Do you like your boss......

As I stated in my previous post, I really enjoy my job and love my boss, and here is why......

How many times, in the same week, has your boss; taken you to lunch(and paid), told you not to do something, that she would do it herself because you hurt your shoulder, and then later decided to massage your shoulders to try and help with the pain? Well, I can now say, I have.

Beth might just be the most down to earth boss, besides myself, of course. I had a really great boss at my last job too, don't get me wrong. I guess now that I think about it, I have been lucky lately in that department. The past two weeks have supposedly been stressful for Beth. I told her last week that if this was her stressed out, then I can handle that. I haven't even seen her break a sweat over anything. She is the most relaxed "stressed" person I have ever met.

For the above fore mentioned statement.....We had a large shipment of training books arrive in the office Tuesday that had to be sorted and moved to the locations of the training. We spent two hours Tuesday afternoon sorting through everything and re-labeling them. I felt a little stiff after the next morning but not horrible. Then on Wednesday I received another huge shipments of boxes with last years PSSA test scores. They too had to be sorted and then sent out to the schools. When I woke up Thursday morning, it was all over. I felt like an eight year old woman! So of course when I got to work on Thursday everyone could tell that something was up by the way I was walking. Since I was supposed to be going to the schools, to make sure that everything was set up for the afternoon training, my boss told me to sit in my chair and do nothing. Well nothing that would hurt me any worse. I tried to explain that it wasn't that bad and I would be okay, but she left to do it herself. I felt really bad that she went and worried that it looked bad that I wasn't useful, but I found out when she got back that was not the case. When Beth got back she came to check on me and see how my back was doing and decided that she would try to massage my shoulders to help(the pain was in my upper left shoulder)! Then she told me that since I had been working so hard, to make sure that everything was going as planned, she was going to take me to lunch on Friday.

It was a nice lunch too. I learned a lot about her personally and her family. It was just the two of us, hanging out, getting to know each other. Like I said she is down to earth. We hardly talked about the office at all. She was very interested to learn things about where I came from and what brought Doug and I here. I think all in all I am really going to like working for her.

Ps. After spending the evening laying on a heating pad and then Doug doing a little messaging my shoulders are doing great.