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How to work around the Manager's pets ?

I was moved from TeamA to TeamB as new project was to begin; So I came under this TeamB Lead. TeamB has a member[call him puppy] whom the Lead has recruited unlike the rest of us who moved from different team.

We all work well together TechLead is really good except this one problem; The puppy hops around the Lead everywhere he goes[lunch table, team project discussion, team outing, cafeteria] so much that none of us individual team member get to discuss with Lead alone for even 5 minutes. Each of us have our own individual tech issue, project issues and ideas we would like to discuss with the lead not every discussion need all the team members. It is not always possible to book a conference room. I may just want quick talk in cafeteria or at Lead's desk. Some how this puppy finds it out and join our discussion.

Lead like this puppy so much that even though it is my Tech issue discussion:

 1. Lead listens to this puppy than my point of view. 



 2. If we do some mistake in our code and issue is reported , then Lead 

forward our mistakes to this puppy. [only to puppy; we will not even be in

cc] Even though we all are competent enough to resolve our mistakes in the

code.



3. If there is any issue in the code and we provide our analysis,  Lead do

 not talk to concerned team member instead secretly discusses with Puppy 

 to get second opinion.



4. Several occasion, this Lead has made fun [derogatory] about team  

members in front of this puppy.



5. If we resolve the issue by debugging the hell out of code  sitting 

straight two days , we will be doing our job  for which we are paid for;  

If the puppy debugs issue, then Lead calls it as puppy thinks of so many 

scenario; he is very good thinker.

Well, I am not sure this should be called as bias or is how tech lead should be [puppy is just happen to be lucky guy] or is it favoritism towards his own recruit.

But rest of the team members are frustrated, we do not know how to communicate about this to Lead. If any of us mention about puppy in front of him. Lead get so much angry, we will know that in the next performance review. So we do not know how to workaround this puppy.