How to spot an abuser early on
Jul 23, 2020
Afraid you won't be able to detect an abuser on your next job interview? In his book Bully in Sight: How to Predict, Resist, Challenge, and Combat Workplace Bullying: Overcoming the Silence and Denial by which Abuse Thrives, Tim Field outlines these bully characteristics:
- Cavalier attitude
- Delegation and dumping
- Differing values
- Divided loyalty
- Duplicity
- Envy
- Evasiveness
- Failure mentality
- Fait accompli
- Favoritism
- Focus on the victim
- Frequent moves
- Humorlessness
- Inability to cope with failure
- Inability to plan ahead
- Inconsistency
- Indecision
- Ingratitude
- Insatiability
- Insensitivity
- Insincerity
- Interference
- Imposition
- Jekyll and Hyde persona
- Know-it-all attitude
- Lack of competence
- Lack of contingency planning
- Lack of foresight
- Misrepresentation
- Mood swings
- Need to assert authority
- Negative language
- Opportunism
- Plagiarism
- Poor judgment
- Poor listening skills
- Resoluteness
- Rigidity
- Self-importance
- Selfishness
- Shifting goalposts
- Short-term thinking
- Short-term memory
- Spinelessness
- Steadfast self-reliance
- Taking credit
- Trivializing
- Untrustworthiness
- Unwillingness to accept responsibility
- Unwillingness to acknowledge
- Unwillingness to apologize
- Unwillingness to communicate
- Unwillingness to cooperate
- Vindictiveness
Remind yourself of these traits and look for evidence of them next time you job hunt.
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