The Company Spy:
Sunfish, is it standard operating procedure for executive sociopaths to surround themselves with incompetent and compliant underlings?
Why yes it is. The Sociopaths fear anyone who is competent and a natural leader. They actively remove them as quickly as possible to avoid any possibility of being demonstrated to be wrong about anything.
The replacements are not only incompetent, they are Sociopaths as well, because only a Sociopath will work for a Sociopath if they have a choice in the matter. Ordinary people won't lick arse they way Sociopaths require.
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