When I wrote the introduction to my boss I mentioned the spreadsheet of doom. Allow me to go into detail a little bit about it. What my boss has done has put down each employee’s name, the date and how many minutes late. My boss’s office makes sure that each employee comes by his office so he can time them.

Every morning it’s the same thing. He says,  “Hi,” looks up and then enters numbers on the computer. Everyone knows what he’s doing but he tries to play it off. Nonetheless the amusing thing is that sometimes co-workers will go into the back entrance to get to their office just to confuse him. When he notices that you didn’t come in the ‘right’ way to the building he gets blustered and visibly upset and huffs back to the office.

We try not to do that too much.

So, the question that arises is – how do you know he keeps this spreadsheet. It’s actually pretty funny. Apparently I know my way around Microsoft Office products because he had me take a look at a “spreadsheet” which he wanted me to come up with equiations to add up weekly numbers to show a graph.

What’s even funnier from all this a few people around the office and come together to put a spreadsheet of doom on him. To track his tardiness and sick/vacation days. I’ll be giving updates as the year goes on but I will say that when a few people tried this last year it looked like this supervisor had taken at least 3 months off from work over the course of a year. That is above and beyond his sick and vacation days.

Pretty amazing huh? Do you have a boss/manager/supervisor like this?