Reply #101: It's amazing how many......

[Jade Fox]

unbelievably awful people are put into management positions. People who respond to being given power by becoming monsters.

The worst boss I ever had was only abusive--not sociopath. The position I was hired for had had three people in it in three years. I quickly found out why. This woman was hateful. My first year-end review nearly came to blows. In retrospect, I'm amazed I didn't get fired, as I all but told her to go screw herself. But, I think she was a classic bully: she collapsed whenever someone stood up to her, and was fundamentally a coward. Thankfully, the department was re-organized shortly after my review and I was no longer her underling, and she retired a few months later. But it makes me really angry how much stress I was under that year and a half because of her viciousness.

I wish I could help you in some way. It helps me, when I have been around someone creepy, to meditate and visualize releasing that person's energy and sending it back to them. I know that sounds touchy-feely, but it seems to work.