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<p>If what you said is true, the manager who is the boss of Clark’s supervisor should have the responsibility to prevent this (i.e., giving Clark more authority) from happening. This is no execuse if this did happen.</p>
<p>It is often said at many workplaces that are not very well managed, behind an official manager, there is an “underground manager” who may be a different person and who has more autority than the official manager. This would happen most likely because the “underground manager” does more actual work and/or makes more day-to-day decision. There is no lack of managers in the world that plainly delegate most work he himself should do to his staff, because he is too busy to get involved with day-to-day operations by himself. If he is really too busy, the organization/company should hire more people/managers.</p>
<p>It was reported that Annie is going to get married and is going to have a honeymoon in Greek. Also, Clark plans to get married at the end of 2011. I speculate that he could not have afford a marriage and a fancy honeymoon trip any time soon. He and his fiance have been working for 5 years or so and still could not afford to get married but Annie could as a student. I may have my imagination run away here: Is there any “jealous” factor here?</p>