The article about two very convenient 'accidents' describes how a work colleague escaped from some difficult situations at someone else's expense.
I have remembered another example of someone I worked with causing suffering to others by using illegitimate methods to deal with a work-related problem.
The victim of the first colleague was a little girl; on the second occasion two young men were involved. These men became ill rather than having accidents and they were deliberately targetted rather than indirectly affected, but once again the case involved a perpetrator who failed to negotiate with people in the normal manner and the phenomenon that I think of as psychological black magic.
The events described here happened some years after the first case, and they took place in a different company.
They involved a colleague I shall call Ms X. I was very wary of her right from the start, and the trouble that she subsequently caused, of which this story is just a small example, showed that my instincts were correct.
Ms X was a senior accountant. In addition to her main job, she did the accounts for another organisation or two on a voluntary basis in her spare time – I think it was for the Brownies and/or her local church.
The voluntary work started to feel like an imposition. Rather than just tell the people concerned that it was getting too much for her, Ms X very typically tried to manipulate some fellow employees into taking her place.
Ms X got one of the more junior accountants to take on some of her voluntary work; he then became very ill and took extended medical leave. By the time he returned, she had left the company.
The second man was a colleague of the first. He resisted the pressure to take over some of the voluntary accounts work; he then became very depressed. He left the company. His new job didn't work out, and he eventually returned to his old position. By this time, Ms X had left the company.
Once again there was a failure to behave in the normal adult way.
Ms X should have just told the organisation(s) in question that she could no longer find the time to work on their accounts. She could have said that she had paid her dues and done her bit and it was time to call it a day.
Finding a replacement was their problem, not hers.
It was not reasonable to try to offload some of this work onto two of her colleagues in turn: they lived a long way from where she did so there was no reason for them to be interested in her local organisations, and if they had wanted to do voluntary work, they would have been doing it for their own chosen causes.
She could certainly have just mentioned her predicament to the two men in the normal manner on the off-chance that one of them would offer to help, but instead she used mind power to try to compel them do what she wanted.
As can be seen from material in other articles on here, there is nothing original about this story. It provides yet another example of psychological, or unconscious, black magic and its detrimental effect on the victims.
Using illegitimate methods to try to obtain something can be counter-productive.
In my experience, when people make such inordinate and/or inappropriate and/or unrealistic demands on others it often backfires: the people with the least resistance to the demands are often the people with the least ability to carry out the orders, and the pressure to obey often has a very detrimental effect that reduces their capacity even further.
Targetted people may feel a strong inclination to avoid their victimiser, or they may even escape from the scene altogether.
Manipulators and exploiters typically home in on easy marks, low-hanging fruit and ready-made victims.
Ms X targetted weak people.
The first man would surely not have agreed to do the accounts work if he had been in his right mind and a healthy state, but impending severe illness lowered his resistance to the mental pressure. The second man was weak in that he was rather a sensitive type. A tendency to depression probably made him vulnerable too.
Ms X did a lot of damage to both fellow employees and the organisation in the two years or so that she worked there.
I have remembered some more examples of the trouble she caused and will produce another article or two some time.
I remember very clearly how I recoiled in horror deep down inside when I first met Ms X. This was because of what I sensed about her.
It is important to be in touch with such instincts and to listen to their messages:
