Backstabber Report

Play Dumb And Keep Backstabber Notes

If you hear word of you being backstabbed by a co-worker, boss, or friend – play dumb and don’t make others aware you know of it. It may give you the opportunity to gain more information from others until you are ready to present the knife evidence.

In the office situation, keep notes and retain documentation that you may need down the road. This is done in the form of emails, scribbled notes to you, or other hard evidence that can be presented. Avoid private conversations, instructions, or suggestions that aren’t presented in writing.

Ask Bob or Jane to send you their idea (or support of yours) in an email to you, so they can expand on it and you can review it completely, as you want to know all their thoughts about it. Use the excuse of wanting to see their review and their ideas so that you can fully understand it, or see where it may be needing changes.

This way, when the boss, or your “team mate” indicates that it was all your fault and they had reservations, or they indicated a potential problem to you, pull out that knife they just stuck you with and show them to be the backstabbing Brutus that they are. Immediately the focus will be on them, as a lying, conniving, self-preserving slug that would kill anyone in the workplace (or their mother) to remain a backstabber with a job.

When done correctly, that is; calmly and with finesse, the backstabber may be the one who takes all the blame for a failing project, or a task that wasn’t successful at completion.