important your deadline or how critical your work trajectory
at the moment, crazymakers will violate your needs. They
may act as though they hear your boundaries and will
respect them, but in practice act is the operative word.
Crazymakers are the people who call you at midnight or
6:00 A.M. saying, “I know you asked me not to call you at
this time, but ...” Crazymakers are the people who drop by
unexpectedly to borrow something you can’t find or don’t
want to lend them. Even better, they call and ask you to
locate something they need, then fail to pick it up. “I know
you’re on a deadline,” they say, “but this will only take a
minute.” Your minute.
Crazymakers spend your time and money. If they borrow
your car, they return it late, with an empty tank. Their travel
arrangements always cost you time or money. They demand
to be met in the middle of your workday at an airport miles
from town. “I didn’t bring taxi money,” they say when
confronted with, “But I’m working.”
Crazymakers triangulate those they deal with. Because
crazymakers thrive on energy (your energy), they set people
against one another in order to maintain their own power
position dead center. (That’s where they can feed most
directly on the negative energies they stir up.) “So-and-so
was telling me you didn’t get to work on time today,” a
crazymaker may relay. You obligingly get mad at so-and-so