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“Thank GOD its Friday!” - no more. Nope not for me. I’m done with it. Its overrated. Why look forward all week for one day?

Don’t stop reading please allow me to explain.

If we take that same energy on the Friday morning and applied it to a Tuesday afternoon do you think the office morale would be better or worse?

I feel it would be better and again please don’t stop reading. Let me explain.

Okay here is the scenario: you stroll into the office on Friday morning with one though in your mind, “Its FRIDAY!”. That at the end of the day you get two luxury days off to relax or work around the house or whatever it may be. During that Friday morning you are still able to get through the routine and get work done even though its the end of the week. Why? Why are we able to get the same amount of work done on a Friday then on a Monday yet have a better attitude towards it because you’ll be off for the weekend?

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We all have them. We all need them.

Yet for one reason or another we don’t use them correctly, well at least my coworkers don’t.

*picture this*

Its the middle of November and the air is a little chilly. Beautiful outside but you can see the smokers outside puffing away quickly so they can get back into the heat. Warm coffee in the morning at the desk and hot coco in the afternoon to wrap up the day. A good day when winter rolls around. People are talking about turkey day and the new year in the next few months.

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As when I introduced my boss to everyone prior I felt the need to write again about him. Although I could have entitled this “Part 2″ - I felt the need to only speak on one aspect of what he does and not his entirety as before.

I titled this the “Spreadsheet of Doom” for a particular reason. My boss being the great guy he is (said with sarcasm and insert laugh track here) has put together an Excel spreadsheet for his personal musings.

While I know many bosses do this for the purposes to track vacations and sick days and make sure that not everyone is taking off during labor day week. This is where my boss differs and to be honest its very quite funny.

Instead of putting it in a simple calendar to shows whose off work he will just put down each persons name and the date they are off.

Okay - nothing wrong with that but lets dig a little deeper shall we?

He also puts in there if there are any individuals that are tardy. Yes, I said TARDY. Tardy as in late a few minutes. Not hours. MINUTES. I’m not talking 30 minutes here people. I’m talking 5-
7 minutes.

He will actually add these ‘tardies’ up and count that against any employee.

Okay, remember how I said its pretty funny earlier? Well, right about now your thinking, “Its really not that funny and to be honest its a little mean.”

Being the omnipotent boss he is as he does this terrific spreadsheet - we make sure to do one for him. In the last 8 months he has been sick 3 days, vacation a total of 16 days, and tardy around the time frame of 1500 hours which is actually 25 days. Almost a full month.

So, lets add that up shall we? 16 + 3 + 25 = 44. That’s 44 days people. That’s like not working a FULL month AND then some.

There is your funny part. How do you like that?

Apparently he misheard the ever-so-famous quote we all hear growing up, “Do as I Do” rather in this case, “Do as I say”

In business I’ve found there are several types of categories. There’s the office personnel, the management, sales staff, and then theirs the operations.

Operations are usually stuck in the warehouse doing their “thing”. They move the boxes, use the forklift, and then there’s the music. The music is the best part I’ve found.

Looking at the computer screen for more than 3 hours straight can be depressing and can hurt your eyes. Answering emails and phone calls can ruin your day without a proper walk about break.

This is the operations spot. Walking down to the warehouse and listening to the music of choice (usually either old rock and roll or today’s pop music) for the day. Its a nice break from the reports and projects we all work on.

However, have any of you blog readers ever done this either to relax or go back there for a smoke to find out that their really is no common ground between operations and those that work in the office? I can speak with them about everything BUT work. They don’t know the other (office) people and they certainly are not aware the head boss. They only see him maybe 4 times a week and its usually mocked up to keep up “morale”. So, going to the warehouse and letting out your frustrations about the boss goes with out warrant.

Try this next time if you haven’t already seen this. Go to warehouse and talk to the guys (and/or girls now) about their family and misc things but ask about the boss and you will hear nothing but the kindest about them.

Feel free to post up your thoughts and your scenarios.