I know it sounds strange to brag about myself, but the company I work for is one of those big listed companies whose name most people know. As it's a big company, there are all kinds of interpersonal relationships within the company. They're called "academic cliques." People who graduated from the same university form factions within the company, and so on. The boss of that academic clique was a manager called Nakata. It seems that Nakata used the promise of my promotion as bait to persistently nagging about my wife or something...