Just for laughs

You wouldn’t toss a coin over your boss being cross if you landed up late for work. It’s about time you cut those morning winks, wound the clock and chalked up a proper day’s schedule. If not, you’re in for fire.

Bosses have a characteristic obsession with time: “You’re not on time”…”It’s about time you did this”…and “I want it to be done on time.” Rules, however, do not apply to one and all, and certainly not to the ones that make them. However, one ought to realise that one can’t do pretty much about that. If you’re an optimist, you’d say: “Better late than never.” But bosses believe: “Never late is better.” That’s what keeps procrastinators at bay.

Yet, the disgruntled employee may have this to say: When I take a long time to get something done, I am slow; when my boss takes a long time, he is being thorough. When I don’t do it, I am lazy; when my boss doesn’t do it, he is busy. When I do something without being told to do it, I’m being smart; when my boss does the same, it’s called initiative. When I please my boss, that’s apple-polishing; when my boss pleases his boss, he’s cooperating. When I do good, the boss never remembers; when I do wrong, he never forgets.

But you’d rather keep the smile on, if you know what’s good for you. For the first rule in the office book of rules is: Boss is always right.