Friday, September 10, 2004

One of the ways to make career

I have another colleague and she made her way in the company by sleeping with upper management. She was the mistress of some VPs and she made part of enough of orgies to know the intimate details of the biggest part of our upper management in the headquarters. She even could travel a lot; often these people felt that they need her “very professional assistance” abroad. Thus she could make acquaintance with some of our high shots on post abroad.
When she just joined a company she was a receptionist and she said to people around "One day I will have my BMW and I will be a manager, you will see". This sounds like a B movie quote, but actually a position was created specially for her. You know she has to do things that nobody cares about and she even has an assistant to help her out. Her assistant has CFS(Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) since more then a year. It is to tell you if her work is hard.
Once a year she does a presentation in the big staff meeting. I always have to correct, polish and actually do a big part of her presentations beforehand. My boss asks me gently "I know Eva, it is not your job, but you do it so well, I am sure you would not mind to give a hand". Of course I do mind spending 2 days on making a complete absurd presentation about something that nobody cares, I have to make it attractive and insert as many impressive graphs as possible, with lots of colours and curbs showing positive things. Thus she can once a year show to us all how indispensable she is and how she helps this company. Anyhow, there is no way to prove it. You know what I mean, some things are just abstract. So combine abstract with unnecessary and you get nonsense. But as long as she’s needed in some manager’s bed, she’ll get well around here.