Agonotheta

Anal-Retention

June 17, 2004

All of the sudden, my boss has become extremely anal. As I said before, I'm getting to work at 6 AM and working until 5 PM. They're long days, but by Friday, I'm loving the three-day weekend. But this morning, while getting coffee at about 6:15 my boss, who is on vacation, called (apparently just to check up on me). I was too far from my phone to hear it, but she left a message where her anger was so obvious it made me afraid to call her back.

When I did, she said she was coming in to talk to me.

"Oh man," I thought. "She thinks I was late and just getting to work."

A couple of hours later, she walked into my office with some papers for me for a special project I'm working on. After discussing this project, she pulled out another paper handing it to me to sign. It was a formal "Employee Discipline" sheet for being tardy. When I told her she had called while I was away from my desk, she knew she had jumped to a conclusion. She tore up the discipline sheet, but then told me that at 6 I was on the clock and that I need to get my coffee before I get to work.

What I don't get is, why is she getting anal all of a sudden? She's always trusted me and now she's decided she needs to check on me. It's pretty frustrating.