🪞 Mirror Me Blog Series: Portmeirion Scandal — Part XIV "Makayla Knew: The Pipeline of Passive Power"

🕷️ The Spider in the Web

This wasn’t just negligence.
Makayla didn’t “fail to act.”
Makayla oversaw the entire operation.

She wasn’t some soft-spoken bystander trying to maintain peace — she was Juliet’s boss at CFS, and the one who gave Jennifer her Accounts Payable Manager title in the first place.

So when the chaos erupted?
Makayla wasn’t caught off guard — she was simply silent.

🧩 Connect the Dots:

• Jennifer was placed in a management role she was unqualified for.

• Jewel Martin (Black, AP trained) spoke up. She was excluded.

• Then William Rafferty (white) started one week before me, hired as a Financial Analyst.

• I (Black, AP trained) was hired next.

• When William left, another temp was brought in quickly — a revolving door of temporary hires.

Dominique personally told me: “I have to keep bodies in those chairs otherwise Paula will take them from me.”

That comment stayed with me. It explained why Dominique clung to temps — not for support, but for territorial control.

I even reported this to Paula Hawks. Before the previous AP manager resigned, the department only needed one AP Manager and one AP Clerk — and that Clerk was Jewel.

So why the sudden explosion of temps?

What changed?

The answer: Protection. Diversion. Control.

🧊 Makayla’s Method: Chilling in Plain Sight

Here’s what makes this darker:

Makayla knew what was happening.
Juliet went to her.
Jewel came to me when she noticed.

Jewel asked if I told Juliet anything because Juliet had suddenly reached out to her asking strange questions — not just about her own position, but about me, Jennifer, and whether she was planning to leave.

That was when I stopped talking to Juliet.

I realized: She wasn’t supporting me — she was scouting her next move.

👑 The Politics of Passive Power

This wasn’t support. This was surveillance.
Juliet collected data.
Makayla locked the door.

I was not hired to help. I was hired to appear helpful while the real plan unfolded: to replace Jewel if she walked or forced out.

It was never about empowerment — it was about optics.

🧠 Spot the Narc Traits:

• Strategic silence

• Surveillance disguised as support

• Revolving door of temps

• Diversity optics without inclusion

✍🏽 Reflection Prompt:

Have you ever been part of a system that claimed to empower you, but quietly used you as cover? What signs did you miss?

💬 Affirmation:

“I am not disposable. I am not your cover story. I am the truth you tried to silence.”

📌 To Be Continued in Part XV: Tomorrow, we’ll expose CFS Staffing’s inner playbook — how “opportunity” was just another trap, and how Juliet and Makayla tag-teamed the illusion of care while orchestrating replacements.

🕊️ We see the game now. And we’re not playing it anymore.