Hell Is the CEO by Mark Mettler

Author:Mark Mettler [Mettler, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-12T22:00:00+00:00

January 12, 2016

Meet the new boss, meet the other new boss. Robert Jarrett was announced as the new Mark Stover, Tom’s fifth direct boss in eight years, a move he’d expected and prepared himself for. When Tom was hired, his responsibilities were created out of pieces other executives were giving up, in yet another flavor-of-the-day organizational redesign. Robert was one of those executives contributing to Tom’s portfolio. They say ethics are what you do when you know no one is watching. The corporate corollary involves teamwork and respect, revealed by what you do when you transition your responsibilities to someone else in the organization, particularly someone new. To Tom, Robert revealed himself clearly eight years ago as someone who really didn’t give a shit about teamwork and respect. He seemed more concerned with finding out whether a new hire was a rival brought in to cut in line for the next plumb job. In the intervening years, Tom saw him often enough in different roles and worked with him in an off-again, on-again way as their assignment paths turned and twisted to see some changes, some maturation. Robert was a hot personality type to Tom’s cool. He flashed to anger quickly and easily, but just as swiftly and ably returned to a professional demeanor. He channeled it so others would call it passion - wise of him - working to make that be the definer of his reputation rather than being just a hothead. Tom could respect that. He could see right through it too. Robert was calculating, like Tom was. He was smart. And he was a bully. Deep down, Tom knew that. That’s what those first few months revealed, so long ago now. Robert was also a long-standing member of Dutch’s good old boy network. And he was Tom’s new boss, the point of the stick, the proxy for Dutch and Patton and now, Billy Baron. So Tom would need to deal with whatever issues he might have personally and make sure he got along just fine with Robert. He knew that he would be just as indispensable to Robert as he’d been to Stover. And he knew that Robert was smart enough to recognize that pretty quickly. At least for the short term. In the long term, well, there was no long term anymore, was there?

Tom had had a chance to sleep on his dinner with Billy Baron and had awakened this morning certain that he wanted no part of whatever the inscrutable billionaire had in mind for the company. It was only a matter of how and when he would find his way out. He had to be smart about it. No doubt about that. No getting fired. He had to get to the vesting date. To April 1. Even in the short span of weeks since Tom began furiously working the numbers, when the white paper was published and the stock started churning, his personal situation had changed. His mother’s dementia was advancing faster than the doctor thought it would.

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