Posted by
PolitaChick on Friday, January 26, 2007 9:46:01 AM
But this isn't the type of leak that gets the floors wet, but it is the type of leak that could sink ships! What am I talking about? Well, what's going on here is more along the lines of Deep Throat than the Titanic. Has this ever happened to you?
Surely, at some point in time we all have had to deal with someone working against us. Whether it's a jealous ex, family member or coworker, it is these intense rivalries that build between people can make our lives unjustifiably--or completely justifiably--miserable!
Believe it or not, it's worse than any thing you can image here in this compound! A coworker of mine has brilliantly turned my work against me. I work with the press. I am not a reporter or member of the press but I am a communications strategist and part of my job is to try to coherse the press to tell my story for the angle most beneficial to my client. It's PR stuff!
In a manor that would make Machiavelli giddy with mischievous delight, a coworker of mine is actively work to seek and destroy me for reasons that just don't add up! This gentleman--if you can call him that--has divulged false information about me to a number of different yet, semi-prominent bloggers. And all of y'all reading this know just how powerful the blogosphere can be.
With a blatant disregard for the truth, he maliciously is working to destroy my creditability and my relationship with the media. Mind you--I just got here! These are very young relationships that I am diligently working to build and this man is manipulating things so that I am doomed to fail!
He is working to take me down--fine. But in his efforts to tear me down he is shooting himself in the foot. He is dismantling all my efforts to do my job. Why? Am I doing to too well and so he is resentful? Doubtful. Did I do anything to him or to embarrass him? Not a chance! I would never work against myself that way.
I am a team player through and through. I was hired to do a job, which apparently I've done too well for this man. But his devious actions are bringing down the ship--not just on crewmen (me). He is biting the hand that feeds. He's not just defaming my professionalism and ruining my ability to form working and respectful relationships with the press but he is hurting the image of the Captain of the ship; the man whose image I am striving to reshape!
It's crazy! It just doesn't make since! Plus, the Captain knows what's going on! Is it ego? Probably. Why? Not because someone more than half is age is calling all the PR shots! Well maybe that is it. The Captain no longer seeks his advice on everything, just his specialty. Of course, he doesn't ask my advice on matters that are this other guy’s specialty. But I would expect him to--absolutely not!
So what am I to do in this situation? The damage he has caused might have pasted the point of no return. It might be irreversible. He could have destroyed my ability to effectively work in this state. Right now the Captain is working to plug this leak before the ship sinks! Stay tuned! I will let you whether this crewman is thrown overboard, whether this leak sinks the ship and if the Captain goes down with the ship.
Let's hope the leak is plugged and this ship continues its voyage.