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Richmond Odufisan's avatar

I’m gonna be honest I couldn’t follow the whole story, but I got the general sentiment Cody and this is EXACTLY what I’m going through now being in a PhD program. It was this realization that Imbeing manipulated that subconsciously pushed me back to faith. I didn’t even realize it. And I now have a clarity that scares those who want to use me. Yet, I remain kind and gentle, because I can never allow this system to take away my softness, I can never ever allow it to brutalize me. Never. Ever ever.

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I switched jobs 8 times in 10 years because of bosses like you described, Cody. They are almost everywhere.

I never engaged, I only observed, listened to others and then prepared my exit. It was exhausting, constantly starting over again.

One thing I observed at all of these employers: Those bosses and their bosses and HR, they are all in it together. It's them against everyone below them. They understand that they need to stick together, appear as one force. This way it is much harder for anyone to go after them.

A lot of them are grossly incompetent, but that's exactly why they are in those positions. They take instructions and will do anything, to stay in the position of power that they are in. Why? I think they know that they are incompetent, dumb and useless and that in nature they would never reach a level where they would be in charge of anything. They are the ones that get pushed around and pushed away, the bottom of the bottom feeders. But in the upside down world we are living in, those types of people always get promoted to the very top, because they are the most perfect puppets. They will do anything for having power over the people who they envy.

The only option I see for us people who know how to do actual work and achieve something, we also need to stick together. We also need to be one force. But not in a way where those two forces then collide. Then we would be like them. No, we need to be Trojan horses. Bullshit our ways to the very top. Those other folks need to think we are 100% one of them, no doubt in their minds. Then, once at the very top, we need to reveal our ture force and make them pay. They are prepared for a head on fight, not for a silent takeover behind the scenes.

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