Corporate Chronicles: Are you the boss?

While everyone is busy thinking of how they'll be spending their Valentine's day, let me bore you with the first Corporate Chronicles (it's not too serious by the way. it's just for kicks). So, I've been working in the corporate world for years now and I've had both unique and common experiences at work. I also met various characters at work. However, the most notable celebrated, or better yet, the most talked about person in the company is the boss. So who's the boss? Are you?

Well, my experiences tell me that you're the boss if employees stop talking and fixate their eyes on their desktop monitors when you are about to pass by... You're a regular employee if you've mastered the art of alt+tab-ing between excel spreadsheets and facebook...

You are the boss if you have a room dedicated to yourself and applicants with ties and heels carefully enters your room. You are a regular employee if you eagerly await for the receptionist or the secretary to usher you towards the boss' room...

You are the boss if you disseminate Senior or Executive Leadership's plans, or implement your own strategies, and you receive bad feedback. You are a regular employee if you complain about policies and management mandates that you don't understand...

You know you're the boss if you only review powerpoint presentations or approve outgoing checks. You are a regular employee if you don't have a stamp with your name because you're not signing anywhere so what do you need stamps for?

You are the boss if you don't have a long email "signature." Heck you don't even put your name as a closing to your email! You are a regular employee if you even have telephone numbers and work title in your email "signature." Why? Because you want the "boss" to know who you are haha...

You are a regular employee if you are part of the "grapevine" where informal "news," mostly office gossips, are coming from. You are the boss if you're the last to know of what's hot in the "grapevine." Why? Because the most talked about person in the grapevine is the boss! And the boss is called differently - under a complex/undecode-able codename...

But through all these, you know you're a bum if you don't even understand what I've been talking about in this post. Hooray to the bums - the true bosses of their time and lives =)