Backstabber Report

Make Yourself Indespensible To Thwart A Backstabber

“A useful tool never gets left in the toolbox.”

This fortune cookie-esque analogy is sweet, and completely useful to prevent a successful backstabbing attack.

People, not tools (although some people can be tools), are at their safest when they are at their most useful. You must learn to become necessary.

How? Find what’s in demand in the office and become the best at it. In charge of the filing system? Create your own so that should you be out of the office sick, or on vacation, they will have to call you to get something found. You have a trick to getting a piece of equipment operating correctly? Keep it to yourself and do not teach others how it is performed.

The more mindless the task that only you can do, the better, as most of the people in your office won’t want to do it, and gladly let you do the dirty work for them. Eventually everyone will expect, and rely on you to do it. Find enough of these tasks, and soon you’ll be the one who has quietly gained a reputation for getting things done.

Now, what boss wants to get rid of someone who is so vital to the day to day functioning of the office, or would allow a backstabber to convince them to do so?