A Shock to the System
“He didn’t joke. When he said he’d bought the paddock adjacent to his cottage as a helipad, that was exactly why he had bought it. And for someone who had become Head of Personnel at Crasoco by the age of thirty-four, the idea of owning a helicopter was not fanciful.
With sudden clarity Graham realised the truth that had only been hinted at hitherto – that Robert Benham’s ambition and potential did not stop at Crasoco, that Head of Personnel there was only another step on a staircase that would lead through many companies, ever onward and upward. Robert Benham was destined to lead the sort of life in which helicopters were necessary, the life of a real ‘success’. Even in ambition his new boss outstripped him. Graham felt diminished and parochial.
He searched for some comfort, as he always did when threatened, in his opponent’s failings. Everyone has an Achilles’ heel – a flaw of character, an awkward mannerism, a past failure, an ill-chosen mate, an unsuitable home – that can a...lleviate the pang of envy.MoreLess
With sudden clarity Graham realised the truth that had only been hinted at hitherto – that Robert Benham’s ambition and potential did not stop at Crasoco, that Head of Personnel there was only another step on a staircase that would lead through many companies, ever onward and upward. Robert Benham was destined to lead the sort of life in which helicopters were necessary, the life of a real ‘success’. Even in ambition his new boss outstripped him. Graham felt diminished and parochial.
He searched for some comfort, as he always did when threatened, in his opponent’s failings. Everyone has an Achilles’ heel – a flaw of character, an awkward mannerism, a past failure, an ill-chosen mate, an unsuitable home – that can a...lleviate the pang of envy.MoreLess
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