Learn to Get Along Boys…or I’m Telling…
I’m in the midst of the power struggle at work and I’m not even an active participant. Although I’m in the Legal Department, I sit in the area of the Finance Department. The Chief Financial Officer likes to believe that he will be the next in line to become President, so he has this God complex about him. I stress the word “believe” because I would bet my salary on that not happening. He’s just not smart enough or enough of a people person for that to happen – he’s not liked at all. He’s arrogant and self-absorbed. Need I say how I really feel? I don't think he likes me either, so we're even. The in-house lawyer, who I work for doesn’t want to become the next President, but technically he is viewed as being in “second in command” by the current President of the company. This in itself pisses the Chief Financial Officer off to no end. The lawyer is wound pretty tightly, but other than hi...