“Hey boss,” I'm always
taken back and a little chagrined when for some reason I do something
are him somewhere and the service provider is addressing me. Now I
say “hey boss,” or if it's a bus driver. “Hey boss, where to?”.
It seems I went for ever not hearing this term of salutation and then
all of a sudden it seems I'm being addressed as “Boss” everywhere
I go. I immediately feel self-conscious, I know it's just a term,
something cool to say, perhaps as a way to address an elder person or
maybe it's the socialistic term of addressing someone who has
purchased something one way or the other in the case that I'm
thinking of twice while riding the bus went on my way to a movie and
on the way back. The driver referred to me as “boss”.
Another very good boss,
I've been a boss, I don't do the boss thing very well. I was thinking
about this today as a matter of fact I still have a letter opener
from the days when I used to work at the state of Utah as manager of
the Access Utah Network information system on disability questions.
It's a pretty neat little letter opener does a great job. If you can
keep hold of being. The letter opener was a tchotchke (I'm sure I
have spelled tchotchke wrong but it's close is a good a get today),
we would give away at information fairs and the like.It was kind of a
joke, me being the boss. There are only two of us operators at Access
Utah. In fact I was so unprepared to be a boss that I finally got my
boss to take away my designation of being a manager. I just have a
difficult time telling people what to do. I'm sure if you asked one
of my ex-wives or little brother or sister. They would gladly tell
you that I have no problem bossing people around at all. However, as
always, they would be wrong. I don't do bossing well. I don't manage
well that's all I can do to manage myself. I'm doing better, managing
my staff. I have noticed of late. I'm sure I can still do a better
job, but at least I'm more comfortable telling them what I need done
and how to do it. I've realized a number of great lessons about how
people want to be told what to do and to let them know if they are
doing what you want them to do correctly. It makes sense if I'm
paying them to do this service, and they're taking my money to do the
service. I still get self-conscious after a certain period of
managing however.
I think in another life
where I had been giving the opportunity to manage or even
instructions as to how to manage I could've done quite well in this
area, but that was not to be. It's nice, however, every once in a
while when I pay for my bus fare are flash my bus pass the boss looks
at me and seriously says, “were you off… Boss?”
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