Is anyone else convinced they're working for a sociopath? Not like a violent one but their boss definitely doesn't have any empathy or human feelings?

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I used to work for someone who would strike me that way. I didn't think he was dangerous or anything, but he just didn't have much human warmth, for lack of a better term. It was all business for him, and everything more or less got reduced to numbers. The weird thing is that he was successful, and it made me realize there really are places in the modern world for people like that.

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Totally. I have a few people who have chosen the job over their humanity.

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Oh yeah, I get that sense about several of the people I work with.

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Sometimes I do have to wonder. People genuinely are clinically sociopaths and just operate differently. Then sometimes I wonder if they are just the personification of a professional and they do not have any emotions inside the workplace. Hard to say, but sometimes the black and white of it is nice.

I'm completely convinced of it. I've seen some of the worst human behavior I've ever seen at my workplace! It feels unbelievable to say that because work really shouldn't be this dramatic but my office totally is because our boss is a legit psycho

Hahaha don’t you have to be a sociopath to work in investment banking? Kidding

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