Our resident corporate Agony Uncle, CEO Ken Cheng, tackles business challenges – so you don’t have to.
Dear Ken Cheng,
We suspect that someone on our team at work has started sleeping with our boss. This wouldn’t be a problem but he is now giving her all the important cases and a lot of useful resources and contacts. How do I call him out for giving special treatment?
– Thomas, Redditch
Ken Cheng: I’m sorry, Thomas. I’ve reread this question several times carefully, and I still fail to find anything your boss has done wrong.
Unfortunately, this is a skill issue.
Every single employee has the ability to start sleeping with their boss, and working towards that goal should be something they are willing to do for career advancement.
There is very much no law against this (as far as I know), nor for having favourites in the office as a boss. If those favourites just so happen to be chosen due to availability for intercourse, who am I to judge? What happens between two consenting adults in the workplace is nobody else’s business.
Fair play to your colleague for recognising an opportunity to improve her own standing. That is someone who will do what it takes to get a promotion.
It sounds like you are not annoyed at your coworker for getting special treatment, but for getting there first. Envy is only a useful trait if it is going to drive you to achieve your new objective: start sleeping with your boss too.
If you think you can’t achieve this, then you truly don’t deserve the important cases and useful contacts. If you are not willing to throw down and seduce your boss, then look forward to years of being passed up on promotions and raises while your more promiscuous and sexier colleagues climb the ladder above you.
You can do this, Thomas. We all have the same 24 hours in the day.
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