The One Percenters..

My relationships with the Decent People in the office continue to flourish and thrive, conducted in conditions of relentless secrecy.

Three of these co-workers are managed by Spiteful Manager - someone who elected to deliberately humiliate me in front of my own assistant in order to try and turn him against me.

(Fortunately, because my assistant was a person of stunning personal integrity, he told Spiteful Manager that he did not want to be tainted with petty office unpleasantness. Assistant was a well brought up young Frenchman. Case rests..)

Spiteful Manager's role in the lives of these three confidantes means that they prefer to communicate via our personal email addresses and mobile phones, avoiding any chance that our friendship might be "discovered" by Spiteful Manager who will inevitably instantly embark upon one of his usual discrediting campaigns.

The Decent People and I have recently been discussing the fact that our organisation is one which simply does not "get" us. We are people who feel hurt when we are undermined! We feel upset when we are mistreated! We get resentful when we see no effort to address the bullying and mis-management which is rife throughout our Dear Little Department! None of these responses are welcomed by the organisation which prefers its staff to put up and shut up. After all, the unofficial organisational motto is "Just get on with it and don't complain".

We agree that it is a complete waste of time to reveal our innermost thoughts to The Hierarchy. And it is positively dangerous to expose any weakness or vulnerability to the Jackals. But going further than this, why should we bother to waste an iota of humour, personality or warmth on people who treat us with ill-concealed contempt?? As Continental Colleague puts it: "these people do not deserve to be acquainted with my full self".

So we have decided to become the One Percenters!

- People who walk into the office and say "morning everyone!" in a cheery tone.
- And who say "night all!" when they leave.
- Who in the interim, confine themselves only to necessary interchanges about work matters.
- Who only place 1% of themselves on the front line
- And who reserve the other precious 99% for their family and friends.

Having spent so long feeling alone, I am now so happy to be part of a gang ! (Albeit a very very secret one...)

The One Percenters are planning to all go for lunch soon.
Hopefully there will be jam sandwiches and LASHINGS of ginger beer.
Yay  !!!

All that's missing now is Timmy the Dog.
I'm keeping my eyes open.