Good Grief!

The no-blogging-about-the-two-bosses-downstairs rule is still in effect, but what if one or both of them happen to appear as incidental characters in a post? They deserve better nicknames than “boss downstairs number one” and “boss downstairs number two.”
What to name the new bosses?

Jay and Silent Bob

Weebl and Bob
The Doobie Brothers
Pinky and the Brain

Thing 1 […]

After Friday, boss-across-the-hall will become ex-boss-across-the-river. Because ex-boss-across-the-river would be a boring blog character, I decided to kill him off.
GG NEWS: On Friday, July 15th, boss-across-the-hall was electrocuted in the soulless office park men’s room after dropping his Blackberry into the commode. A forensics team has determined that boss-across was attempting to send several e-mails, […]

Don’t you just hate weblog entries that say things like “light blogging ahead” and “sorry it’s been so long since the last post?” How self-important. It’s not like Good Grief! is the New York friggin’ Times. It’s not even the Art Museum Area News.
Even worse is metablogging. Nothing more annoying than a metablogging blogger.
Yes, well. […]

Yesterday the soulless office park Business Intelligence crew, led by boss-across-the-hall, played hooky at Six Flags Great Adventure to celebrate our Award. For job security reasons I don’t talk much about work, but I’m leaving anyway, so what the hell?
A few months ago, boss-across gave me the green light to enter one of our […]

There must be something in the water around here* because things are happening. Big things. Superwoman got a job in San Francisco, and her first day was Monday. I know she’ll kick ass and I couldn’t be happier for her, but life just won’t be the same without Superwoman’s hospitality, warmth, and ability to listen […]

Shortly after he walked back to the restroom, I received an e-mail from boss-across-the-hall.

boss boss across the hall favorite geek

He is drowning in a .NET connection pool, which does not look like fun. But the big issue of the day is soulless office park basketball data.
Boss-across: I can’t figure out how to weight our horse statistics.
Becky: What?
Boss-across: As we play more games, the individual scores start dropping because of the way we run these […]

I found out where boss-across-the-hall got that Aquariass link. He’s subscribing to a new magazine: Sync, Stuff for a Man’s Life. Highlights from the current issue:

Meet the IT Gigolo!: “Ray Digerati” is a tech-support manwhore who went on Craiglist and offered to fix computers in return for sexual favors.
Bribe Her: […]

He went home sick yesterday, which did not stop him from e-nagging the entire team via Outlook. I have a theory about what ails him.
Recall last summer when boss-across went on a sunflower seed diet that made his legs skinny. Well, now he’s on the Turbo Omega 3 fish pill plan.
Boss-across: This is […]

We’ve all been assigned work tasks unrelated to our actual job descriptions. For example, last year I got the following instruction:
Tell Annoying E to stop sending those fucking e-mails. But say it nicer than that.
I’m happy to oblige because I’m a professional company woman. In addition, I excel at sending polite messages that tell the […]