Whats your boss done for you?

That's really great!

When any one brings food to our office, my boss  (sincerely) suggests that they bring a healthy option for me. So, if a sales rep is coming in with coffee and donuts, they usually come with a fresh fruit cup for me. I appreciate the gesture and extra effort.

Um, not a dang thing.  He does not understand my drive, and pokes fun whenever possible: "You mean you PAID to torture yourself like that?"  "You RAN 26.2 miles?  I get tired DRIVING that far!"  "Share the road?  Why should I share the road?  The road is made for cars, not bikes, so you'd better stay off MY road!"

These are all actual comments he's made in relation to my training/racing.

very nice to see you guys so appreciative.  here, i'm the boss and i try to encourage a healthy lifestyle.  it can be trying at times, as you all know, and most times i just get on their nerves but over time i have seen some changes.  they snacks they bring have slowly become more healthy and i see far fewer buckets of cookies, brownies, and cakes come in. 

 i also give them the option of working out here at work, if they want to walk, use the treadmil, use the elliptical or the bike i give them 30 minutes on top of their lunch to get the workout done.  when the others came asking if they could take the half hour for non exercise things (like this was some new universal benefit) i told them this wasn't a democracy, that it was my program, that i had the blessing from HR, and "no" they couldn't.  big hurrah for the workout people!

you have a good boss.

my former boss would reimburse me the entry fee to my IM events when I returned with my finishers medal. and he would also understand when i left early some days because it was riding weather. 

When I was first interested in tris, I was looking for a cheap road bike. My director (boss' boss' boss) got wind of it and gave me a late '80s Centurion. Later that year when I was looking for a trainer, my boss gave me his set of rollers. He never really liked them and wouldn't use them again.

That is an amazing story. Now when your boss starts to do the massage let us know. That is a whole different story! :-)

Seriously though, not my boss per se, but the organization I work for. We have a pretty nice fitness center on site with spinning and yoga classes, etc. , jogging trails outside in the woods (on packed dirt), bike racks, etc. It is really amazing. I get most of my workouts in at lunch and can ride my bike in and shower here. It is a really good deal. Oh, and they reimburse you $100 at the end of the year if you can prove that you participated in a fitness program (i.e., paid gym fees. No, they won't reimburse for new running shoes!).

You guys hiring?  Seriously.

My supervisor knows how much I train and figured out that I can't possibly swim three morning a week and get to work on time.  The pool doesn't open until 6am and my work starts at 7:30am.  So he just doesn't ever say anything to me when I walk in at 8:30am everday!

I think he admires my hard work and always asks me what I eat and how much I ran or swam!

I get more work done than other people despite my tardiness!

My boss is awesome. At my last day in the office before leaving for IM, my former boss (in cahoots with my current boss) had invited me to lunch. Well, he invited me like a week prior. Anyway, he drives me over to the restaurant of my choosing, and I walk in to discover a big table full of my work friends who all wanted to treat me to lunch and send me off to my IM. It was a great lunch, and it was awesome because they all asked so much about training and racing, and my race plan, etc. It was great to talk about it in depth with everyone, especially since they all planned to track me on race day.

Then, later that same day, I am sitting at my desk and suddenly hear "Chariots of Fire" playing from another part of my building. I turn to my boss as if to say, "Um, do you hear that?" and I discover that NO ONE is at their desks. Suddenly, like 50, maybe 60, co-workers come marching down the hall to my cubicle complete with music, cheering, balloons, noise makers, signs, and lots of fun gifts, including some gag gifts (e.g., swimmies in case I run into some problems during the swim). They also gave me a generous gift card which covered all my gas to LP as well as some other expenses. My boss organized the whole thing. Then, on Monday morning after a race, the whole team got into a conference room to call me to see how the race went .

Not hiring...just laying off more and more people. Another 6000-10000 set to be cut sometime soon. Not good.