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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 09:02 AM

MindPilot (10,808 posts)

14. Yes, it took me a long time after I entered the workforce to realize that wasn't true.

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That it wasn't me; some people are just abusive assholes. They enjoy being abusive assholes and there was absolutely nothing I could do about it. And just because someone was older than me did not automatically make them smarter.

Looking back though I can enjoy a certain amount of schadenfreude. From my 9th grade bully who ultimately drank himself to death before he made 30 to the service manager who was completely incapable of not screaming insults and went out with throat cancer, many of these people turn out to be their own worst enemy.

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28 replies	Author	Time	Post
Professions that attract the most psychopaths [View all]	RKP5637	Nov 2012	OP
I believe I saw the author on The Daily Show.	lalalu	Nov 2012	#1
Yep, I see this particularly in politicians and religious leaders, they often	RKP5637	Nov 2012	#2
Well said	lalalu	Nov 2012	#5
So	PATRICK	Nov 2012	#3
I've always felt politicians seeking high office should go through, somehow, a	RKP5637	Nov 2012	#6
That happens in clergy	PATRICK	Nov 2012	#25
Yes, I think that is a common thread endemic to the human psyche ... that	RKP5637	Nov 2012	#28
"looked up to with a gut emotional warmth sickeningly misplaced"	marions ghost	Nov 2012	#9
Yep, I think a lot has happen since about 2000 to wake up the national awareness that there	RKP5637	Nov 2012	#23
#1 should be GOP politician ;) (nt)	The Straight Story	Nov 2012	#4
Where's banker?	rucky	Nov 2012	#7
My thought too! It seems some on Wall Street and the banking/financial sectors would	RKP5637	Nov 2012	#11
I know a few doctors (medical) who fit better in the first list.	kelliekat44	Nov 2012	#8
It was interesting to see surgeons on the list. When I was in the	RKP5637	Nov 2012	#10
Although it is kind of a broad brush, this is very interesting.	MindPilot	Nov 2012	#12
In my younger years I was pretty naive, I guess. In my corporate life I thought most people	RKP5637	Nov 2012	#13
Yes, it took me a long time after I entered the workforce to realize that wasn't true.	MindPilot	Nov 2012	#14
Yep, I guess maybe/hopefully there is some kind of karma in life that	RKP5637	Nov 2012	#18
This just looks largely like bullshit to me.	cali	Nov 2012	#15
Cali, I don't think it's about the college student folding jeans at the GAP.	MindPilot	Nov 2012	#17
MindPilot is correct: Don't think of Buffy hawking clothes at The GAP.	baldguy	Nov 2012	#26
Doctors are sometimes psychopaths. Also, accountants?	Romulox	Nov 2012	#16
They were the least likely on the list. n/t	RKP5637	Nov 2012	#20
I would say once an accountant becomes an "auditor"	MindPilot	Nov 2012	#21
The big accounting firms are a huge ponzi scheme/scam. They work their accountants	Romulox	Nov 2012	#24
R#6 & K for, yip they left off politicians. & the "clergy" is dead-ON.	UTUSN	Nov 2012	#19
Yep, god works in mysterious ways so they say. They always have a line of	RKP5637	Nov 2012	#22
Not at all surprised by lawyers	jberryhill	Nov 2012	#27

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