Most people look up to a person possessing power and authority with respect and obedience. That is what gives social order and peace in a society, but more often than not, power and authority are probably the most abused attributes a person can possess. Instead of using them to lead and inspire people to transcend human mediocrity, these suppose to be leaders use power and authority to exploit, manipulate, intimidate and shortchange people for their own aggrandizement.

My boss is the worst I have ever worked for and nobody probably beats her for being a sociopath. She chooses employees who hardly have any education so they won't question anything she wants them to do including letting them work 70 hours a week and paying them a per day rate instead of per hour. She even takes it to a higher level with her patients by requesting laboratory tests that are not needed just so her own private laboratory where I happen to work in will meet a higher census every month.

I was a few months into my job when she called my attention, telling me to inform her when test requests are low so she could push the patients into having laboratory tests done for them. Here is a hustler who is hiding behind a respectable profession as a doctor and using that respectability to seduce and intimidate her patients. Most of her patients, like her employees have little or no education so much so that she was able to make herself a lot of money fooling all these people.

Her assistant who pretends to be a doctor has no license, something I found out after I checked her name under physicians in the Office of the Professions website. I wonder what she does when she faces those innocent patients who have no clue as to what her level of education is. The reason I got curious about her was after she involved me in a huge scandal about a laboratory result that she apparently did not know how to interpret.

My boss, for some reason, listened to her without allowing me to defend myself. At first I did not understand why she kept embarrassing me in front of the other employees, saying that her assistant is not happy with the laboratory result. When I arrived at work, she makes it a point to ambush me down the hallway, complaining on just about anything to give me a hard time.

The way I solved the problem was suggesting that we do parallel testing with a reference laboratory. The results from that laboratory showed that I was doing my job properly. It was not the

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