The Great Pretender - Don't Be Fooled!

I'm usually quite a passive kind of a guy but there are certain things that make me mad and I'm talking about jump up and down, thump your fists in the air kind of mad. One such thing is when people take over...lets say...a project while the project is beginning to do well. They run the project and take all the credit for its success...claiming that that project could never have been as good as it is without themselves. In effect they steel credit for something they haven't done.

Then, if the project begins to fail they start to blame just about everyone else under the sun for the demise except themselves. Not only that but when they actually do some work and put badly planned and considered knee-jerk provisions in place to save the project (or in fact their ego) they then claim credit for saving the project which in actual fact wouldn't have been failing had they done their job properly in the first place. When these badly thought out provisions fail, they again revert and continue to blame everyone under the sun except themselves.

Now as an employer, I would not be happy employing such a person and in fact I do and have actively avoided these people like the plague because they are usually wholly dishonest and can add nothing of value to an organisation. I wonder how Gordon Brown would feel should anything like the above mentioned example happen whilst he was in power. I am sure that as the prudent and shrewd operator we know him to be, he would not stand for it either and make all haste to remove such a person from any positions of trust and responsibility for the good of the country and its people.