Mostly, a little heads up pre meetin. Meetings are where you get to watch the players, manipulators, brown nosers and such, work their magic. Beware the ever present person you see hangin at the bar, pumping someone they would never hang with elsewhere for info. Another place to notice them, is that they are constantly monitoring you, making snide comments when you pass by, which you can barely hear and seeming to always be out in the open, watching everyone. They will smell of ass kiss, if you watch them and they aren't really very clever, but sure as hell think they are. They also attach themselves to upper mgmt. and flirt once they have a few drinks in them. That's both sexes, children. Its fun to watch. Don't confuse this with the poor soul who gets stuck next to upper mgmt. That's unintentional. Nope it will be obvious they are thrilled to be in the spot light and usually are doing something, not of any real importance, but anything to stand out. Usually, it will be seriously lame, like bleached teeth or putting together some computer shit that a 2 yr old could assemble or use to present with.
Beware the presence of someone at your table or in your group who always seems to be sitting directly opposite manager, so the two of them can keep an eye on everyone at the table. Notice how often manager and ass kisses eyes lock up and follow them to the bar afterwards, when they think no one notices. Thats fun. Talk about a buzz kill. Paranoid schitzy's, both of them and for good reason. When you are operating together doing the dirty on everyone else, its important to make sure the rest of you victims aren't cookin something up on their own. Only managers and their sucks ups are allowed to plot against everyone else. In event you don't believe this, you haven't been around here long.