This is not something i come across in my everyday work, but i have seen tendensies from time to time in less serious organizations. Something that i think we should be aware of is that not all people think and act the same way as ourselves. The characters that we sometimes think just exist on a movie screen as a matter of fact also live beside us in real life. People with disturbances of literally psychopathic nature have a tendency to end up in management positions as the society today is sometimes awarding the qualities that comes with that kind of nature. Paranoia and theories of conspiracy, you might say, but both me and other colleagues have met people in these positions that, besides from taking the kind of descisions that you mention, also lack any kind of ability to show sympathy for other people. I hope to god it stays with just a couple of these cases and that it is not something style-forming for the society.
Life is a pitch, then you dive.
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