The double whammy of getting 2 younger fellow directors 26 2 11
Aged early 30's, me in my early 50's. Me, 2 years into my 4 year contract, they replacements for 2 guys I had eating out of my hand, based in the fact I had been visiting this company for 10 years before I arrived, and in a sense had been head-hunted to join them owing to a superior knowledge of the Industry, garnered as it was by visiting all their competitors in a development-coordinating role for some years past...
The one a "Tavallinen Insinööri" as a opposed to a full Diploma Engineer, tavallinen meaning "Ordinary" as opposed to top notch: the other a bean counter, according to his own addmission, an Ekonomi or Economist on the top grade.
The former a Trumplike figure, a narcissist with a personality disorder which had it that everything he did was okay, whilst everyone else wasn't. Whilst the other guy would run a mile rather than enjoin battle in an argument. I don't know which of the two was worst, but probably the latter who was noted as time wore on, for in the main only hiring women...
By the time my contract was coming to an end the former had my directorship and the MD and CEO's Marketing directorship on the his business card, which meant 3 in total, the latter, Production, his original, and my R and D.
But whilst the former was content to cherry-pick the tasks I had demonstrated a knowledge and accomplishment for, his tactic was to errode my basis with lies about me to the MD and CEO who like many others was taken in by him, but then with a new job title of simply "Tenchnical Specifications" he continued to off-load the bits of my former job as a Director he didn't seek to do.
Whilst the other guy would later take some of these away, nevermind how successfully I was to perform them but in a mannor of speaking to avoid confrontations. The best example was after 10 years from 1990 to 1999 of handling the USA monthly claims, he supported his new lady Marketing Director in relieving me of the task in order to placate her, despite my overseeing these reduced from US $200 000 pa down to $5 000, when they were seen to start rising again, as non-technical personnel got involved, including me as a minor player.
That, after retiring in 2008, I am still coming to terms with these events says something about my misfortune. But like my mother used to like to say : it's all water under the bridge now!
Have a good day everyone as I hope you too, have much water to have passed under your bridges, that it is still exercising your thoughts 18 years on..?
The one a "Tavallinen Insinööri" as a opposed to a full Diploma Engineer, tavallinen meaning "Ordinary" as opposed to top notch: the other a bean counter, according to his own addmission, an Ekonomi or Economist on the top grade.
The former a Trumplike figure, a narcissist with a personality disorder which had it that everything he did was okay, whilst everyone else wasn't. Whilst the other guy would run a mile rather than enjoin battle in an argument. I don't know which of the two was worst, but probably the latter who was noted as time wore on, for in the main only hiring women...
By the time my contract was coming to an end the former had my directorship and the MD and CEO's Marketing directorship on the his business card, which meant 3 in total, the latter, Production, his original, and my R and D.
But whilst the former was content to cherry-pick the tasks I had demonstrated a knowledge and accomplishment for, his tactic was to errode my basis with lies about me to the MD and CEO who like many others was taken in by him, but then with a new job title of simply "Tenchnical Specifications" he continued to off-load the bits of my former job as a Director he didn't seek to do.
Whilst the other guy would later take some of these away, nevermind how successfully I was to perform them but in a mannor of speaking to avoid confrontations. The best example was after 10 years from 1990 to 1999 of handling the USA monthly claims, he supported his new lady Marketing Director in relieving me of the task in order to placate her, despite my overseeing these reduced from US $200 000 pa down to $5 000, when they were seen to start rising again, as non-technical personnel got involved, including me as a minor player.
That, after retiring in 2008, I am still coming to terms with these events says something about my misfortune. But like my mother used to like to say : it's all water under the bridge now!
Have a good day everyone as I hope you too, have much water to have passed under your bridges, that it is still exercising your thoughts 18 years on..?
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