The bossess’ golden words
The other day I received another strikingly typical email from my bossess. It was loaded with typos, significantly lacking in content, and really captivating in its completely random use of punctuation marks, adding to the confusing nature of the whole thing.
So after I had spent about half an hour trying to decipher what she had intended to write and looking up all kinds of things in search of hints as to what the hell she was referring to, I decided to formulate three simple questions about matters I wanted to be sure of, because they were assignments the completion of which required quite some expenditure of time if taken on seriously.
So I mailed her my questions (they were along the lines of “did you mean this author when you wrote that name?” – “when you write ‘network’, which one of these do you mean?”).
What I received in reply to this were some marginally serviceable answers to my questions and a really helpful hint to “not just execute orders but to use my brains”. That so totally made my day. And left me without any intention of actually using up too much of my brains for this task – and how could I? After all, I had spent almost all of them already, trying to decrypt her first email. What was left went into devising a witty, yet calm and innocuous reply I never actually sent, indicating my inability to not use my brains, because they’re just there.
I’m almost sure she didn’t mean it the way it sounded to me. But the woman teaches leadership, for Christ’s sake!