On the grapevine: When personal and professional blur, it's all in the game

When it is about the boss’s kin, all is fair game. Even the most professionally managed conglomerates bend the rules and company contacts are used freely to help further the agenda of a relation of the boss. And just like that, the juniors get saddled with the job of securing column inches to promote the wife’s latest high society soiree or the daughter’s art show. On occasion, the lines between the personal and professional blur such that even the extended family becomes a priority. Like the time, this lady financier had her media team handling queries sent to her daughter’s mother-in-law. The little perks of being the big boss.