A Bully Brief

All cruelty springs from weakness." (Seneca, 4BC-AD65) A Bully aka A Group of Bully(s): uses gossip, back-stabbing or spreads rumours to undermine, discredit and isolate is unable to maintain confidentiality, often breaching it with misrepresentation, distortion and fabrication is inflexible and unable to evaluate options and alternatives is financially irresponsible and often has a bad credit rating uses criticism, humiliation, etc in the guise of addressing shortfalls in performance - in reality, these are for control and subjugation, not for performance enhancement distorts, twists, concocts and fabricates criticisms and allegations, and abuses the disciplinary procedures - again, for control and subjugation, not for performance enhancement is drawn to positions of power and abuses that power is often like a child who has never grown up exhibits immature behaviour and poor manners is unable to sustain a mature adult conversation often exhibits a psychopathic personality, the main features of which are: an inability to tolerate minor frustrations a tendency to act impulsively, recklessly and randomly the serial bully seems to live in a bubble of the present and when challenged will spontaneously make things up; the bully genuinely seems to believe the fabrication; from a psychiatric viewpoint this could be called confabulation; from a moral viewpoint, it's called lying