What if a "manager" shut down an entire airline, just to hold the staff and more importantly the government to ransom over industrial action policy?
Would that qualify?
Bearing that in mind, does that person meet a selection of the aforementioned criteria I've cherry picked below?
- is a convincing, practised liar and when called to account, will make up anything spontaneously to fit their needs at that moment
- is glib, shallow and superficial with plenty of fine words and lots of form - but there's no substance
- relies on mimicry, repetition and regurgitation
- is self-opinionated and displays arrogance, audacity, a superior sense of entitlement and sense of invulnerability and untouchability
- is a control freak and has a compulsive need to control
- displays a compulsive need to criticise whilst simultaneously refusing to value, praise and acknowledge others, their achievements, or their existence
- shows a lack of joined-up thinking with conversation that doesn't flow and arguments that don't hold water
- flits from topic to topic so that you come away feeling you've never had a proper conversation
- refuses to be specific and never gives a straight answer
- undermines and destroys anyone who the bully perceives to be an adversary, a potential threat, or who can see through the bully's mask
- may pursue a vindictive vendetta against anyone who dares to held them accountable, perhaps using others' resources and contemptuous of the damage caused to other people and organisations in pursuance of the vendetta
- gains gratification from denying people what they are entitled to
- is arrogant, haughty, high-handed, and a know-all
- often has an overwhelming, unhealthy and narcissistic attention-seeking need to portray themselves as a wonderful, kind, caring and compassionate person, in contrast to their behaviour and treatment of others; the bully sees nothing wrong with their behavior and chooses to remain oblivious to the discrepancy between how they like to be seen and how they are seen by others
- is convinced of their superiority and has an overbearing belief in their qualities of leadership but cannot distinguish between leadership (maturity, decisiveness, assertiveness, co-operation, trust, integrity) and bullying (immaturity, impulsiveness, aggression, manipulation, distrust, deceitfulness)
- is constantly imposing on others a false reality made up of distortion and fabrication
and my favourite...
is mean, stingy, and financially untrustworthy