Behind the scenes? June 5, 2013

 

 

 

The owner came into our office on an off day saying he needed to rent a tux for a local affair.

Combined with all the other odd behavior he’s displayed over the last year; I have to wonder if this has anything to do with our poet.

Is she still pumping him up, and if so, for what purpose?

Since everything has moved back down to Hometown, which will become the center of the storm, it is difficult to know what role our poet will play – though there are suggestions that whomever is behind her is modifying the old plan to control our office, if not as directly as last summer when RR pulled her strings, then by having her pull strings of the puppets inside our office such as D, our owner and possibly our former temporary boss (although I suspect he would not go along with any such plan if he became aware of it.)

This is not to say that she has given up trying to manipulate the writer for her town – a new guy who showed me the email she sent him just after he took up the job, telling him she could be a good resource for him.

“What the hell is this about?” he asked me.

I shrugged. I had no intention of dragging him through all that mud. I had warned D about her when he worked that slot, and he appeared to ignore the warning.

There was no need to drag anyone else into the game.

But Hometown isn’t her turf, even if her boss from her town has taken up R’s campaign, and so it will be curious to see how they use her.

GA – the Hometown blogger – claims our poet has been making moves on Jamie – the chairman of the local Democratic party, a key figure in the upcoming election. GA claims her spies saw them together as some midtown bar.

Her role then maybe to work behind the scenes on people like Jamie as well as the owner at our office, keeping them, both pumped up, maybe even using our owner to tap the vast resources of our former owner – who still is a powerful figure in Hometown – for money, and workers. The former owner has an army of workers he can employ in an election, as he has done in the past.

Although I suspected our poet might come back to our office in some new role, I do not think that is possible anymore, especially after the Small Man exposed her last fall. If anything, her pal A – our former Hometown writer – will likely take the most visible lead, leaving our poet to work behind the scenes.

In all this, I have to be extremely careful they (whomever they are in this case) do not see me as a threat and have her use her influence over our owner to get me fired.

I am, of course, making a lot of assumptions, particularly about her relationship with our boss. But it is difficult for those behind her to give up on a good thing.

GA’s blog keeps revealing things about what goes on in our office, including mentioning our owner by name.

This, I suspect, is our boss, feeding the blogger in order to keep her position as boss secure. Unfortunately, each time our boss feeds the blogger, people look at me as if I am to blame.

I am scared, and far too old to have to keep looking over my shoulder all the time, worrying over where the next threat will come from. The fact that I have power makes me a bigger target, and it also makes me a threat – and if I’m not careful, they might move me out of the way.

Sometimes, it is just not good to be relatively honest in a massively dishonest world, or to have power that I do not use for personal or political gain.

Our poet misread me when she made her move last year, assuming I had influence inside the office, when I did not, and so I was less useful as a rung on her ladder to trickle up than she assumed. Even our former temporary boss proved a dead end for her since he lost his power the moment the boss came back from maternity leave.

The owner, however, may well have been a homerun for her, although it is a risky game for him, if his partner gets wind of any impropriety. Also, our poet learned that the owner can be moved by other forces, as the Small Man’s move to force her out last fall.

Our owner is a poor judge of character, but he knows where the real money is, and he is more addicted to money than anything else.

 

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