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so i think my boss is going through menopause. not exactly shocking news, until you realize that my boss is a man. call it "man-o-pause" if you want, but everyday is a constant battle over the thermostat. this powerful little device is conveniently located in his bright, sunny office...overlooking Beverly Blvd. he has windows. he is flooded with sunlight and accolades. I, the peon, sit in a cavelike domain that exists in the hallway, surrounded by telephones and computer magazines. i am bathed in countless watts of flourescent light. i stare at blank shit-taupe walls all day, feeling every excrutiating minute that exists between 9:30 AM and 6:30 PM M-F. sadly, a good portion of these minutes are spent in the great thermostat war of 2004....
my boss arrives. A/C comes on full blast. i put on whatever jacket, sweater or down comforter that i've brought for the day. this is the first half hour of my morning. he exits his domain periodically to chat it up with "his boys," so i sneak into the "ice box" and crank the temp up to 76 degrees. apon his return, it usually takes him about 20 minutes to realize that it's slightly above freezing and down down down goes the tstat.
i'm fairly certain that he doesn't realize his thermostat also mandates the temperature of the bathrooms in the lobby. you try taking a piss when your bladder has lodged itself far up into your body cavity, huddling around your other organs. human parts can only function appropriately in certain temperature ranges. porcelain does not conduct heat. i pity the eskimos.
one day the tstat wouldn't work. it was broken. i felt encircled by an unusual, glorious warmth. i heard angels singing. no, i heard my boss yelling for me to call down to facilities ASAP!!!! so i stalled. said it was a "generator problem, facilites knew about it." 45 minutes later he was panicking. guilt settled in and i called down. up comes the engineer, "yep it's broken." thanks dude, now is there anyway that you have to "order a part" and it won't be in until, say, next tuesday? negative. the "cool flo" was back in business by lunch...and didn't turn off until 6:25 PM.
it's always worse when he has a meeting in his office. all that hot air blasting around really warms up the place. i light matches as the temperature plummets. it the artic tundra, bossman is in peak form while he and his team plot more ways to take over the universe.... or as i've recently discovered, they're probably watching March Madness on his computer. since he's the boss, he gets to stream video. i, however, can't even send out an email over 20K. back to the gully, slave. point being, i schedule his meetings in a conference room whenever possible. if the room is booked, i do whatever is in my power to sabotage the other agent's meeting.
i must point out that i'm not sure of my boss's take on this. he obviously knows that someone is foiling his polar efforts, yet i doubt he will confront me. he's weak. for christmas, i debated whether or not to make him a "Degree Antipersperant" gift basket. other coworkers thought that could be "mildly offensive". what do they know.
it would make more sense to raise the issue in a mature manner and democratically resolve the matter with a compromise, but i shun this tactic. why? would that make a great blog? i think not. welcome to my world, everyone.
~JFPasst
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