[ WP ] Company X hires you to spy on company Y from inside . Your job on company Y is to spy on company X .

It's a vonderful sight to see your name on the door at the office. At least it would have been if I was not already working at the same company but in another department. Confusing? Let me explain: 
 
 I was hired at Coca-Cola more than 10 years ago. In a few years I was a middle manager in charge of online presence. 10 years ago the internet was very different, and when social media appeared I was one of the first in the company to realise it's potential. This catapulted me in the higher circles where I met some pretty influencial people. In just a few years I was one of the youngest bosses there. That's when my life took a turn for the weird. I remember the conversation with the CEO like it was yesterday: 
 - So John, I have a weird proposition for you. I confide in you because I am certain of your loyalty and I know you are motivated not by position or money, but by being challenged every day. So this is what I want you to do 
 
 ( At this point I was fairly certain that I was either fired or received a promotion. Nothing could have prepared me for what came next ) 
 
 - I want to to get a job at Pepsi Co. And then to spy on them to me. You will get an enourmous sum of money from us where you can fuel your drug habit. 
 
 I looked at him with a blank stare, I thought I had hidden my drug problems quite well. Apparantely I did not. 
 
 Anyway, that was a few years ago. I applied to Pepsi and presented myself at the interview as a disgrunted employee that wants to jump ship. As I was relative known in the industry and I knew lots of things about Coca-Cola I was quickly hired. I would give them honest insight as best I knew and I also made friends with the people I worked. It was not hard as I always managed to make friends. Every weekend I would meet a guy at a fast food joint and we would discuss what I have learned that week. 
 
 So during the years I would slowly climb ranks inside the company, gaining some promotions along the way, and at the same time getting a lot more money from cocacola for information. Soon I was able to get vital information about strategy and vision from the VPs and high placed managers there. 
 
 This quite good life ended a few months ago when I was called in the office of one of many VPs there, a guy named Clint. We've been close friends for some while and at first I thought it was a social meeting. But as soon as I entered my mood dropped like a hammer. As he started talking I imediately thought that I would be either fired or get a promotion. You know what I mean? 
 
 So yeah, I was once asked by a senior manager to go to the competition to spy on them. The shock of the disscution was very different from the first one, and this time I was more inclined to jump ship. Especially since they would pay me a ton of money for this. 
 
 So yeah, after 2 years of working in Coca-Cola as a middle manager I got my own office with my own name on it. That's when I started to realise that my climb through the ranks must stop asap, otherwise I would start to meet people that knew I quit to work at Pepsi.
