This book has finally come back from the Editor, so this month it is going to get a second revision, a second draft for the editor, and beta readers.
And so it begins...
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How do we tell who's good and who's bad?
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Everybody has an agenda; it's just we don't necessarily know what it is. It's where this story is headed, and I'm just spitballing at the moment…
Perhaps having worked in an office where there is a hierarchy of bosses, each actively working on getting up that next rung on the ladder, using whatever and whomever at their disposal to achieve such a result, it is sometimes not so easy to see whether we are being used as pawns in their insidious games. They know you are malleable because you're the new kid on the block, and you want to make your mark.
I've certainly worked in offices where my work had been used and passed off by them as their own and basically promised if I did well (and supported them) I would also succeed, only to find once they move on you've been dumped. Or you've been asked to do a job that you know is going to have an adverse effect on someone else.
You only find out what's really going on when you jump the chain of command, or you use initiative.
While offices are not usually hotbeds of insidious activity, another name for office politics, the premise is basically the same. People are being used by other people to further their own agenda, whether to curry favour with people of influence or get a promotion. Or they just want to get rid of someone that's in the way.
And if you are the new kid on the block, would you really know what was going on, until it all explodes in your face.
This story, at long last, is getting more interesting by the minute.
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