I worked for a borderline sociopath for nearly 6 years. He would bare face lie to you, knowing you knew he was lying to you, and require you to agree with him o

I worked for a borderline sociopath for nearly 6 years. He would bare face lie to you, knowing you knew he was lying to you, and require you to agree with him or face the sack. He would set you up to fail with a client, telling you a pack of lies about a job, so he could wade in after you'd stuff up and 'save the day'. So you had to do two jobs, what the client actually wanted and the fake task he'd set you. It used to annoy the hell out of him when the clients reported they were really happy with my work. I stayed there that long because I had a really thick skin and the benefits of staying far outweighed leaving. I rationalised that he could sack me tomorrow, but every day I got more experience and satisfied clients. In the end he was the cause of too many other people leaving, seeding so many mortal enemies into the industry at quite high levels, he tried to blame me for 'white anting' him, but finally sacked me, that backfired spectacularly and the company folded soon after. I managed to pick up a great job off the back of what I'd done at that company so it worked out really well. I dealt with it with a thick skin. I did feel empathy towards someone who must have been treated very badly some time in their early life, could not bring themselves to trust their staff and felt compelled to lie even when the truth would have been OK. What a terrible burden to carry for someone who was quite well off. In hindsight I should have left, but personal circumstances at the time limited that option.