This bit from the post above
Which is why I think Eyan is going to slowly try and destroy Jo Summerbell's confidence, I can see the early warning signs, because Eyan knows she will be a successful presenter.
I don’t listen (cos he’s a creep) but understand this is the newsreader that he refers to as the ‘ new’s girl’ and enquired after her ‘melons’. FFS, not doubt followed by a sorry…
Wonder how that sits with Katherine’s feminist view point? (answer: she will ignore that bit , as per de rigueur).
Hope Jo is rolling her eyes, hope she get’s it’s him .. not her, when she doesn’t play along.
She has a great solo show that blows Iain’s out of the water.
Maybe that’s the problem .
She’s too good.
He can’t cope, he doesn’t like it, so this dismantling of someone’s confidence begins… again.
Standard behaviour for him.
He does it EVERY time.
You've summed it up perfectly, "dismantling of confidence". That's precisely what Eyan was setting out to achieve when he publicly humiliated Jo Summerbell over being late for the news. But, he tried to make it look "humorous", to cover his tracks, when it simply wasn't funny. It was nasty.
I can see through Eyan like an open window. I've seen identical in the workplace. Does Eyan think he's that clever he can disguise his motives?
Dismantling someone's confidence by ridicule and public humiliation is the oldest trick in the narcissist's "How to Bully Handbook".
What does Kaffbo think about what Eyan is doing? She fully understands exactly what Eyan is doing so can't claim ignorance, especially with all her feminism thought and Maya Knews.
I'd suggest she's rather happy with watching Jo being treated like this and fully supports Eyan in making Jo feel uncomfortable and causing her anxiety.
It's another classic behaviour: Kaffbo is the victim and takes great pleasure in watching Eyan doing it others, in this case Jo, as that's what people with Kaffbo's personality are like.
She would be lovin' it like a McDonalds. ba da ba ba ba Kaffbo's lovin' it!
Kaffbo is not a happy person. She's a massive downer. A good mood blackhole. Good mood energy vampire. She's always been like that.
Kaffbo and Eyan remind me of a film called "The Cooler". Summary from Wiki: "unlucky Bernie Lootz works at the Shangri-La casino as a "cooler" - a man with near professionally bad luck, his presence at a casino designed to stop people from winning".
When someone was winning too much at the gambling tables, the casino management would send Bernie to sit next to the player who was winning and he would act as a bad luck charm and turn a winning streak in to a total losing streak.
This is what Grumpbo Kaffbo is doing vicariously through Eyan. Kaffbo is letting things play out through Eyan to pull down Jo Summerbell. IMHO.
Kaffbo call Eyan out? Not a chance, she will encourage Eyan by letting him get on with it.
Jo Summerbell is happy, talented, independent, rather attractive and a successful lady. Everything Grumpbo Kaffbo isn't.
So of course Grumpbo Kaffbo is going to hate Jo and not stop Eyan from making Jo's life difficult.
Kaffbo's morals are not particularly nice, despite all her Maya Knews, Kaffboisms and high feminism.
There's nothing innocent or humorous about what Eyan does. He always has an agenda. I can see Eyan's agenda heading towards punishing Jo Summerbell because he fancies her and she has no interest in him. Plus Jo reminds Eyan that she's everything that Kaffbo is not.
This reminds Eyan that all he's got is a Grumpbo Kaffbo and that's the best he can do, when he would really like to be rumpy pumping the lovely Jo Summerbell.
I've seen all this before in the workplace and that's why it's all so predictable. I've dealt with identical before in the workplace and with total success. Eyan's nothing new to me.
Question is, "
Would Eyan dump the Grumpbo Kaffbo in a heartbeat if he could convince Jo Summerbell to dump her boyfriend and be his girlfriend/subordinate/victim?"
I'll leave that for others to answer...
This is happening at work, in plain sight of colleagues and within earshot of hundreds.
