Pissed

I hate office politics, and I hate people who likes to manipulate office politics.

The story was started when I was still in SF. There's one guy who me and my team all hate, trying to get himself out of the back office, and applied for a position in my marketing team. We called him "the smelly" - because he smells, is the king of trash talking, pretends to be smart but actually super dumb, has a sneaky look and always makes pathetic comments. We unanimously rejected him.

Still within the same office, I moved on to do different things. For some reasons, he made friends with the head of research, gone through different doors, and finally landed himself in the tech research team, as the "right hand" of the head of research. At the same time, I have a friend working as an assistant to the research team, basically executing trades and compiling data for the analysts. My friend now needed to work alongside Smelly after he joined the team. My friend was very upset because Smelly stole a lot of works from him but kept messing things up. He witnessed how Smelly brown-nosed the head of research, licking ass all the way, and blamed on other people when he has done sth wrong. He was ANGRY and INFURIATED. He felt disappointed and eventually left the company.

As the "right hand" of the head of research, he calls himself research project manager. If you live in the world of finance, you probably would NOT be familiar with the term. Plain simple, you are either an analyst or not an analyst. The whole office doesn't know what exactly that he does, but he is able to travel everywhere with the head of research. I saw him in Frankfurt last year at my dept's conference. I asked him what was he doing there, he explained because his boss came, he tagged along.

Because of his boss, he got into the "global graduate program". Basically my company invented this program to recruit/train the brightest kids and nurture them to become an investment professional. Mind you all that he is a dumb kid, it get on my nerves that others actually think he is smart.

The trainees would work at different offices around the world for two years. Smelly was on his second year, and he picked HK as the last stop.

The second I knew Smelly was coming to HK, I quickly emailed my source asking WHY WHY WHY??!!! I am not kiding, I got a response saying "Yea.. we are pretty glad that we can finally get rid of him for a period of time.." I asked the key person to place him on a different team because I did't want to work with him nor train him of what I do. I just want to minimize our interaction with him as much as possible. This sound silly..but if you know me, I rarely hate people at work, this one by far exceed my limit.

This apparently came out to be a mistake. Instantly he made friends with HR and PMs, he also expressed his interest in staying in HK. He is going back to SF next week, and I found out this Friday that he was trying to get himself a job at the regional investment team!

I was infuriated and my head was bubbling. I was upset because people actually enjoys working with him because of his smooth-talking and incompetence for doing anything. Can't people understand why he wants to work in HK? He is nobody in the states and he doesn't want to be the DOG forever..he doesn't have a real job or a real title back home..he was trying to get himself out of the trap!

I was told that I have the responsibilities to tell people how I feel and what I know about him. I am still debating..I am not the gossipy type of person and I don't want to influence others with my biased judgment. Especially if he has the support of his boss and HR, my little comments wouldn't make a difference in reaching the final decision. I just want to hope that the deal doesn't work out and his boss wants him to stay as his DOG forever..

If he is able to break through the doors with his special relationship, this is not the culture I like at this office and I would be extremely disappointed with my team. I would consider leaving, seriously.