I feel more creepy and dirty today, I figured out why our "Power Marketing" meetings aren't happening. The VP is in the office. What this tells me is that this initiative which is supposed to be taking 1/4 of my time does not have aproval from levels above my boss, the production manager. I didn't think much of it when I was first told that the VP didn't know about the "Power Marketing" plan, but now that I look back at my notes from the first meeting I have a very clear indication that this is not known above my immedate supervisior (the production manager). This scares me a lot. What happens when this whole thing blows up. It also explains the reaction the production mangager had when one of the people in the meeting kvetched about not having support from corporate. He hit the wall told her to shut up, and that that wasn't our problem. He is playing this like we have support. But we don't. Yet he gave several of the people in the meeting a code to which they should bill their hours. This feels worse by the minute.