How to make the boss grumpy on Monday
Gleaned from my personal experience as a boss, here’s one way to approach this:
- When the boss is out of the office on Friday, call them up and appeal to their sense of safety. Tell them that one of their employees needs a new desk in order to prevent injury. The boss’s desk is the only one that’ll work. If the boss is a total pushover, like me, it’ll be no problem. The boss might put in a gentle word to please, whatever desk I end up with, just put everything back where it was so I don’t have to deal with it on Monday.
- Here’s the juicy part! Go ahead and move the boss’s old desk out and install the new desk. But don’t put anything back! Just leave it all piled in boxes! Feign ignorance when asked! Bwaahaaahaaa!
Yes, this just happened to me. Yes, I’m still grumpy. Yes, writing this makes me feel better.
How to make the boss happy on Tuesday:
Fire everyone involved.
That made the boss chuckle! :-)
Better yet.. On the Monday after you BOTH are back from vacation…tell the boss you are posting for a new internal job, and if he makes a stink, you’ll quit for a confirmed offer with an external job….
Bwahhhahhhhahh….
I love Mondays…. at least this one…
Greg
Or on Wednesday, arrive really early and rearrange everyone else’s desks, mixing up various things among a few of them. When people arrive, give them a blank look. It becomes a team building exercise as everyone gets together to put everything back. Hilarity ensues.
I had a client that dealt with hand-therapy in conjunction with the hospital.
The boss was a constant victim of the staff. Once they broke in to his office and hid his high-back leather chair.
Another time he comes into the office and no one was there but the nurse (a nurse is required to be on staff). He asked where everyone was and she responded that they were all out sick with the flu. He said that they could work when the clients come in. After a while he was about to call everyone at to get any of them to come in … they were ALL hiding in a closet down the hall.
The boss gets engaged (in Hawaii) and orders the rings. Sounds good so far … He has the rings sent to the office … As what I was told, the box was “openable” and the boss was in his office with his door closed. The staff opened the box and passed the box to everyone, clients included, for a good view of the wedding rings. They then close the box like it was never opened and called him. He asked what the box was and they told him that there was no invoice. Considering that there was no invoice they told him they took it to X-ray (just in case) . He didn’t believe them so they turned around and described the rings in detail!