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Have Hope · 06:57 AM

I feel slightly paranoid.

In our company meeting yesterday, I thought about bringing up a huge success I've had recently and since coming on. Then I got shy and humble and didn't want to pat my own back in front of all my colleagues, so I kept my mouth shut. But it's a sharing type of environment that encourages this.

Anyways, after the meeting, I approached the company owner or CEO and told him of my big success. Then it turns out my boss did not inform the CEO of this huge accomplishment? I was surprised. REALLY surprised, especially since this client has been a massive challenge since I came on.

Then I got paranoid that my boss doesn't really want it to be known. He had worked on this client account himself, and he hadn't had as much success, I don't think.

So I am feeling paranoid. Bosses in the past have all been threatened by me and have tried to undermine me. So I wondered if my current boss is kind of doing the same thing? It makes me wonder, for certain, because when I had my first big success with this same client, my boss didn't inform the CEO of that either.

So, apparently I have to fend for myself and let it be known. I don't like that.

I pick up on things, and I could be totally wrong, but this is what I am sensing... that maybe my boss is a little envious of my success? When we talked about it yesterday, he said "great job" and almost seemed despondent about it.

Oh, also, I should let it be known: we're only a 20-person company and my boss reports to the CEO. They meet and talk all the time about our client accounts, & how we're all doing on our accounts, etc.