I tried to please everybody but I find I wasn't really helping them at all but getting them in more trouble.
For example, one time I was asked to automate some formulas on this spreadsheet to calculate the days spent from start to stop per job from this council. So I did that and they were all around the desk watching whilst this council person was explaining what he wanted me to do to the spreadsheet. So I filled in the columns that night.
A couple of weeks later the council person was asking me on the phone why the formulas in that column were missing and some with the 3 digit numbers were in there and he was not happy. The sociopath knew nothing apart from that there something wrong with the sheet and tried to blame me saying it was my fault and I was fixing it. So I restored all the formula's. I said we all make mistakes from time to time.
Some days later the psychopath asks me about me removing the figures they put in (where the formulas were to calculate the total days spent). The "psychopath" was the one inputting the data and is was their job to input and manage this spreadsheet.
They tried to blame me on that too saying I never told them about those formulas and they didn't understand, I said look you were all over me listening to what he wanted me to and watching everything I was doing.
Then the sociopath tells me the truth, "this is where honesty is not always the best policy mate etc.." they are capped at 15 days per job (use to be 20 days) and it is taking them between 20 to 40 days and if we don't make it look like we are within the cap they won't give us anymore work etc.
Anyway they asked me to "restore their lies" no problem I found a backup copy of the fabricated figures and they filled in the rest. I said next time, I'll generate the formula and you apply it and I'll teach you how to apply it so you are in control.
The sociopath told me everything was fine it was all over nothing to worry about and to stop being paranoid. I told them it is not fine, you are just buying time now that they know those formulas were removed.
The following Monday morning the sociopath was on the phone to this council man on the speaker phone and he did not sound happy. I heard him briefly say as I was walked past "No more lying... no more lying!!!... you can't keep on lying to us and we're already being lenient with you ... etc"
I heard they got a little fine for it and that was it.
They loved their internet radio, the thing is they would have it loud and be on the phone engaged and it would be rude interrupting them when I couldn't think or hear calls I pickup (not sure how they can hear being so load and close).
I provided this stereo system, speakers, computer (internet radio), amplifier, sound cards a mixer and stations can changed via shortcuts, or itunes via (shairport) a floating volume slider (opensource thing I found on every desktop so they can turn it down if it is loud and a phone call comes in.
They'd bicker fight over that as well. One of them (another family member) says "It's like blooming disco in here can't we turn it down... I said you can do it via that slider on the desktop so they did). The sociopath in a whiny 'feel sorry for voice' across the room said, "It's my office!, my office mate, I own the building they don't, I can turn up and down..." so he turned it up really loud and the response from this other family member, "can't you disconnect that speaker", I said it will be half stereo or mono, replied "what's mono?". Week later "Why can't we have a little FM radio like every shop down this street. I said we did have one before and it was better turned off... As soon as the air conditioning came on next door we could hear it when buses go past we can hear it. (Before this persons time working there). Response I got "It is NOT! democratic." I said "It IS! democratic, you can turn it off, you can change radio stations, turn the volume up and down from any computer but it is between you lot to negotiate in between yourselves what you want.
One day I wired that sociopaths house up with network cable when they moved in. The wifi router would not go far and internal phone cable was causing trouble which I sorted out. There was a flood and an opportunity when they took the floors up to do it but I only knew late when they just about finishing the decorations. I provided each room with it's own access points and some network sockets to a switch but the difficulty I faced. The sociopath said... "Look mate, you ripping me 'house to bits" and "internet will never be good... it will never be good mate" I said well when it does become good, you won't have the infrastructure to support it.
They wanted be in the sky with nothing to support them.
I thought I find out what they wanted, find solutions to systematic issues, tried to make it as ideal as I could by thinking ahead but how wrong was I. They didn't understand and didn't seem to want to. I understand it was busy there but I felt so under appreciated.
I think that is the way they are and the treat each other like that but they seem very successful at what the do, the sociopath has this gift and skill. He knows when people are being dishonest and laughing behind his back and he'll say to everyone what is about to happen and to watch.
I don't intend to work for a family firm after that but I know not every family firm is going to be like that.
Back to Elizabeth Holmes.
https://news.sky.com/story/elizabeth-holmes-has-ambition-to-rise-again-despite-being-jailed-over-theranos-case-that-gripped-world-12750541Elizabeth Holmes 'has ambition to rise again' despite being jailed over Theranos case ...
By Tom Acres, technology reporter
Saturday 19 November 2022 06:28, UK
"It's a bad bet to assume this is the last we've heard from Elizabeth Holmes," she told Sky News.
"She has the ambition to rise again and to do more.
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"I have reporting from a handful of sources who were not part of the lawsuit, who lost money in this story, but who ultimately have said they would back her again if she came back with a new idea."
Sources but which ones? After all the damage she has done and these faceless 'sources' are still backing her.
Shouldn't they be naming and shaming these sources?
So these so called sources 'would' back her again but I wonder with whose money, their own or other people's where the sources have influences in finding the gullible backers. Sounds to me like she has good connections into getting her opportunities and things.