I work for a great man. He's kind, decent, and has a good head on his shoulders. But I don't know what he was thinking recently we were going over things in his office and were discussing a little project that our operations manager had me working on. Due to other necessary tasks I had not had much time to devote to the project and the ops manager was getting impatient. So here's what my boss suggested. "Why don't you just get all this together, put it in a box, and take it home with you. Then in the evenings when you are just sitting around not doing anything you can work on it a little at a time. Then you will get it done."
Yes, that is exactly what he said to me. Does he really think that I go home everyday and just sit around doing nothing? I was so stunned I didn't really know how to respond. I did get the project done, but on company time. I have to think that he is really living in another world to think that I just go home and do nothing. I can't imagine not having something to do when I get home; in fact, I wouldn't have it any other way.
Ya probably don't want me to get started on this one. I will just say that some 20+ years ago I was sitting at a table with other women at a women's conference in Abilene and made some comment about about women's roles. Without batting an eye or slowing down the fork of salad on its way to her mouth one of them said, "Pretty much still ***** doesn't it." Twenty years later, which was 20 years after the "Women's Movement" which really began long before the 70s, sounds like not much has changed.
ReplyDeleteNo, not much has changed and it probably won't. This man and his wife pay everyone to do everything for them (he doesn't even feed his horses), so I think that he just thinks that everyone is like him with nothing to do.
DeleteI'm glad you work for a great guy. I used to work for a pretty crappy one. He wanted me at one point to come in at 10:00 a.m. and work till 8:00 p.m. so I could cold call people after they had gotten home from work so I could hopefully make more sales. Um no. I lived 45 minutes one way from work. The majority of that ride was through rural areas with no homes and I was pregnant. He hired another girl straight out of college that lived in town, was single, and had no other aspirations than work. I was penalized the rest of the time I worked there for refusing to do that job. It makes me so thankful to have the job I have now.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad your job is good now. I've also worked for some of those workhorse type guys and it does make me appreciate the good qualities in this man
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