November 05, 2004
An Open Announcement To Everything I Work With
No, I do not know where my Boss is.
I do not have x-ray vision, and if I did, I certainly wouldn't be spending so much time in a place filled with so many unattractive people. So if you are standing at my cubicle and cannot see if my Boss is in his office from where you are, than neither can I.
My Boss does not notify me when he leaves his office. Nor does he give an estimated time of his return. He does not say:
"I'm going to lunch.""I am going to the bathroom, but I only have to pee, so I'll be back in just a minute."
"I'm going home for a couple hours because I don't trust my teenaged daughter to be home alone."
"I'm going to meander around the office and stop for conversation at random cubicles, so that when my wife calls, you have to jog up and down the halls to find me."
If he's in a meeting, that I can find out, as well as when the meeting is scheduled to be over. But then again, you have the same exact calendar system that my Boss and I have, so you can find that out just as easily yourself, from your own desk. Without interrupting me because I'm busy reading Dooce, for Pete's sake!