Invisible: the servant class

[jaelmara]

New Orleans, a city whose very core is its eccentricity, our landmarks a side show attraction, and the mysterium shrouding the city whose cemetaries are above ground the stuff of Ann Rice novels

Comments

[apeliotes]

How long is this going to go on? Your husband graduates this summer?

You really shouldn't be waiting tables. It will be fodder for your writing later in life, and it surely has given you all sorts of experiential wisdom which you will one day impart to someone's children some day (I hope your own), but, still...

Yes, I know--I'm skirting by your point. I don't like it anymore than you do, but can it be helped?

sociopathy

[jaelmara]

not sure... I'm reading a book right now that suggests that as many as 4% of society is sociopathic. The irony is that the American Way of independence, risk-reward, and bottom-line ism, make perfect breeding ground for awarding the sociopath, and thereby promoting him/her into positions of relative power. Not always to the top of any organization, but with just enough power to bring misery to the lives of those beneath.

I'm starting to think this about at least one, if not two of my colleagues who rank higher than me. And I've had a boss in a previous job that I'm pretty sure was a sociopath, everyone called her "the Ice Queen". yeah...

problem is, when they know you're vulnerable, then they exploit that. What does the book say to do? As a therapist she says that she never gives this advice, but for the sociopath you cannot abide by the normal rules: AVOID. Avoid them and their schemes, even giving polite formalities as you would to the rest of society.