What Time Is It, Anyway?
My manager at work (Skippy Whitebread) NEVER comes to work on time. Well, just about never. In the 5+ years I've worked for him, he's been here before 8:00 AM probably all of 3 times, and that's only because big shots were in town and had scheduled 8:00 AM meetings.
Skippy usually wanders in anywhere from 20 - 45 minutes late, depending on the day. Sometimes he calls and says that he's running behind, but usually he doesn't. What a good example to set for your employees, eh?
Anyway, imagine my surprise when I saw him walking down the hall this morning at 7:40.
Huh? What's going on? Why in the world would Skippy actualy be here before he's supposed to?
Ah - then I remembered. Daylights Savings Time. Spring forward, fall back, and all that jazz. Could it be that Skippy was that dumb that he forgot to set his clock back an hour? This is the question I asked him.
Amazingly, his answer was YES! He didn't realize he was 20 minutes early until he got here!
Good Lord.
Now, I pick on Skippy quite a bit - mainly because he deserves it. He's more of a bureaucrat than a manager, and I'd probably drop over dead if he ever said "Tommy, I think you're doing a great job." He's also deadly afraid of speaking to upper management, so our serious problems with the computers and our lack of assistance falls on deaf ears, because he won't take our issues to management and ask for assistance or updated tools. He spends his days (once he shows up, that is) in meetings, and rarely interacts with anyone in his team, unless it's when we happen to join him on a conference call. So Skippy is a fairly ineffective manager.
But this - showing up early? That might be the beginning of a whole new Skippy Whitebread. Perhaps the worm has turned. Perhaps he'll start coming to work on time everyday. Perhaps he'll even give us a little credit and acknowledgement of the hard work we do.
Ha, ha, ha. Happy Halloween. $10 says he leaves a half hour early today to make up for his early arrival.
Skippy usually wanders in anywhere from 20 - 45 minutes late, depending on the day. Sometimes he calls and says that he's running behind, but usually he doesn't. What a good example to set for your employees, eh?
Anyway, imagine my surprise when I saw him walking down the hall this morning at 7:40.
Huh? What's going on? Why in the world would Skippy actualy be here before he's supposed to?
Ah - then I remembered. Daylights Savings Time. Spring forward, fall back, and all that jazz. Could it be that Skippy was that dumb that he forgot to set his clock back an hour? This is the question I asked him.
Amazingly, his answer was YES! He didn't realize he was 20 minutes early until he got here!
Good Lord.
Now, I pick on Skippy quite a bit - mainly because he deserves it. He's more of a bureaucrat than a manager, and I'd probably drop over dead if he ever said "Tommy, I think you're doing a great job." He's also deadly afraid of speaking to upper management, so our serious problems with the computers and our lack of assistance falls on deaf ears, because he won't take our issues to management and ask for assistance or updated tools. He spends his days (once he shows up, that is) in meetings, and rarely interacts with anyone in his team, unless it's when we happen to join him on a conference call. So Skippy is a fairly ineffective manager.
But this - showing up early? That might be the beginning of a whole new Skippy Whitebread. Perhaps the worm has turned. Perhaps he'll start coming to work on time everyday. Perhaps he'll even give us a little credit and acknowledgement of the hard work we do.
Ha, ha, ha. Happy Halloween. $10 says he leaves a half hour early today to make up for his early arrival.
posted by Tommy G at
7:59 AM
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