My boss often emails me documents to tidy up and print on letterhead for him. This usually entails me going through fixing spelling and grammar etc.
Last month I had a performance review which he has since discussed with our Executive. Today I get an emailed document to tidy up and it’s the results of my performance review plus info on my pay rise and how it will be implemented. I knew informally that I was getting a pay rise but the rest is news to me.
We are a small office but he’s got a printer attached to his computer and I would have thought he could print it out himself.
So while you’re tidying up his ‘grammatical’ mistakes, how’s about fixing up some of his arithmetic one’s too. Give yourself and extra 0 or two in the pay rise eh?
Glad I’m not nuts for thinking this was a bit strange. Usually he just chats to me about stuff over coffee but this just plonked into my email without any warning.
I’m letting my boss off lightly this time because he let my new puppy sleep in the ladies toilets until leechboy could get here to take him home. That and I’m getting a pay rise
In percentage terms its about 19% of my yearly pay but that doesn’t correlate to a huge amount dollarwise.
Still considering what I actually do, the fact that they pay me to be here at all is astonishing. This afternoon I decided to sit down and tackle the last 6 months worth of filing thats been accumulating - took me less than an hour.
I’ve asked for more work to do, in particular jobs that would interest me but so far nada. Still leaves me free to play at the SDMB and G’Dope, so I’m good.
I don’t think it’s so much strange as it is not the usual standard business practice (which I guess does make it strange). Most companies are busy trying to keep their employees from knowing about anything that might affect them, not sending them memos about stuff.
