This blog should have began three years ago when I first began working at my place of employment. I regret not recording the many, many ‘isms’ of my employer, but I might as well start now. If I can find out how to contact the writers for “The Office” I have several quotes that could easily come from the mouth of Michael Scott. However, they came from my real live boss. I hesitate to describe him physically or even give an age range, lest I somehow be found out. There’s a darn good chance that my boss thinks a blog is a swampy piece of land, so I doubt he’ll ever run across this page. Still, I’ll take few chances.
Beginning today, I will be recording his bossisms as they are spoken. Since he also likes to repair all our office equipment himself, I’ll be sure to give an account of what he’s repairing, how many hours days it takes, and what unconventional methods he is choosing to repair them.
Bossism #1
We’re running low on our stock of certain items, and my boss believes our customers are hoarding them out of fear that we’ll run out completely. He begins to discuss how threats of winter storms and hurricanes drive people to supermarkets to stock up on supplies:
Boss: They run to the store to get milk and bread and other groceries. These people become aggressive! It’s like a doggy dog world out there!
Me: A what kind of world?
Boss: A doggy dog world!
Me: It’s dog eat dog
Boss: Really? Dog eat dog? I never knew that!
He said it so fast at first, I thought I may have misheard, but when I asked him to repeat it, I was crossing my fingers that’d I heard right. “Doggy dog.” What a gem!
