9:45 am: Fearless Leader wanted to have a team meeting with him, myself, and the only other guy in the office today.

10:10 am: The other guy had to run home for a minute. He said he’d be back in half an hour or less.

10:30 am: Fearless Leader comes out of his office and says authoritatively, “let’s wait until he gets back to meet.”

10:31 am: In my head I say, “yeah having a team meeting with only two people when the other guy will be back in 10 minutes makes perfect sense.”

People seriously waste oxygen and other precious resources just by talking nonsense.

#worknews

Right before lunch I chewed Fearless Leader out for withholding money he wasn’t supposed to from my last paycheck. But only because he’s done it off and off for the past six months.

Of course it was somebody else’s fault and not his. 🙄

But I still chewed him out. And told him I wanted reimbursed by tomorrow.

He just sent me a message saying he had a check and wants to see me before I leave work for today.

I hate follow-ups like this.

#worknews #allislost

I usually come into the work office between 8-8:15 am. Most of the other worker-bees come in around 9 am. Fearless Leader usually comes in between 9:30-10 am. No bones on my part, it’s his company.

And then he’ll come out of his office around 10:15 am. And start talking. To everyone and anyone. We all typically have our headphones on and are at least an hour into the work day.

Since he’s been doing this regularly for the last year and it’s annoying, I give him only the slightest bit of my attention. I’ll only take out one of my earbuds and kinda/sorta listened for questions directed at me.

I’m not doing rocket surgery here but building websites does take most of my brain power and it’s not something I can do with only one eye and one ear.

Earlier today I was digging through code to see what a website is capable of to prepare a proposal for a client. I didn’t build the site and it does a million different things so I’m heads deep into a 8K line file…and then Fearless Leader comes out and asked me if I got “everything I wanted for Christmas.” Like I was 9. Or that we had just met for coffee.

If Fearless Leader wanted to have a daily “regroup” meeting at 10:15 am, I would totally work it into my morning schedule and give him my full attention. But he comes out of his office and wants to gab about personal stuff and work stuff whenever it’s good for his schedule. It’s a huge disruption for everyone when he starts an impromptu work meeting 15 minutes after he comes in.

It’s like when someone’s reading a book and another person comes over and just starts talking to them without first asking if they have a minute or something. Okay, I do similar things, too. But not at the start of every work day. And only when I have something I feel important to say.

After Fearless Leader asked about my Christmas, I shifted my eyes to him, smiled as politely as I could, and said “yep.” Then I shifted my eyes back to my monitor and kept working.

#worknews

Fearless Leader’s office is on my way to the kitchen so I wait until he runs his “errands” at lunch time before I go to rinse my coffee cup and refill it with hot water for my afternoon tea.

He’s always staring at me when I walk by his office door, trying to make eye contact, form the slightest emotional bond. I avoid this non-spoken interaction at all costs. AT ALL COSTS.

I’m also very pleased to announce that even though we have a kitchen in our office space, we have no sink. I first need to leave our space and walk to the building’s communal kitchen area to dispose of any left over morning coffee…and…then return to avoid his glances.

We do have a fridge (that I never use), a microwave, and a toaster oven but alas, no sink. Fearless Leader assumed we’d never need a drain of some sort. Because when you have all other major appliances (sans stove), cleaning up is the last thing you’d want to do.

Hinkley Springs brings big bottles of water twice a month because the landlord advises tenants to “not drink the water” from the communal tap.

What about the microwave you ask? Well, there is indeed an upcoming story on that front.

We also have a one foot high garbage can that I refuse to use. All my trash either goes home or to the communal kitchen. Does it surprise you that our can is overflowing constantly because nobody ever takes it out? It shouldn’t but it does explain why I never use it.

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Peeps, I’m full now that I just ate but have not an ounce of motivation.

So I turned off my Instant Messenger (just for Fearless Leader) and will probably make some tea, work on my book while pulling a busy George at my desk.

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Peeps, I’ve been away from Fearless Leader since March 27th.

Not a good sign when I wake up this morning, April 6th, and I’m furious with him.

As soon as I opened my eyes, my brained picked up right where our last conversation left off…

In related news, I snapped this from a magazine last night:

I’m not there but I can relate.

#photos #worknews

I just told Fearless Leader that I absolutely hated working on this product. Unfortunate for him that he “architected” said product.

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Did I ever tell you guys about the time Fearless Leader ate all my apples in the work fridge?

On Mondays I like to bring in enough snacks, fruits, etc. to last for the whole week and just carry the actual lunch each day. I used to keep the apples in the fridge because I enjoy them best when ice-cold.

On a particular Tuesday I noticed my refrigerated paper bag of apples seemed kinda sparse. I chalked it off to me not packing enough for the week because I’m not AN ANIMAL about it.

On the Wednesday after that particular Tuesday the sack was definitely being raided.

On Thursday morning all the apples were gone.

After asking the guys if they’d eaten them, in a “no biggie” kinda way both replied that they hadn’t. That could only leave Fearless Leader.

What kind of boss eats his employees’ food out of the fridge? For three days in a row? Food that was in paper sack? A paper sack that I had been bringing into work for months?

I keep my apples on a cabinet behind my desk now. They’re room temperature but at least I’m the one who gets to eat them.

#worknews #foodies #fail

Never a good sign: when I pulling into the work parking lot and crossing my fingers that I don’t see Fearless Leader’s car.

#worknews #protip