Idiot Manager Tactics My recent job was the first time I've been working for an idiot manager

since I' ve attained higher awareness. It's interesting to note the tricks he's using. Th ere was a time they would have fooled me. Now, they're totally transparent. Every half hour or hour, let out a loud "**SIGH**". This creates the illusion th at you're working hard. I can tell the difference between a sincere sigh and an insincere sigh! Always look busy or annoyed. Act like you're supremely confident that you know what you're doing. Show no dou bt, even if you're clearly wrong. Take advantage of other people's natural tendency to help. Every minute that oth er people spend explaining things to you increases your ability to fake understa nding. The idiot manager has no obligation to produce actual working code, so su perficial understanding suffices. Insert yourself into every discussion. If I'm working on a nasty bug, then prete nd to listen and offer insightful advice. Repeat things you read elsewhere. Use bullying and intimidation to get your way. Schedule long meetings, so other people will agree to your wishes to get out of the meeting. Make sure you butt-kiss your superiors. You're their buddy! You wouldn't cheat o r lie to them! Treat your subordinates like the scum you know they are. If they knew anything u seful, they wouldn't be working for an ***hole like you! Make sure you tell other people as little as possible, especially those who have a clue like me. The only quotes I heard about the idiot new manager's recommend ations were indirectly via someone else. This way, if you tell contradictory thi ngs to different people, you won't get caught. If caught in a contradiction, you can always resort to a mindwipe (see below). Make sure that blame for failure is directed elsewhere. Every minor success is a huge personal victory for you. Emphasize the fact that people who don't work 80 hours/week aren't pulling their weight. Idiot managers are, of course, exempt from such a mandate. Listen and steal the ideas of people who know what they're doing. If these peopl e are smart enough to figure out you're faking it, make sure they get fired or g et disgusted and quit. Once they're out of the picture, you can use their ideas! Suppose I'm discussing potential features with a tester. Make sure you listen ca refully! Later, you may claim the ideas I mentioned as your own! I'm pretty sure the idiot new boss was trash-talking me behind my back. I can te ll it from the change in other people's attitudes. I say "The idiot new boss is an idiot". The idiot new boss says "FSK is a complainer." It's my word against h is. Who are the owners going to believe, their bestest friend or an idiot schmuc k programmer? In this manner, the idiot new boss erases my attempt to provide us eful feedback. Exaggerate the problems that other people have. Previously, I was working on sma ll annoying bugs. At the end, they were a *MAJOR CRISIS!!!*. Make sure that the

testers don't report their problems directly to the programmer; insert yourself inbetween all discussions. The Mindwipe The most powerful tactic in the arsenal of the idiot manager is the mindwipe. Th e idiot manager literally has the power to alter people's memories. Here's how i t works. In Idiots vs. Reality #2, I caught the idiot manager in a contradiction. I had p roof of "X", while the idiot manager said "not X". I was saying around to people "The idiot manager is dishonest. He said 'not X', while 'X' was true." The idio t manager knows that people will use logic to discredit him. After he found out he got caught, the idiot manager went around saying to everyo ne "X". He successfully erased all memories that he had, at any time, said "not X". I say "The idiot manager is inconsistent. He said 'not X', while 'X' is true ." Then, the retort is "What are you talking about? The idiot manager always sai d 'X'. He never said 'not X'." In this manner, my attempt to expose the idiot ma nager as a fraud backfires. When I got fired, some of the marketing owners came to speak with me afterwards. I used the example in "Idiots vs Reality #2" to offer evidence against the idio t manager. They said that the idiot manager had never attempted to take credit f or my proposed bugfix. In fact, he had gone around to everyone saying what a bri lliant job I had performed fixing that bug. In this manner, my attempt to expose him as a fraud backfired. I looked like the bad guy. If I didn't have mindwipe resistance, I would have started questioning my own memories. Someone that dishonest does not acquire the skill by accident. It is a finely ho ned skill. I was thinking "OMFG! The idiot manager performed a successful mindwipe! He eras ed all evidence of his dishonesty!" Do you have the ability to prevent other people from altering your memories? DO YOU? DO YOU REALLY? ARE YOU SURE? ARE YOU REALLY SURE? ARE YOU REALLY REALLY SUR E? If you've never said "OMFG! That idiot manager just pulled off a mindwipe!", the n you probably don't have the ability to prevent your memories from being altere d. Before I attained enlightenment, I would have assumed that my memory of the i diot manager's dishonesty was faulty. Not anymore! I've been trained by some of the world's biggest scumbags! Idiot managers have never encountered someone with mindwipe resistance. I don't know if I have partial mindwipe resistance or full immunity. Most psychopaths ha ve probably never encountered anyone with mindwipe resistance before, so my part ial resistance should be as good as full immunity. I can't be sure. How can you be sure you've never been the victim of a mindwipe? The Rails advocate also performed a mindwipe, albeit not as spectacular and well -coordinated as the new idiot manager. When we first started using Rails, he was saying. "Rails is cool! Rails is super-productive! We'll have a working prototy pe in a month!" Three months later, he said "I always said it would take 6 month s to get something that runs." That isn't as spectacular as the new idiot manage r's mindwipe, but it still counts as a mindwipe. Did he forget, or was he coveri ng up his dishonesty? If someone is "dishonest by accident" or "dishonest by strategic sabotage", does

it matter? Either way, the consequences are the same. A small software company can't afford dishonesty about basic software engineering practices. You can get away with that in a large corporation, but not a small startup. The mindwipe tactic is an important, critical concept. It is a key component of the manner in which psychopaths cement their control over everyone else. The idiot manager is truly dangerous. In a large corporation, he can always shif t the blame to others and make a career out of it. In a small startup, the psych opathic idiot manager is the kiss of death. The idiot manager will singlehandedly ruin your business, while you're congratul ating him for doing such a brilliant job.