Rotten places to work must cease to exist, become cadáveres (corpses)

 

A man who suffered a very bad mental pathology (and because of that had not been able to work, being over 30 years old), was hired by a “friend” in an electronics maquiladora, which had arrived a few months before to the so called Silicon Valley of M. He was hired by that “friend”, who had been his classmate years before at college. They had studied a major on electronics engineering.

David, the friend was always a good student, one of the best in his class. The troubled character, a year David’s senior, was 33.5 years old. He had not worked a single day in his life. Ha had failed twice at college, when he tried to finish his electronics engineering major. But in spite of that, he had a very solid academic training. He had refused to give up and in his early twenties he taught himself mathematics and physics and other subjects, for his academic deficiencies were really bad. Misfit was born neuro-divergent, couldn’t see with his left eye (35 percent peripheral vision, unable to focus), suffered from ADHD never diagnosed. His mother did not take care of him, his father blamed him for everything that was bad in his life since he was a toddler; being still a child, his malignant narcissist father (a psychopath) blamed Misfit for everything which was wrong in the world, for the entire history of humanity.

Misfit was good reading and writing. He reckoned that if he had a good command of his mother tongue (Spanish), because he had been reading since he began his basic (primary) education, he could teach himself reading books and all kind of written material in English. He did that.

He arrived to that maquiladora on 17 November 1997, a Monday.  Megalomaniac David’s only motivation to hire his very (inferior) friend was to prove himself, Misfit and anyone around, that intellectually, David was the size of Mount Everest, while Misfit was the size of a subatomic particle.

Misfit couldn’t even use a Personal Computer, but he could write very well, both in his mother tongue (Spanish) as in a foreign tongue, English. David had lived abroad for a year, in London. But he had not considered that learning a (considered easy) foreign language would require much effort; this idea had its origin in his very bad narcissistic pathology. He suffered from delusions of grandeur.

David was not Misfit’s friend; he never was such. In fact, he hated him.

Why?

Because David inherited some kind of mutation. He was about about 6 feet tall (a couple of inches taller than Misfit), but in spite of being very slim, David lacked muscle mass and the adipose tissue proportion was very high. He was extremely weak, physically. Mentally, he was at least as weak as he was physically; maybe even more.

Because Misfit was neuro-divergent, being a child he tripped with his own feet. Being about 10 years old, he began jumping rope and that helped to overcome his clumsiness of movement. Being 16 years old, he watched Olympic Games on TV and decided that in four or eight years he would be an Olympic Champion. He wanted to be a middle distance runner, like Steve Ovett or Sebastian Coe, Olympic Champions in Moscow, 1980, when Misfit was 16 years old.

Misfit began to run five miles every day, from Monday to Sunday, in about 40 minutes. A few years later Misfit realized that he wouldn’t ever be a champion because his physical abilities were very modest. But he did not care much about that. After 10 years he had to quit running due to injuries in his Achilles tendons and began to bicycle. He was about 26. He did not do well in competition, but had the looks of a high performance sportsman.

In contrast, David’s extreme physical weakness gave him the looks of some kind of mutant, which he was. Because of the difference between he and Misfit, he hated him. David forced his friend to engage in a fight, against his will, being Misfit unaware of that.

When Mr. Megalomaniac realized that his friend, Misfit, intellectually was not the size of a subatomic particle, therefore, David was not the size of Mount Everest, he assaulted his subordinate with extreme verbal violence.

Misfit asked, “why do you treat me like that?”

“I am not mistreating you”, answered Megalomaniac.

“Then?”, asked Misfit.

“It’s your inferiority complex”, said Megalomaniac David. Gaslight, adding insult to injury.

A few days after that, on 2 February 1998, a Monday, Misfit resigned his job and left. His life fell into an abyss.

That was AVEX Electronics of M. Misfit arrived on 17 November 1998, he left on 2 February 1998, badly injured. That could have killed him, but he wouldn’t ever be willing to permit anyone to subdue him.

Misfit’s life became a living hell. Megalomaniac David kept going, he had hurt badly a man he hated. Jealousy is highly irrational and potentially lethal.

Misfit’s life became a living hell. Having been born to a malignant narcissistic father (a psychopath) and a woman who did not take care of him, as a consequence, he suffered a very bad mental pathology. After he left AVEX Electronics at the beginning of 1998, his life became a living hell, different to the one he had lived before.

Seventeen years after that, Misfit was able to get another job. English – Spanish translator in a pharmaceutical company. Seemed to be something very good, his salvation, but it was not such.

After two years, Misfit broke his left collarbone, riding his bicycle. It wasn’t bad, in six weeks he would be ok. This happened at the beginning of May 2017, Misfit had turned 53 nine days before (on 27 April 2017), and two years working in that pharmaceutical company.

After six weeks, Misfit returned to his job. A coworker who had a very bad reputation began harassing him. That second half of the year 2017 (from June to December) became a nightmare. In August 2018, a woman was hired for a new position, she would be Omar’s boss. This bully told his boss, Blanca, that Misfit, the Chemist Translator, was a very bad man (he had attacked someone, a very vulnerable employee who had been forced to resign and leave, something that didn’t ever happened); Blanca behaved like a brainless puppet. She began assaulting Misfit every time she met him. She wouldn’t say anything, but looked at him as if he were a child rapist or something of the kind.

The first week of October 2018, Misfit told the head of the department to which him, the bully and his boss (Blanca) belonged that he was being harassed, that Blanca looked at him as if he were the most despicable man in the world. The head of the department was a woman who hold the greatest power in the company. He ordered the Human Resources head to handle the subject as if Misfit were a very big trouble, in spite that he had been three and a half years in there, and was considered a very good employee.

From then on, Misfit was forced to live defenseless. Omar, the bully, kept saying to anyone willing to listen that Misfit was a very rotten scoundrel. People who listened to him behaved aggressively towards Misfit and nothing could be done about that.

Misfit was fired on 17 August 2021, that is, almost five years ago.

The name of that pharmaceutical company is Maver. The name of the electronics maquiladora was AVEX. Those names have in common three letters, AVE; bird, in Spanish.

AVEX Electronics de M ceased to exist. It was sold and its name changed to Benchmark. Real trash.

Has Productos Maver ceased to exist too? As far as I know, no; this has not happened.

Having suffered so much, Misfit would wish that this pharmaceutical company ceased to exist. Become a cadáver (corpse).

Misfit cannot see the future, of course. He is not a prophet, nor an oracle.