Every week we have to present to our Kuwaiti owner the weeks ops preview. Now I am in sales and marketing but in absence of my director I have to present the briefs on operations as well. Every week my ops supervisor who is a south indian comes to me and cries a bucket, regarding the issues he is facing in order to carry on his day to day duties. Well fair enough, but when I go to the meeting room presenting their case in front of the owner and also fighting with the americans running the terminal to make sure that my ops team can get all the tools to fulfill his day to day duties, guess what my ops supervisor turns around and tells the owner and the american manager of his that all is well and he can manage. And when I confronted him after the meeting he tells me oh I cant fight with them, it will put me in a bad picture in front of them. Now that is what I call sucking up.
And by the way this is only one example.