There are a lot of tales about how and why our poet got
hired on in the Virgin Mayor’s office, but all of them seem to fall short of
what I suspect really happened.
I completely reject the concept that she was a pity hire. I also
do not believe she was a spy for the Virgin Mayor when she sought out
employment in the campaign of his opposition.
The Virgin Mayor’s people likely panicked, and urged the mayor
to hire her because she was just too dangerous to have her working for the
other side.
I’ve also do not believe these same people used her as a
mole inside our publication when she was still employed with us, although I am
convinced RR used her that way.
No doubt she talked a good game with the Virgin Mayor’s
people (just the way she did with our office gossips) making them believe she
could influence us on behalf of the mayor.
This, of course, meant that she had to somehow prove herself
and that she could become a valuable asset, especially if she was as close to
our publisher as we all believe.
Despite her best efforts, she ultimately failed to prove her
worth to them and she became relegated to non-essential jobs. She did try. She made
phone calls, trying to bolster support for the mayor and to find dirt on his
opposition. But some of this backfired, especially when it came to the Small Man,
who already distrusted her and is likely the one to force her to resign from
our office. This was made worse by her attempt to use the son of a key player
for the Small Man, and he apparently used his influence to isolate her even
more.
It is hard to determine if she came to believe her own
bullshit or not. But it is clear other people close to the mayor ceased to take
her seriously as a power player.
What other roles she might have played, what trickling up
she conducted, so not figure greatly in her status, and perhaps the story about
her seeing someone else get a raise figured into her final days, a blow to her
ego when she came to realize nobody really considered her essential.
In this scenario, she seemed to believe she deserved as much
of a raise as one of the critical players. But it also indicated her continued
need for cash – despite a $20,000 annual raise in May 2013.
At one point, I thought she might be addicted to cocaine,
but I have no proof of that nor has anyone else suggested it,
At our office, she was legitimately strapped for cash as our
former temporary boss claimed, although it is unclear if she had to do any
special favors for the publisher for him to toss her extra work for extra money.
But it is clear, the waning days at our office became
increasingly uncomfortable – especially if she had intended to keep her relationships
with the various players secret from other players, something I was partly
responsible for since I had raised my suspicions to our former temporary boss
during our meetings in the park and later laid out the whole thing before our
two publishers when I informed them that she had accused me of stalking.
Even if the small man had not force her out, she could not
have kept up that routine when knowing everybody knew what she was up to, including
the office gossips.
I think she faced similar issues while employed by the
virgin mayor, even though she was probably more successful in keeping secret
her various relationships.
If she trickled up to people like Joey D, Silvio or Garcia,
she had some clout, although only because other players saw her as the
girlfriend of powerful players, not because she had any person power to wield,
and most likely because a precarious balancing act.
While perception of having personal power is power, it only
lasts while people believe it, and she may have miscalculated how other people
perceived her
Eventually, it was going to catch up with her, which may
explain why Joey D is trying his best to get her a job in Peninsula City.
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