1040, George Cukor

Don’t ask your supervisor to be your friend on Facebook.  Period.  If you do (or if your supervisor adds you and you feel obligated to accept), put him or her on limited profile or decide that your profile will be strictly professional.  Otherwise it will backfire on you.

Case in point:

An employee called in sick today, which was supposed to be her first day back from vacation.  Something she ate didn’t agree with her and she had been throwing up all night. 

I was pretty sure that it was actually a hangover and not something she ate, but I was willing to turn a blind eye (she is, after all, one of our rockstar performers).  One Facebook login later I see that she is, in fact, still living it up on vacation.  Not only is she posting about not even being back in town, she shares that she’s currently drunk - at 1:30 pm - via status update.

How am I supposed to look the other way now when you spell out for me that you lied?

My management style is generally pretty laid back.  If you get your work done correctly and on time, you can play on Facebook as much as you’d like.  But don’t put me in the position where I have to be the bad guy.  I’m more annoyed about that than the fact that she called in.

#prof

No, not from the booze (although that would be nice).  From candy.  Chocolate candy.  White chocolate candy.  Colorful candy.  Candy wrapped in paper.  Candy from the jar.  Candy, candy, candy.

This glorious girl’s weekend happened to take place at my house.  Who gets stuck with all the leftover food Monday morning?  Me, of course. 

So I pitched the salsa verde and the leftover cake and took three huge bags of candy to the office.  The vultures usually get to it the first day and BOOM, it’s gone.

But, voila!  It’s still here and we’re approaching Wednesday afternoon!

This would be fine if I didn’t get up every time I took a walk to the ladies room and grabbed a handful of M&M’s, wouldn’t it?

But I don’t.  And it’s not fine.

Me: I feel like I’m in a relationship with your laptop.  All you do is work.

Him: Honey, no.  You’re just in a relationship with an attorney.