My secretary came into my office the other day and said (with a notable amount of glee, I might add), "You're on leave after next week aren't you?"
 
I guess I couldn't blame her for being pleased... after all, I'm positively ecstatic when I know that the Boss is not at work.

 

"Yea, I am," I replied slowly, then brightened, remembering where I was going and realising that Oh MY GOD, its only next week!!!!! When I'd booked my tickets two months ago, it had seemed like a long time away. "I'm off to London and then Milan!"

 

"Don't rub it in," my office roomie grumbled.

 

Hah! I can and I will!!!

 

In other news, my secretary wants to take me out to lunch next week because it is Bosses Day. While I'm an incredibly chuffed at the idea (not that I'd ever heard of Bosses Day till now), I'm not quite sure what the decorum is here...:

 

1) I'm the boss and she's my secretary. Surely that means that no matter what the case, I am supposed to buy lunch, not her. I know this is old-fashioned and even somewhat patronising but then there's only one reason I would put myself through the horror of having lunch my Boss: I get a free lunch out of it.

 

2) We're the same age. I wonder if this trumps the Boss-Secretary rule in that now we're both almost like 2 friends going out for a meal in which I'd imagine we'd go dutch unless it was a special treat of some sort. Then again... I suppose Bosses' Day is a special occasion of sorts. A bit like how you'd bring your mum out for a nice meal on Mother's Day. Only treator wouldn't feel the same kind of love towards the treatee as he would towards his own mother.

 

3) Eeek! Does this mean I have to bring The Boss out for lunch?!?! Because that would be a completely masochistic thing to do, even for a free lunch. And seeing as it's Bosses' Day, that would mean I would have to pay but it would go back to the Boss-Junior Associate dichotomy (which is rather similar to the Boss-Secretary situation). Either way, lunch with the Boss just sounds like a daft idea.

 

Nevertheless, it's nice of my secretary to offer to take me out. I guess we'll see how it works :)