The Asphol Taxonomy of Personality Types in Work Places

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i feel like every work place is the stamford prison experiment in some way. The context of different work places will cause these personality types to emerge because you've crited a taxonomy of these asphols. So i'm goingto ask you for for each of these, a definition and a description, and then we're going to talk about what to do about them. A gaslighteris a person who lies. They lie on grand scale, with the intent to createa false reality for the person that they're lying to. It's actually creating an entire workplace world that's not founded in reality. Often the reason why they do this is because they're trying to get

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