Thanks for sharing. I left a sociopath 10 years ago... and I still have angry feelings towards him. That bastard would be so charming and nice to your face; m

Thanks for sharing. I left a sociopath 10 years ago... and I still have angry feelings towards him. That bastard would be so charming and nice to your face; meanwhile, he was sabotaging my career behind my back, while I trusted him completely. His goal was to replace the CTO of our small company; and he knew that as long as I was around, the CEO wouldn't give in to his blackmail. So he set about poisoning the CEO about me. We worked mostly on government contracts. The CEO had cofounded another company (with blessings of the directors), and wanted some source code that we had worked on. I wasn't sure if it was legal to share the code, so I went to the Sociopath and asked him (since he had been there longer than me). He told me, in clear terms, that we were not supposed to share the code. So I tried to ignore the CEO's order, buying time, putting him off. Little did I know that Sociopath had gone to the CEO and told him that, for whatever reason I did not want to give him the code, despite his repeated requests for me to do so. Things simmered for a few weeks, until one day the CEO dresses me down in public: why are you not giving me the code, when Sociopath has also told you to? I was shocked; and then things started falling into place. I realized that for the last year or two, he had been slowly poisoning CEO against me. Little incidents that seemed strange now suddenly started making sense. Fuck this shit, I said, and quit after a few weeks. After taking some time off to heal, I found another job and washed my hands off that shitty gig.