DMC, The Victim of Their Own Stories & Completely Incompetent Genius

Once upon a time at a workplace, this story deserves popcorn and an adult beverage of choice. Oh, DMC – will any story ever be real? Some fabricators somewhere along their life path choose to take the invention of small lies into great stories and facts that don’t exist, to become pathological fibbers. Every employee wants to make to a level where they are known as a subject matter expert or jack of all trades or the It person.

In DMC's case choose advance pettiness and outright lying – not here to judge. Beyond being a Victim of Their Own Stories to gain sympathy or false tales for achievements; DMC was famous for being a Completely Incompetent Genius. Just stating facts. DMC didn't like facts.

There are all different types of liars, such as: perjurer (love to lie under oath), prevaricator (formal for a person who avoids the truth or misleads), deceiver (person who tricks others into believing what is not true), and fabricator (person who invents false stories or facts). DMC was a fabulist, a fancy way to describe a person who makes up elaborate and false tales. I can see the animated crows singing a rather unpleasant tune, but DMC loves it.

Lifelong liars adapt to the practice, to gain attention, avoid shame, and as a booster for low self-esteem. The goal is to gain sympathy ultimately. That way distracts from others ever seeing the real person behind the charade. While this can happen to individuals in violent and abusive situations; you don’t tend to see it come out at a workplace. It can, but work is generally a constant haven. In the workplace, like this scenario, DMC needs to manipulate others.

Like most Disney movies, DMC was the stepsister who didn’t possess the pure qualities of the star of the movie. One sister was beautiful, one sister was smart, and one was DMC. Always jealous. Therefore would get attention with an elaborate answer or story. Facebook drama bait. The pretender of caring, then needs the attention.

College sketchy. Job history is sketchy. Personal relationship sketchy. The whole new world of being a victim opens up and a star is born. A fabricated re-write of history could be a parasite and survive by sucking the life out of another with stories of heroism and intelligence. Ugly is ugly. Wrong is wrong. Lying is lying.

By manufacturing falsehoods, others would finally see how amazingly she was. An award winning liar. The major problem with lying is that you must remember the lie told. If not, things fall apart quickly. Deflect is required, then drop another lie and gain that sympathy back. Attacking others who do possess experience, skills, and education can only get you so far.

Others most of the time were confused; how did that change happened, wait, what did she just say, and when words didn’t come, looks happened. Did she just brag about fraudulent loan documents? Did she lie to family court? Did she just show a normal document and try to make it into an abusive story?

DMC only has her created stories and admiration of voluntary consenting participants who lap it all up. Poor DMC. As the domineering micromanager of the family odd how banks filed lawsuits. Money management issues. Moral condemning, with a heavy hand of hypocrisy when attacking others; known a deflections. Because, when DMC makes an embarrassing spectacle of herself, she keeps going with it.

Examples:

• Manager writes detailed breakdown on invoice to ensure amounts charged to two different clients is accurate. As DMC has continually causes preventable billing errors. Both clients get the incorrect bills and call the manager. Manager wants to know why his clear instructions weren't followed. DMC states she doesn't do billing. Manager you are the only one who does it and have for a decade. DMC I didn't make this mistake.

• A water cooler favorite, DMC loves to brag about being an excel spreadsheet master. A spreadsheet was provided to her, columns and formulas across the column. She called the owner of the spreadsheet to state the formula was broken. Individual looked at it and asked where a column was. DMC deleted it and stated that she was calling about the formula not the column. Deleting the column broke the formula. DMC couldn't grasp that concept.

• Accuses a manager for fraud for using a company credit card. Manager asks to see the charges and why they are being accused. DMC states that the company credit will reflects on the manager's personal credit report and she doesn't have to legally show the fraud to them. Manager a company credit card is under the company's name with them as an authorized user and does not show on a personal credit report. And if you are accusing wrongdoing, you need to provide the documentation.

• Employee followed procedure to cancel insurance premium, DMC was witnessed confirming their request and never processed it. Presents employee with an amount due of over $700 and a piece of scrap paper. Instructing the employee to write a check. DMC called the employee a liar and admitted no wrongdoing. DMC was the only one with access and the witnessed went to HR.

• Another water cooler favorite, DMC stated that her former boss who retired seven years prior was no longer helping her in her role because she had to let him know she wasn't interested in an intimate relationship with him. According to the former boss, he was tired of being used. DMC added to her version that she was concerned that he would self-harm over this. He was crystal clear he didn't want anything to do with her and especially for her to stop calling him multiple times per day.

• DMC doesn't take responsibility for any errors, therefore they constantly repeat. Wage & Hour compliance - doesn't believe in federal or state rules. In the span of three months over $100,000 payroll errors. Accounts Payable errors over $100,000 in a two year period. Accounts Receivable errors, these take a literally village to fix and DMC will repeat the mistakes again.

• Another water cooler favorite, DMC is adamant on her organizational skills. Every single employee knows she does not. Reprints the same invoices multiple times. Some are paid four times and other collection notices. When the business has a reputation for payment problems, that's a reflection on the entire company.

The examples could go on for days. It's mind-blowing to everyone how brain dead the owner is to allow it to continued. DMC plays him and his partner with all the stories. They eat it up - hook, line, and sinker. DMC didn't agree with a state law for nursing mothers, to the point go the owner on board to change the safe place. The owner told HR that he didn't agree to the full three years or having to pay for the breaks (want to guess who planted that seed?).

DMC always gets the good information from eavesdropping, because the context isn't important. Causing drama is the goal. Those played, then get angry. they are under the impression that confused individual is hiding something or not being truthful. It's a cycle, once they figure it out, DMC will create a sob story.

The sadness part of Victims of Their Own Stories and Completely Incompetent Genius is the negative and toxic environment they create. Not a blip of thought to take an initiative to learn their roles and be authentic. Extremes like DMC, don't fool many. In this case, in the workplace it literally impacted 4 - 7 other employees on a daily basis to keep the operation going.

The sequel: Coming to a workplace near you - nah. DMC will be staying until the money is gone and the business closes. That sigh of relief - heard!