel just invigorated.
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  Like, you know, when you grow up, you know, y'all might not
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  know this, but growing up as a narcissist, you feel like
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  there's a lot of stuff that's outside of your control.
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  So when you get a position of power and things are inside of
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  things, you can control things like I'm in control of things.
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  It it makes you feel so powerful to feel like you were in finally
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  in control of something. So you take that control and you
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  you you wield it like a damn sword, like you start bopping
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  people with your sword, with your controlling sword.
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  Anytime somebody said something to you, it's like you taking
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  your childhood trauma and anger out on them.
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  They unsheathed, unsheathed that childhood trauma sword and start
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  smacking their employees with it, you know, and they
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  typically, and sometimes they do it in a very covert manner.
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  It's just like being in a toxic workplace with a narcissistic
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  boss is kind of like you're the you're their children.
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  They're just like a toxic parent.
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  They have scapegoat children and golden child children slash
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  employees, you know, they have the golden employees and
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  scapegoat employees. The scapegoat employees get the
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  the crap end of the stick, so to speak.
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  The scapegoat employees get treated like crap.
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  Everything gets blamed on them. They get the they get the they,
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  they get forced to work overtime.
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  They get all the the the the crappy jobs, the crappy, you
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  know, they never get. They barely ever get any type of
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  recognition for the jobs that they do.
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  And the boss will, if they do good, the boss will take credit
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  for it. Like yeah, I I did that for
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  them. Yeah, congratulations to them.
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  But they wouldn't have done that without me.
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  You see what I'm saying? They do that type of stuff right
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  there. They pull you into it.
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  They they pull you into that space.
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  They pull you into that dynamic. They yank you in there.
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  And that's the type of stuff that they will continuously do
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  because that's what the type of stuff they like they love to do.
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  That's what narcissists love to do.
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  They love to be in control. They love to have that power.
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  They love to, you know, be in charge of things.
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  So they love to take credit for it.
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  They the scapegoat employee gets beaten down, gets blamed for
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  everything. Like you always like.
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  You always feel like you're skating.
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  You pretty much always feel like you're skating on thin ice.
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  Pretty much. That's the saying that a lot of
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  people use. You're skating on thin ice
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  because this toxic, narcissistic boss makes you make, makes the
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  workplace damn near unlivable. Like, you know, I don't.
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  My workplace feels uninhabitable.
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  It's so toxic here. I hate working here.
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  I hate being here. So a lot of people get into
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  these spaces where that's the dynamic right there.
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  Yeah you fall into this space you fall into this kind of chasm
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  of toxicity in the workplace but the golden employee gets the
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  praise you get praised you damn near or the you you damn near
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  all the bosses kid you know you're like the bosses child
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  which in that space right there you like the bosses child like
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  they treat you like a kid like they're they're they're they're
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  model like if they the boss sees themselves in you so they treat
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  you good you get the praise you know you like the second in
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  command sometimes and whatnot you know other they they use
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  triangulation in the workplace as well.
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  Where they will turn, they will put.
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  They will pit employees against each other like they will pit,
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  like put the golden employee against the scapegoat employees.
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  You know, to make it feel like they they will just give the
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  scapegoat, the the golden employee, all the praise, making
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  the scapegoat employees jealous. So the scapegoat employees might
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  not like the golden employee. You see, that's how isolation
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  works in the workplace as well. Because people don't want to be
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  around the golden employee because they feel like he might
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  tell or she might tell or they just like, you know, they're
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  brown. What do you call a brown noser
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  or whatever? You know, you stick your face.
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  Somebody's but, you know, being a brown noser.
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  But that happens just like they're right in that space.
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  They turn people against each other in the workplace and just
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  like the lower level narcissistic person in the
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  workplace, they love to, when they plan comes together, they
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  love being able to take credit for everything that happened,
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  that happened, everything positive that happens within the
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  space, within this dynamic. You know, that's how it goes.
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  That's how it happens. That's the space that a lot of
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  people fall into. That's the dynamic that a lot of
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  people fall into. So you have to be ready for that
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  in the workplace because. And it's tough.
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  Yeah, I'm not trying to make it sound like it's easy.
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  I know this stuff. I know it's tough dealing with a
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  narcissist. I am a narcissist.
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  I have a person. I understand the space that a
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