We've added some new blood to the talent pool. Most of the time additions are welcome, but sometimes you just have a feeling from the start its not going to be good! Enter the Lollipop King! Who began as a consultant, then lightning struck, thunder roared across the plains and whoosh...he's a new senior executive! Really something to behold!
All smiles and sunshine as a consultant, now dismissive and actually looks and talks down to people, which is amazing at only only 4'9". This is really the first time I have seen a Napoleon complex in its full blown glory and good lord does that baby has some fire behind it!
As with anything, we don't have to like the people we work with, but we do need to get along, work together to achieve set objectives and common goals!
So if I need to imagine him driving to work in his clown car, I do it because it makes me smile and laugh, while reinventing the wheel.
If I think of him attending power lunches with his feet swinging underneath the table while someone cuts his meat, that's just how I have to do it!
If I chuckle because I think underneath his power suit is a Spiderman undershirt and briefs, well its just what helps me keep a smile on my face while being simultaneously ignored and talked down to!
One of the most important things I have learned in life is to let people determine their relationship with me. If your cool, I'm cool, even if everyone else hates your guts, I can hang until you make it personal. Your basically given all the rope you need to either make a great big bow or hang yourself several times over.
We all have our coping mechanisms, not all of them are nice, but when it works it works!
And we're off...
