Crafty, cagey, cunning, corrupt, and creative, SPINIPULATORS are a unique breed of business people that cause workplace havoc.
This show offers some tangible ways to survive the ultimate workplace troublemaker. In these five minutes we define the character cocktail that combines the artful wordsmithing of a SPINNER, with the devious scheming of the MANIPULATOR. Shake this cocktail up, and the end result is a nasty, narcissistic, business nemesis driven by self-serving motives. Most of us encounter this business breed a few times during our career. We hope our episode helps you overcome your workplace SPINIPULATOR!
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Hello everybody, and thank you so much for tuning into this Simple Biz 360 podcast. My name's Jeff Mason, I'm your host as I have been since mid-October 2019. We're on episode , uh, I believe 2 33 right now, having a blast. Uh , just really appreciate you being here and if you ever wanna catch past episodes, you can go to our website, simple biz three sixty.com , uh, head to the podcast tab and you can go to any one of the five seasons there, or even audio sessions as well. There's a connection. So we're on IGTV, rumble, YouTube, and 28 Audio Platform. So today we're gonna be talking about something really cool and it's thriving with the workplace manipulator. Now , uh, this is really a fun topic for me because I've run into about six of these people in my 35 year business career. Manipulator is someone who is skilled in the art of manipulation, human manipulation, and spinning. So they combine this ability to manipulate everything in people and the spin they can put on this manipulation, manipulation, and they are a force to reckon with. Now , um, let's take a look at, you know, how do you recognize a manipulator? And again, I've been , uh, I've been with six of 'em . So , um, you know, they're crafty. They're always one step ahead of us, so they're like a half hour ahead of us to the boss with something. They tell the boss the problem first, and in most cases there are many cases. The problem is something they created and then they hijack the solution and they get to the boss first. They tell the boss about the problem, don't say, you know, necessarily who caused it. Then they tell the boss the solution, and they always do it in a way that props them up. And it basically knocks us or other people in the company down. And, you know, the , the kind of folks that when they come out of the boss's office, you , you see that little, you know, stink eye they give you like, yeah, I got you this time, but you know, here's the good news. I mean, don't panic. Please don't panic. And I did it first, but I realized you really have to play the long game with manipulators. And here's some of the long game defense. First thing is patience is a virtue dealing with this manipulator. So just be patient, put everything in writing, make sure you have everything well documented. Have it dated, have it fact-based, have it put away in a file. You can find it, you can easily retrieve it, you can easily share it. Document the timelines, make sure you have this up. Now, in essence, time is your best friend. And time will kill you here because sometimes it takes years. And, you know, out of the six manipulators that I've been involved with , uh, one of them is still going strong. I I did not , uh, overcome the situation. Four of the manipulators got their comeuppance and some of it was jail. Some of it was termination, some of it was in the form of law enforcement, three agency stings, and some of it was in the form of $500,000 embezzlements. Uh , so they got their comeuppance. But the , the , the frustrating part is you as an employee see this, you know this, you bring this to the boss's attention, you bring it to the higher ups attention, and they tell you you're crazy. You know, this , this person's a good person. You are the whack job for saying something. And, and trust me, I know it can be frustrating, but just hang in there. You know, really time will end up being your best friend. And in the end, I, I, I know this for a fact, in the end, truth prevails more than it doesn't. So just hang in there and let the truth come out. Make sure you've got everything sewn up on your end so that you can easily share it with people. And I'm telling you, it's , um, they're , they're crazy folks to combat and, and work side, you know, side by side with, I mean, they really are. But , um, you will win more often than not if you play that long game and just, you know, plug in those parameters of the long game defense, if you will. So today we're gonna leave you with this song. I , I know I thought it , what , what could we do? Well, I , you know, it's crazy. Jeff Ratal , I love Jet Rotel and he did a song in 68 called The Song for Jeffrey . So my name's Jeff. I figured , Hey, song for Jeffrey . But watch this. When you watch him play the, the , the recorder, he calls it a recorder, the flute , um, he does some wild stuff with his one leg and puts it on his other knee. It's crazy. So check it out, have some fun, and we will see you in 168 hours. Watch for those manipulators.