Happy New Year! I am back and ready to hate again 
Ah, life is grand!
I went to a small gathering of people just recently. All these people happen to work in the movie industry, namely in the same company. All of these people equally disliked one single person, for being unprofessional, consistently screwing up, and of course, being the victim. So I dug a little deeper, because as we know, I am really interested in the Muppets of the world, and the more I heard, the more I remembered stories of my own. Working in the corporate world for many years has provided me with enough material to write a book. One day I will write this book, it’s going to be called “How to manage the delusional.”
But, back to the story at hand. So, this specific person has screwed up so many times that it is now a running joke in the office. For each screw up she has an excuse and shoker, it is always someone else’s fault! Of course, updates on Facebook include great comments about being too intimidating (apparently, she is not intimidating, just highly incompetent) and my personal favorite, she is being discriminated against/disrespected because she is a woman in man’s world!
The sad thing I have witnessed over and over, is that all of these horrible performers DO believe that THEY are being wronged! None of them are ever to blame for any of their poor performances, the fact that they got reprimanded, fired, or put on a PIP. They are all one big miserable family of unhappiness and they are all victims. YIKES!
Our Australian friends asked “so, how do these people keep finding employment?” Well, there is another great way of bullshitting your way through job interviews. First of all, none of these people will ever truly have recommendations from actual managers. Nope, their recommendations come from co-workers, or people from other teams who, of course, are buddies with them or like them, but have absolutely NO clue how these guys are performing in their jobs. I know people who claim to have been managers, when they never held a management role in life and how would a future employee know this, unless he checks with their previous managers? And in a world where what you know often counts less than who you know, it is quite explainable how some of the most incompetent people keep getting hired.
No, I am not going to share my own stories of the delusional people I have managed. And come to think of it, I haven’t had too many of them. There are a lot of good, hard-working and honest people out there, who do not have more issues than a Hollywood magazine stand! But when I heard how ONE person makes entire thralls of people miserable and then blogs on Facebook how she is the victim, without as much as a single ounce of self-awareness, or self-honesty, I want to puke yet again.
How does it happen that people wake up day after day, month after month, year after year, find themselves in the same shitty situation, friendships, lack of career, issues at work, issues with friends, etc and never once look in the mirror thinking “maybe it’s me, not them?!” I guess this is why I call them delusional. Dangerously unaware of who they are, they just bs their way through life, wondering why everyone else around them is “so lucky” and they work so hard and keep getting disrespected and abused.
It’s 2010, more of the same for some, and better things for others, namely those who actually learn something from their screw ups/are honest with themselves. A thing one of my previous managers said to me yesterday was something to the effect of “it’s the people who claim to be good people, who claim they don’t know who are truly scary. Because how would you stop yourself from keep doing the wrong thing, if you don’t even think what you are doing is wrong?” I have an answer! Free therapy for all the screwed up people out there. Oh wait, I forgot, they tend to be the ones who claim they don’t need therapy. Never mind 
