One more letter about psychopathic executives. Dear Bob ... Your current article in Keep the Joint Running really hit a note with me. Quite a few of my coworkers in the office I work in fit the psychopath profile exactly. I occasionally feel like I'm the only sane person in the sanitorium, screaming my defense as they lock me in the padded cell. There is an answer to your (presumed) hypothetical question of "wha One more letter about psychopathic executives.Dear Bob …Your current article in Keep the Joint Running really hit a note with me. Quite a few of my coworkers in the office I work in fit the psychopath profile exactly. I occasionally feel like I’m the only sane person in the sanitorium, screaming my defense as they lock me in the padded cell.There is an answer to your (presumed) hypothetical question of “what should you do if you find yourself working for a bad boss?”, however.It’s probably different for everyone, but here’s the one I employ to the best of my ability. I’ve tried to leave, made it to the “final two candidates” round for three different jobs, but no dice. I’m stuck here for the time being while my husband finishes school. But in the meantime, I take measures to preserve my precious sanity against the constant attacks by my coworkers. 1. Remember it’s all a game, as you so often remind us. It’s what I do for 40 hours a week for a paycheck so I can live, it’s not who I am as a person.2. Work is work. Private is private. As you’ve said before, become the model employee – “I have no problems, I create no problems, I solve your problems” as much as you can.3. Treat them as though they can’t behave any better, because they can’t. The one time my boss got me to break – I’ve never cried at work, but I had to leave the office for “lunch” after a particularly awful incident, just so I could get my emotions under control – I tried to come up with a way to deal with the environment until I could leave. My mother works with emotionally/behaviorally disturbed students. My husband finally said, “You have to work with them like your mom works with her students.Be polite. Give them an example of how normal people behave and are civil to one another. Forgive them for not knowing any better, forgive them because they can’t help it, they can’t change the way they are. But always be aware of your environment. Always take measures to keep yourself safe, and to not put yourself in harm’s way, whether it’s physical or mental.” So now I do that. How sad to have to treat most of my co-workers as emotionally or behaviorally challenged adults, but in reality, that is what they are.– Dealing with it daily Dear Dealing …Thanks for the great advice. You’ve helped a lot of people today.– Bob Technology Industry