[Seahawk]

Eek.

If you still work for the State, be very careful...if 'Karen' doesn't get the promotion and any of your 'core group' cracks or slips up and she finds out why, you are all going to go down like a shot dove.

Going off road if there is an established promotion process, government organizations or private corporations, while tempting, is a bad idea.

'Karen' will win and she will revel in it.