The genius move is always the same: find a decision that was never yours to make, then make it anyway with enough conviction that people forget to check your badge. It works because most offices run on social pressure, not actual org charts, and confidence is basically a forged ID that gets you into rooms you have no business being in.
Then there’s the sabotage-then-scold combo, which is basically arson followed by a strongly worded email about fire safety. Starve someone’s project of the one input only you control, wait for it to visibly struggle, then point at the wreckage like you’re a concerned bystander instead of the guy holding the lighter. It’s gaslighting with a paper trail, self-authored evidence for a crime you committed.
Public confrontations are catnip for people who’ve built their whole identity around winning arguments nobody asked them to referee. Show up to their turf, a meeting, a group thread, anywhere with an audience, and you’re just feeding a lion that’s already well fed. The actual final straw here is boring and on point considering this is a feud between executive assistants after all. A quiet email. A shared doc. A conversation with the one person whose opinion isn’t performative. No stage, no crowd, no chance for them to do their bit.
Self-appointed authority only survives as long as nobody bothers to check its credentials. The second someone quietly says “actually, that’s not how this works” without turning it into a show, the whole act loses its oxygen. Declarations aren’t jurisdiction. Confidence isn’t a title. And eventually even the loudest fake judge runs out of cases nobody’s contesting.
Author: Kayitsi.com
