An instant message conversation that should have occured between myself and my, shall we say, “liberally oriented” friend. Instead, the conversation ensued between myself, using of course the business sanctioned group screen name used for all contacts, and my bosses boss.
Me on Business Sanctioned SN: hey… ever watch jay leno’s headlines? thought you would find this one amusing hehe http://www.nbc.com/nbc/The_Tonight_Show_with_Jay_Leno/headlines/H_3219/34.shtml#headline
***Horrified I stare at the screen trying to comprehend what I have just done***
Me on Business Sanctioned SN: eek my apologies, that was meant for the other window
***Thinking I could make this better by adding some humor went on to say***
Me on Business Sanctioned SN: it did make me giggle though lol
Big Boss: hey no worries
Big Boss: now stop wasting company bandwidth
My gut reaction, instant mortification! Let’s hope and pray that the some how the context of the humors link was lost on him. Not possible… Next week when “random” drug testing is requested all co-workers will blame me! Innocent lil me!!
Maybe that second job will come in more handy than first suspected.
What a stick in the mud! I can’t believe your boss wants you to WORK at your job. Crazy!
We know someone that just got laid off from Sandia for using the Sandia email for too much personal stuff (among other things I’m sure). So now I send all the jokes and cool news articles to Jason’s yahoo account…
-Mary
I really hope he was kidding Lisa! If you don’t have a sense of humor, you should not be in a leadership role. Plus, as you said, you are so innocent! Some people just need to lighten up. Sounds like your classes are going very well, that is awesome! We still need to do lunch soon!