Characters Involved:
CO: The Company
I / Me: A newbie in the complicated area of office politics. Currently doing admin and listing related work. Tries to maintain a pleasant relationship with everyone in the office but still forced to take sides for self-protection.
G: The Boss of CO. The businessman who has many businesses, travelling all the time, always not in office.
Y: An employee of G's friend's company, is "borrowed" to help take care of CO while G is away. Someone who think that he can have a share of the business or hold a senior management post after the company goes public. But G decides to slowly "return" him to his friend.
S: The victim of the conspiracy. An incompetent assistant accountant in contract but name herself the Accounting Manager, who also foresees herself as the Financial Controller of CO.
R: The senior consultant hired from a consultanting company and now also act as the FC of CO. Someone who find life as consultant too stressful, want to quite his job and be the REAL FC or Finance Director of CO.
J: The junior consultant hired from a consultanting company and now also act as the Account Manager of CO. Someone who R wants to pull him to work in CO as well. Usually stations in CO's China factory.
E: The account assistant, who is in-charge of the full set of account. She was hired directly by G.
Alliance: the alliance formed by R, E and Me
THE STORY: (The events occured in timely order)
S applied job in Y's company but instead she was offered a post in CO. At that time, Y was in total control of CO as G is always not around. Y had promised the position of FC to S after the company goes public.
S started to take charge of CO and was offered above-market salary and other fridge benefits. S was also promised a Extra bonus for her service after the company goes public.
S and E was in bad terms. Y & S wanted to fire E but was stopped by G.
R and J was hired as consultant, but in the beginning, they were not stationed in the office. J takes care of all accounting related issues, oversees all work done by E, while R is in-charge of all listing related documentation, restructuring, strategic planning, negotiations etc.
G has reviewed to the staff that Y will leave the company soon, possibly after CO goes public.
R gained control of the company when he was asked to station in the office (also with a secret offer) and take charge of the office. Y begins to lose power...
Y does not know R & G's plan and think that R and J will leave the company after it goes public.
Conflict started between R and S. R sees S as an incompetent employee while S sees R as a threat to her career advancement. Me, E and R formed alliance. I see threat from Y (my own career advancement and I am pissed with Y's attitude.
R refuse to let S handle any new project. Most of S's work is now handled by J and so S slowly lose influence in the office.
R proposed to fire S but G wants to leave some "face" for Y, and suggested to deal with her only after listed.
S turned to Y for help. Y wanted to maintain his influence/power in CO, so Y in turn pressured R to let S to take charge of more important work.
Meawhile Y also advised S to switch to admin position, but she showed no interest in that area.
We starts to tackle.
Firstly, it was S's language class, that was 30 times more expensive than normal course, and was paid by CO. G was misled and thought that the first month's payment is one time payment for the whole course and unawared that the company is paying for it monthly. I informed G and he immediately stopped the payment / class. However, S suppected that it was R behind this.
Secondly, exclude her from mailing list and stop information flow to her.
G started to exclude her from meetings as well.
Conflicts occur everyday between S, E & R, until early this week, there was a major arguement broke off while I was out for meeting. R could no longer tolerate the present of S in the office and went to speak to Y. R managed to convince Y to ask S to leave and to offer an attractive package. Y promised to deal with her himself.... (still waiting for news)
There is rumours saying Y wants to shift his secretary from his working company to work in CO to replace the loss of S.
On the other hand, R now wants J and replace S with him. (pleaes note that the office has limited working space / seats and cannot have new staff within sacking an old one)
S starts to sense something going on, while the Alliance get ready for S's departure. Steps are taken to prevent her from stealing confidential documents and take any action which may jeopardize the progress of listing.
S has tendency to stay back after work to do her own/personal work, so Me and R takes turns to stay back as well to make sure that she's not in the office alone.
That's all for what is happening...
Conspiracy continues, power struggle continue, political battle continues....
posted by YY at
9:32:00 AM
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