I am meeting my CEO for lunch today. I sooooooo wish I could be upfront and transparent with him about what happened with my boss. I wish I could say, you know, I know there were difficulties between me and my boss and perhaps that made it more difficult to keep me on or to promote me. BUT I CANNOT SAY ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't want to taint his glowing reference for me for any future job opportunities, and I don't want to indirectly be telling him that he wasn't entirely honest with me.

So I have to keep my mouth shut, brush everything under the rug and pretend that it wasn't an issue.

That sucks because I am SO honest and SO forthcoming. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. I hate pretending ,and I hate playing political games. But that's what this is.

I hope this goes well.