THE PROBLEM

My new boss doesn't rate me at all. What can I do?My chief executive has just been fired. He was my mentor and under him I have been rapidly promoted. The new guy is political and has his favourites. I've had a some run-ins with him in the past and he neither likes me nor rates me. I don't want to leave; I like the work and money and the culture. How do I convince him I'm worth keeping? Doing great work won't achieve that - I've done that before and he's never noticed. I don't think being smarmy is going to work either. Any ideas?
我的新老板完全不看好我。我該怎么辦？我們公司的首席執(zhí)行官剛剛被解雇。他是我的輔導(dǎo)人，在他手下，我擢升很快。這個(gè)新上任的家伙搞辦公室政治，而且有自己中意的人。我過去跟他有過一點(diǎn)口角，他對(duì)我是既不喜歡也不看好。我不想走；我喜歡這份工作、喜歡這份收入、也喜歡公司文化。我怎樣才能讓他相信我值得留下呢？好好工作并不能實(shí)現(xiàn)這個(gè)目標(biāo)--我以前一直都好好工作，而他從來沒注意過。我覺得奉承也不會(huì)有用。您有何高見呢？

LUCY'S ANSWER

Things are looking irredeemably grim for you. Your new boss will be choosing his new team even as I write this, and chances are you won't be on it. He neither likes nor rates you and there's little you can do to change that. Don't even think of going to see him and telling him how great you are. He'd still think you hopeless, but would put you down as a pain and a bragger too.
對(duì)你來說，情況似乎真的糟糕得不能再糟糕了。就在我寫這個(gè)回答的時(shí)候，你的新老板可能正在挑選自己的新團(tuán)隊(duì)，而你很可能不在其中。他既不喜歡你也不看好你，而你又不能做什么來改變這種情況。去見他、告訴他你有多棒--這個(gè)你連想都不要想。他還是會(huì)覺得你沒有希望，而且會(huì)把你當(dāng)成一個(gè)討厭鬼、一個(gè)吹牛大王。

Your best hope is that for some political reason he finds getting rid of you is more problematic than keeping you. If so, you'll have more time to work on him. You are right that working hard is unlikely to impress him: in my experience good work always goes undetected by a boss intent on seeing your flaws.
你可以指望的最好情況就是，出于某些政治原因，他發(fā)現(xiàn)撤掉你比留住你更成問題。如果這樣的話，你可能會(huì)與他共事更長(zhǎng)時(shí)間。有一點(diǎn)你說得對(duì)：努力工作不可能給他留下好印象：以我的經(jīng)驗(yàn)來看，如果老板有意挑你的毛病，他就永遠(yuǎn)看不到你工作出色。

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