This place is certainly uncontaminated by any brains!

The plot...thickens? Maybe congeals, like a hearty stew of mistrust and antipathy?

This morning, while walking back from a meeting that the boss ended up being postponed, my new coworker decided to warn me about trusting one of my other coworkers (who happens to be a friend of mine who has worked for this place for many, many year, whereas the one giving me the *warning* has been here for all of - what, maybe three months?) by telling me that my friend "plays both sides". I turned to her and said "Yeah. And? Everyone does." She looked at me for a second before walking on ahead of me. See - here's the thing: I'm very upfront about not being full of raging ambition like some of the folks around here. Some of them then make the tremendous mistake of thinking that I'm not secretly as devious and full of duplicitous intent as they are. Nobody suspects the accomodating, quiet one. The one who no one barely notices over there to the side at the meeting? Yeah. That's me. And I am catching every whispered word and eyeroll, noticing where everyone sits, and calculating who is in good with who these days. This is useful information. Then there are the people in the know who sometimes tell me a lot of things they probably shouldn't, if they knew how I could use it. Oh, not that I would, mind you. But...there's also the fact that they don't know that for sure.

As the saying goes..."Give them enough rope..."