Everyone should be boss for a week
I’ve been “boss” this week at work because my boss is on vacation. When I say “boss” I don’t mean being drill sergeant yelling at staff while holding some scary looking stick threatening to pound anyone’s face in who even hints at slacking off. I mean, make sure all work is done and bosses boss is pleased and doesn’t yell. At least too much.
The bulk of what I’m doing are the jobs and tasks I never really wanted to deal with before, because it would have taken some actual thought and I would have had to logically thought about something. I used to just “leave those” to my boss who always used to “take care of those jobs” .. well, guess who’s taking care of them now? Guess what. They aren’t so bad. In fact, they have become quite fun. Weird. Someone has to do them. They take patience sometimes. They are really fun sometimes. My appreciation for those jobs had totally changed. I’ll probably continue to do these takes after my boss gets back. I sort of feel bad for slacking on those before. Whatever. Moving on.
I’ve been saying “moving on” lately too. I would send out department emails, someone would be defensive about something, and I would reply “moving on” or “moving forward” because frankly I don’t care about excuses, I don’t care about setting the story straight about who did what and when. What I care about is did A, B, and C get done? If it did, I really don’t care how. Smile!
I think that everyone needs to be boss for a week because it’s opened my eyes up to everything my boss puts up with. I have a new appreciation for his position and I feel like I’ve held together what could have easily fallen apart. I even got kudos from the bosses boss, so stick a fork in me, I’m done!
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