The End Times for the Officious Figureheads
Commentary
Later in this piece I discuss the HBO series “Succession.” If you are allergic to anything like a very mild spoiler—I don’t think what I’m going to say spoils anything really—you should not read this. It’s about real and fake in the workplace and how to deal with the difference.
Tell me if this has ever happened to you. You have a boss—a person perhaps one ladder rung ahead of you but not really in charge of the enterprise itself—and he is an entitled jerk, sort of like the legendary one in “Office Space.”…