My manager is a very sweet lady. She is, however, a tad absent-minded at times.
Every month, our department has a meeting. This consists mostly of the supervisors and the manager reading last month’s stats off the handout in a monotone, the manager congratulating two or three people for various random things, and the manager haranguing us all for the naughty-naughty stuff we do.
Manager likes to have these meetings on a Thursday, near the end of the month. So yesterday morning, I send her an email, asking which of two possible dates she’d prefer. I know she checks her email constantly, and we see each other throughout that day (including her mooching pretzels off me, which I don’t really mind but wish she’d ask), but I get no answer.
So today, while dropping off her mail, I ask about it.
“Huh? Meeting? Oh yeah. What are those dates again?”
I understand she’s busy, I know she has a lot on her mind, but how long does it take to say “the 28th, not the 21st”?
While I’m at it, why is it that I give the supervisors two weeks to fill in their half of the handout for the meeting (I don’t have access to all the reports needed), but they always end up doing it on the afternoon of the day before, meaning I have to stay late to print out all the copies?
This has been the whine of the day. Thank you for listening. Office Drone out.
