DO you use this exciting new method of boss alert??

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Put mirrored sunglasses on your desk facing back so you can have a rear view mirror and see when the boss is coming. Quick! Click to a work window! Pretend to work until they leave! It works nicely.

― -- Mike Hanley, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Every day, I thank whatever powers-that-be that there are that I am my own boss. I don't know how some of U manage....

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― Norman Fay, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If you have no boss who do you screw to get ahead?

― -- Mike Hanley, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The obvious joke arising from that is so obvious that I won't make it, but simply only point out that it is obvious, in case someone else thinks isn't obvious and makes it anyway and then I end up wishing I'd said it first.

[thinks]

So, norman, do you sit at your desk wanking all day, then?

― Nick, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

One-Liners the Dave Eggers way....

― Tom, Monday, 18 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

MeaN, NaSTY & CRueL NiCK SeZ:

So, norman, do you sit at your desk wanking all day, then?

Now why would I want to do something like that? You should be aware that I repair bicycles for a living. A trade that is as well-paid as it is glamourous. (I love it, tho') You can probably quite easily imagine just how much attention I get from hot chix0rs, just because of the job I do.

Besides which, I don't have a desk, I have a workbench.

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― "Isserly", Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

God yes, you're right Tom. It was very Dave Eggars. When I read the introduction to AHWOSG I thought "Gosh, that's the kind of thing I used to try to do in my diaries when I was 18 but he's done it much better and now at least I don't have to ever bother trying to do it again."

― Nick, Tuesday, 19 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I actually caught my boss asleep in his office on Monday. And woke him up.

My life has been hell at work ever since. Doh.

― Paul Strange, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am my own boss - therefore whenever I wear my sunglasses I am alerted of my own presence - which scares the shit out of me sometimes. But then I'm not all there.

― Pete, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

FYI, my friend at work actually HAS a rear view mirror that he uses for this. He had it attached to the top of his desk.

― Ally, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

One of my coworkers wants me to do away with the sunglasses, as she says she feels it is to alert me when SHE is coming, in addition to bosses. WHat should I do?

― -- Mike Hanley, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

before i joined the company, i found out that at some gathering or another, these rear-view mirrors were distributed by the management. it's to keep you from being startled by people who sneak up behind you in your cubicle, they say. i'm SURE.

― fred solinger, Wednesday, 20 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

thread reviv e! we need more hanle y, right now!

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 22:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a big window by my desk so I can see if my boss is walking towards the building. Fortunately, he very very rarely comes in before 10, so that gives me plenty of ILX time (or 'me me me' time).

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 13 February 2003 13:49 (twenty-three years ago)

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