The "Boss Treatment"


IMAGINE... "While you are busy chit chatting with your friend or the neighbor in your cubicle, possibly gossiping; and, all of a sudden out of the corner of your eye you catch a glimpse of your Boss approaching! Suddenly you become super alert and turn to your monitor and talk in an overly animated manner as if you are discussing some very pressing and important issue in your code!"
That, I call the "BOSS TREATMENT" !!!

Today - Day 2 of my role as a "Boss"!

Morning had a brief discussion with the fellow and gave him a hands-on on the software that we would be using in our projects. The guy seemed eager to learn and energetic. I felt good and infact elated that I had got a rather hard working subordinate! (I silently congratulated myself!)

As usual I got busy and around tea time as I returned from pantry, I simply glanced into the lab where I had temporarily given him a lab PC to work on till the HR would allot him his own! So, as I was walking back to my lab, I glanced, rather innocently, at him but... there... the "BOSS TREATMENT"!!! He was sitting chatting with a batchmate of his... Another new joinee!

DAMN! I felt so embarrassed... Almost to the point of "heartbreak'. All my elation... The feel good feel... Absolutely sunk to a deep deep pit!

Why do people do that? Is it some sort of an instinctive behaviour or a habit? For, it's been only 2 days since he got here and already him behaving this way totally makes me question his integrity. Or, was it just an innocent act out of instinct? May be. May be not.

May be a few more days in and he would realize that this is not a jail and nor am I a warden as he unwittingly made me out to be! Ofcourse some of the rules and restrictions does make it feel like a jail but still... He'll see... I guess!

Till then let me brace myself for more of this "BOSS TREATMENT" and save myself from heart aches!

Ha Ha!!!

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