Meeting BoyPathetic Boss from anonymous
About a year ago, our company was in financial straits, made worse by an emotional public plea for money from the Boss to our paying Members. Needless to say, this situation was causing a lot of tension in the office. One morning, my coworkers and I walked into the tiny room that housed our department, and found a rather unusual scene. There were ashes ground into the carpet around my coworker’s desk, an ashy handprint on her chair, and a small dish of crumbled plant material on her desk. We pondered this situation a while: it was pot, and didn’t really smell like any drug we could think of. It almost smelled like something from a kitchen, though it was hard to be sure with the smokey smell that pervaded. When the rest of the office came in, we discovered that quite a few desks had ashes on them, another had a bit of burnt string, and the whole place smelled funny.
Suddenly, the receptionist came in, laughing, and waving a small bundle of dried herbs. “I know what happened!” she said. “The Boss likes to burn sage in her office when she’s feeling stressed, says it dispels the bad energies. She was here late last night, after everyone else went home. She said she’d lock up after everyone left. She must have gone around, waving the burning sage everywhere, and that’s what left the ashes!”
Right. She was alone, late at night, waving burning plant material over our desks (this is the woman who has burned out TWO office microwaves trying to make popcorn) to dispel the negative energies that had arisen from her own pathetic business decisions. We were a little uncomfortable with this, to say the least. When my coworker commented, “Hey, Boss, I found some funny stuff on my desk this morning, and I was wondering…” she turned bright red, and stammered “Oh! that’s just something…not important…just toss it out!” So she decided that burning sage in our office was the way to treat our financial difficulties, was too dumb to clean up after herself, and too embarrassed to admit it. That’s our Boss!
