TAN #176: SkeleTANs in our closets ... (Page 39)

Not yet!  You?

You are going to need some fancy handkerchiefs. 

This is good!!! 

Ya'll heard my work saga from Friday.
Well one of the "issues" my manager had was that for our daily status meetings, I often walk in the building right behind my boss, or 60-120 seconds after. We don't get in until RIGHT before it starts.  Some days I'm 5 minutes late. Some days I text and say I can't make it. I got reamed for (occasionally) not being there on-time when all of the other team members "make an effort" to be. Point taken. I could be more punctual.

Well in the irony of all ironys, yesterday my boss was so late that he missed the meeting completely. The very next day after scolding me like a child on the subject.

When I left for the day yesterday he apologized and thanked me for being there on time when it was he who was late. I just smiled sweetly and said "no problem." But inside I was pointing and laughing like a madman.

Ya'll heard my work saga from Friday.
Well one of the "issues" my manager had was that for our daily status meetings, I often walk in the building right behind my boss, or 60-120 seconds after. We don't get in until RIGHT before it starts.  Some days I'm 5 minutes late. Some days I text and say I can't make it. I got reamed for (occasionally) not being there on-time when all of the other team members "make an effort" to be. Point taken. I could be more punctual.

Well in the irony of all ironys, yesterday my boss was so late that he missed the meeting completely. The very next day after scolding me like a child on the subject.

When I left for the day yesterday he apologized and thanked me for being there on time when it was he who was late. I just smiled sweetly and said "no problem." But inside I was pointing and laughing like a madman.

Punctual is a very black and white subject here in my office.  I take it very seriously and have fired employee who show patterns or tartiness.  I think this is the easiest part of their job and expect my employees to be on time for their schedule start times, meeting and deadlines.  There is ALWAYS the occassional "incident" or "exception" but if I see you are routinely late for things I will write you and start an exit strategy.  With 50 employee, 5 minutes a piece it adds up and the overtime does too. 

Punctual is a very black and white subject here in my office.  I take it very seriously and have fired employee who show patterns or tartiness.  

We've always been quite the opposite here, which was the reason I was so surprised at the scolding. We (used to) operate on a very flexible schedule. You're 10 minutes late? You work 10 extra minutes. No tracking, clock-watching, monitoring, etc. We were even allowed to set our own hours, some people came in at 7, some people at 9, we all did our work well and as long as we were here within reasonable hours it was not given a second thought.

The sudden culture change is what gets under my skin the most.

I like me some tartiness.

We've always been quite the opposite here, which was the reason I was so surprised at the scolding. We (used to) operate on a very flexible schedule. You're 10 minutes late? You work 10 extra minutes. No tracking, clock-watching, monitoring, etc. We were even allowed to set our own hours, some people came in at 7, some people at 9, we all did our work well and as long as we were here within reasonable hours it was not given a second thought.

The sudden culture change is what gets under my skin the most.

Part of my scolding was that one day when he came into my office for some brief update (and mind you I was on a deadline that day to approve 80-90 items for a technical conference) I did not make adequate eye contact with him.

Really? This is what it has come to. Eye contact.

Part of my scolding was that one day when he came into my office for some brief update (and mind you I was on a deadline that day to approve 80-90 items for a technical conference) I did not make adequate eye contact with him.

Really? This is what it has come to. Eye contact.

Part of my scolding was that one day when he came into my office for some brief update (and mind you I was on a deadline that day to approve 80-90 items for a technical conference) I did not make adequate eye contact with him.

Really? This is what it has come to. Eye contact.

Part of my scolding was that one day when he came into my office for some brief update (and mind you I was on a deadline that day to approve 80-90 items for a technical conference) I did not make adequate eye contact with him.

Really? This is what it has come to. Eye contact.

Well maybe you should stop looking at his junk

Lisa - this boss sounds like he doesn't know how to manage or communicate with people.  I know you love the company you work for, but maybe it's time to look for a place that will love you back and respect you for all that you do? 

Lisa - this boss sounds like he doesn't know how to manage or communicate with people.  I know you love the company you work for, but maybe it's time to look for a place that will love you back and respect you for all that you do? 

employers don't love their employees anymore.  you are lucky if they give half a crap about you.

Hi TAN!

Nothing on the to do list other than a swim later today.  What the heck shall I do with myself all day?