Archive for Backstabber Types
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The Sexual Backstabber
The sexual backstabber - probably the most abhorred of all the backstabbers to be found, because they make it personal, at a level that affects the heart and sometimes the innocent. They destroy relationships and trust. This is the backstabber that requires another backstabber. Two peas in a pod,...
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The Boss Backstabber
Occasionally, the backstabber will also be the boss of the person being stabbed. In the movie “Working Girl,” Sigourney Weaver demonstrated how a boss can use the idea and effort of a subordinate and claim it as their own. Unlike the movie, there is rarely a "truth comes out" ending. Many...
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The Complaint Backstabber
The complaint backstabber is the next level above the whining backstabber, who cries to co-workers. Our complaint backstabber is sometimes referred to as a snitch, rat, slug, and other derogatory nomenclature. Though an easily defined line exists between someone making a formal complaint regardin...
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The Whining Backstabber
The whining backstabber can be found anywhere. Though closely related to the Complaint Backstabber, they don't go over your head - formally. This backstabber will instead whine and complain to your peers and subordinates about you, instead of speaking with you directly. Whatever their little perc...
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The Chameleon Backstabber
This is another backstabber that will appear to be a helpful team player, offering encouragement, enthusiasm, and support for your project, in private. This type of backstabber is most often found in the workplace. The chameleon backstabber will reveal themselves if a project or task runs into...
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Credit Stealing Backstabber
A credit stealing backstabber is that seemingly helpful team player who will enthusiastically support your suggestions, follow your directions, and work to make the project a big success – only because they intend to take credit for it. This will include magnifying their own role in the endeavo...
