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Negotiations which end up being one-sided, and you’re the one
who doesn’t usually benefit from it.

Attempts to intimidate you verbally.
Team projects where you find yourself taking on more
responsibility than others who are just as capable of sharing the
workload but somehow don’t.
Exposure to passive-aggressive behavior.

Feeling wrong-footed or being left in the dark about what’s
going on until the very last minute.
Feeling out of the loop on the important decisions that get made,

realizing too late that you weren’t privy to certain information.
Rumors or gossip being circulated around the office, trying to
put one colleague against another.
There always seems to be more confusion than solutions after
you’ve had a talk with them.

Colleagues who refuse to admit their mistakes and attempt to
cover it up by shifting the blame to someone else, even though
they were clearly in the wrong.

What makes these manipulators so dangerous is that these tactics
sometimes don’t stop at the office alone. You may even be surrounded by

such individuals in within your immediate circle of friends or family, except

that it's much harder to see them for who they are and what they’re doing

because, on some level, you don’t want to believe that these people whom

you care about could resort to such behavior. Sadly, these people exist all
around us, and it is only when we wake up and pay attention to the

following evidence that we start to realize our lives may be surrounded by

more manipulators than we would like to admit, and the 13 laws of

manipulation could be happening to you right this minute:

They Build Your Confidence - Only to tear you down when it
works in their favor. When you’re meeting someone for the first