I’ve met what I consider to be a true blue sociopath, it’s like full aposematic response from the first encounter. “Whatever that thing is, it isn’t human, and it should be killed with fire for the good of the tribe.”
Imagine if something fairly intelligent but not human, like an octopus, put on a human suit, and come one rainy Monday, they’re your new coworker.
The human suit looks about 50, and it’s wearing American Eagle shit from the mall!? This is a factory, that’s throwing money away. Also there are no teenage girls who would give a shit about what you spent on mall clothes at the factory.
The octopus in the human suit doesn’t have a car. They are wearing $400, but they don’t have a car.
The factory runs custom built machinery, so no, despite the octopus running a program that demands it portray intimate knowledge of the equipment because of outlandish claims made on their resume, it can’t have seen this control panel before, and lo, it starts pushing random buttons while the machine HAD been working perfectly normal.
“What are you doing?” The supervisor asks the octopus. “Fixing it” says the octopus. Lo, nothing was fixed. There is now a box of scrap.
The next day, your supervisor’s supervisor comes up and asks “what happened yesterday? I heard you made a lot of scrap.”
“Oh, that was the octopus.”
“Not what I heard!”
“Well, you should ask Supervisor.”
The octopus tried to rat you out UP THE CHAIN for something THEY did IN FRONT OF THE SUPERVISOR.
Also, somehow, they don’t understand how rapport works. Their whole plan depended on them either being more well liked or more trusted than you, on their first day, when you’ve been there for years. Mind boggling.
Of course it wasn’t going to work. A normal person would’ve seen that and stopped themselves from the whole chain of events. You can go crazy from wondering what the fuck goes on in their head.
