Gah, the current weather forcast includes moderate drama with occasional thunderstorms. People always wonder what causes the most grief? It’s not the notion that people have shoulders to cry on, or that they have their go-to guy or gal that they can spill all their inner angst to. It’s moreso that they need to make sure that those councilors are at least somewhat discreet. There’s some people you could tell anything to - but there’s others that are more useful to tell them something like “hey, can you keep this on the QT” if you really want it announced to the four corners of the universe (and probably blogged about as well). It’s only more unproductive when talking to a person about it and they say “fine, fine, I won’t talk to anyone ever again about x topics…” 1) that’s a lie, cause people always need to have some other person to bounce the rough stuff off of, but 2) just understand that not everyone really can keep a personal secret. And once it’s past the first hurdle, then it’s past any discretionary obligations and it just will tend to snowball along. You’re also never really sure that you’ve given full context either. If I said I’m pissed at Foo and was just venting at John/Jane Doe, and they happened to mention it to Mr. X, they might omit the reason. Or that it was temporary. Or that there was any number of additional pressures that caused it to need to be vented about (maybe it was a bad day at work). But Mr. X has no idea about any of that, and they just know (and will be happy to relate that I obviously hate (and must then have always hated) Foo. It’s so hard to find a really good consigliere these days.
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