A corporate psychopath/sociopath has the ability to present themselves as the dream employee, but once they are let in they eventually become nightmares. They are excellent actors, but in reality; they are truly callous people who lack empathy and have no conscience.

Corporate psychopaths will quickly assess other employees and place them into 3 distinct categories:

* The people who will protect and help them...
* The people who could mess their game up...
* The people who can be used by them achieve their goals otherwise known as victims.

Researching this subject has helped me. You see I fall into the third category. I was a victim twice in the same company. I learned there is no protection for the victims. I tried to get help and was eventually driven to go. This is how good the corporate psychopath is! As victims we suffer mentally, emotionally, physically and financially. It was a brutal life lesson and it cost me dearly!

Professor Robert Hare; who is considered an expert in this field, estimates that there are approximately 300,000 psychopaths in Canada alone, a small percentage of them are violent criminals. The following is a list of eight warning signs of the corporate psychopath as identified by Professor Robert Hare and Dr. Paul Babiak. I have included my real life observations:

*Glibness and superficial charm

Has a smile for everyone, and compliments everything from your clothes to your jewelery, will put down others behind their backs but are charming and friendly to their faces. Having everyone like them is a very important part of their game plan.

*Grandiose sense of self-worth

The way they dress for the office is always over the top, they have a very high opinion of themselves, and others should be honored that they speak to them!

*Pathological lying

They will lie straight to your face, they will deny the truth and have no shame when they are caught in fact, will claim ignorance or just blow it off as insignificant or turn everything around so that they look like the victim.

*Conning and manipulation

They are experts at controlling people and will use anything at their disposal in order to influence people, from revealing a confidence to threatening job loss; they constantly seek information under the guise as caring.

*Lack of remorse or guilt

They don't care if what they say or do hurts others, they laugh about it, apologies are a form of damage control only, they are very good at pretending to

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