sex killed my career
 

I thought about putting this in the living forum by decided that this was the best place.

Its a story thats been brewing in me for ages that I just have to share.

In the mid 90's I was relocated by my company to do a special job... things went well until I was allocated a staff member to work for me who was a real pill.

She was lazy, very opinionated and always seemed to be going to my boss to complain about things.

Anyways I was persuaded to promote her by my boss against my best instincts.

He then got transferred to Europe and all of a sudden she started to get requests to run training sessions in Europe, I thought little of it. (Can you see where this is heading)

Performance rating time came around and I rated her honestly as being competant at her job but no star.

My own promotion turn came around and to my surprise I was passed over.... things went backwards fast for a while and it has only been in the last couple of years that things seem to have recovered, they have both left the organisation.

I felt so stupid when I found out last year that my boss and the girl had been having a long standing affair which eventually led to his marriage breakdown, how could I have missed that? Had I known I would probably have refused to work with her.

Anyway thats my story... has anyone else experienced a similar circumstance, what did you do about it?

wow, I'm sorry, man. I haven't got any experience with it, but I think that given the circumstances you did the right thing. Maybe now you will make the promotion and return to climbing the ladder.

I once worked for a principal who was having an affair with the superintendent. She was a real witch -- full of herself! Boy did the two of them feel stupid when they were caught due to hitting a child who came out from behind a school bus. She was giving him head and they were distracted!

Thankfully I worked for a different district the following year and she was unable to ruin my career -- tho she tried.

My boss has this thing for one of my co-workers. She always fucks with me and she's gone totally psycho on me screaming "You're not a man at all. You've never been abused!!"
and stuff like that. I don't know if they're sleeping together but she's leading him around big time.
It really sucks.