My cousin. His boss was the CEO/Chairman of the company.

He wasn’t necessarily a bad person, but my cousin held a deep grudge against him.

Many incidents took place, which I won’t go into detail. Sick of office politics, my cousin uncovered many of his boss’s career failures and succeeded big time in accomplishing those achievements.

He made very significant contributions to the company in those areas where the boss had failed. It resulted in doubling the profits and establishing a great company reputation. My cousin secured complete control over it.

The boss was forced to promote my cousin to the second most important position in the conpany and gave him a personal cabin and near absolute authority over other top employees.

For a while things were going great, but the boss began to dump many important responsibilities and expectations on my cousin, while he himself was enjoying around.

My cousin took the following measures to make himself indispensable to the company operations:

1. Began to work overtime and avoided holidays like plague. He conpleted several projects
2. Did everything near single handedly.
3. Took all the projects of his boss and completed them on time. This way, his boss had virtually nothing to do except laze around. This stripped the latter’s business abilities and acumen.
4. Repeated the same with other top employees.
5. Took all major decisions on his own and handled all departments (strategy, finance, marketing, sales, Business Development etc.)
6. Cut off all communication lines between the boss and other branches of the company. They were redirected to my cousin. He also undermined his boss’s leadership.
7. Created new developments which improved the functioning of the company, but did not tell boss about how exactly they worked. Major company policies now revolved around my cousin.
8. Ran the company as if it belonged to him. In short, my cousin became the company.

Result: The boss eventually was forced to give my cousin ownership of 50℅ of the company as partnership. He was also the next CEO.

The final insult: The boss had a crush on one of the prettiest female top employees. He was partial to her and gave her costly presents and special treatment. He invited her to a romantic candle lit dinner and proposed her.

She flatly rejected the boss. That night, she personally proposed my cousin for marriage. He accepted.

The boss threw a hissy fit when he came to know of my cousin and the girl. He could do nothing.

My cousin and his wife are happily married for 20 years.