Disastrous Dressing

So, New Edge Networks has this unspoken policy of wearing hawaiian shirts every Friday. This is kind of cool and I rather enjoy it. A couple of years ago they provided the entire company with new "New Edge" Hawaiian shirts to be worn on Fridays for our "Beer:30" party that takes place every Friday (Yes, they do serve us Beer at 4:30!!)

So, anyway, I woke up this morning and I put on a fairly new Hawaiian shirt that I purchased from Fred Meyer. It's a fairly nice shirt that I like and my wife liked (which rarely happens). I'm digging wearing it, it's comfortable, and looks snazzy enough that I'm dead sexy wearing it. Well... apparently I'm not the only one that shops at Fred Meyer.

I have a meeting I attend every Friday morning. I'm a little early, hanging around chatting with folks before the meeting starts having a good ole time. Meeting begins, we start discussing boring work junk and my boss (whom I can't stand) walks in about 5 minutes late. *GASP* He's wearing the same shirt as me. I'm thinking to myself "Crap! How could this be? He's a tasteless bafoon!!" Apparently he's not so tasteless afterall. Now I'm saying a small prayer, "Please! Let me get through the next 20 minutes without anybody noticing or saying anything. Fat CHANCE!! About 5 minutes before the close of the meeting one of the directors (who has an interesting humor I might add) pipes up and points out the fact that we're wearing the same shirt. Most of the people in that meeting know my personal feelings about my manager so this is highly amusing to them. I chuckle and say "Yeah, Thanks Steve!" and move on. Well, thankfully we keep extra shirts around here, I'm undressing on my way back to my desk and quickly change my shirt.

So, my day so far has been various people accosting me over the fact that I'm "such a brownnoser dressing like the boss" I think I will have to burn that shirt now, or at least never wear it to work again.

Return from Vacation

Well... I returned from a short vacation last week to a little bit of amusement. My boss apparently thought that he required me to do a part of his job. This normally isn't that much of an issue, for him of course. But, this time I think it turned out to be. He actually said, in a meeting full of other department heads and some upper level executives "I can't ship that because isn't here today."

Normally this isn't really that big of a deal, I don't personally handle the shipping either, but I know who to delegate it to. And as a manager, you'd think he would know his own department enough to also know who to delegate such a simple task to. Nope, he didn't. So, I come back and was assaulted with humorous version after another of this event. So, at least he recognizes that without me, he'd fail miserably at his job.

GO GO HANZ MOLEMAN!