Does it make me a bad person if I never want power, but am close to the people with power. The best example I can give is my job there are several levels of management Top down Director--> Ops Manager---> shift manager--> supervisors---> specialists.  I fall into the last category. Now one thing I am really good friends with one supervisor, have know each other for the better part of 10 yrs, the rest I had never met. Within a year and a half I have made very good connections with these supervisors and it's to the point where they tell me their thoughts and feelings about other supervisors and management and all sorts of things a specialist shouldn't necessarily know or be privy to. It's great because I just be me...I am not a kiss ass or brown noser, I work hard and do my job well and over time have formed relationships. But I don't want the power I just want to be cozy to those in power, it gives me a sense of pride that I know things that others don't rather that be good bad or indifferent, I know it and the other don't. What does that say about me?