I asked my friend if he worked with a good team of people and he said, "No, there is lots of back stabbing."  I knew exactly what he meant.  Is it in every work place?  The place I work with now doesn't stab with knives but there is lots of poking with forks. 

  I had a new job about eight years ago and I was so happy to work with a team of people who had been there a long time.  "How bad could it be if these people have hung in there for so many years?" I thought.  I mentioned this to my new boss.  

 "There is lots of back stabbing around here." he said.  Those words were so true and after the two years I worked for that place I knew exactly what he meant.  Back scratching and stabbing were rampant.  The ones who survived knew how to scratch each other's back and if you weren't a back scratcher you got stabbed.  I got stabbed.

 It is very subtle the way people jockey for position in a job situation.  I did not like the controling nature of the big boss and she did not appreciate the work I did for her.  So she proceeded to weed me out.  I saw that the back scratchers looked the other way while she and a few others waited for any opportunity to stab me.  They got me good at  the end but I quit before they could fire me.  I think that is what the back stabbers ultimately want.  

  Brutal.  It is a shark infested world out there and I pity people who have to go swim amongst them every day.  I think most people find a quiet little pool where they can float out of sight from the back stabbers.  But everyone at a job knows they are there and they know their power.  If you don't watch out you can become one of them before you know it.