Sep 06
Mrs The Chief
OK… so when The Chief sends you a txt message on your mobile at 2.15 a.m. asking you whether you can give him a “wake up call” at 7.30 a.m. because he’s been working his ass off ’till late and is not sure he’ll hear the alarm clock go off in the morning…
That’s when you know you might as well just marry the guy and be done with it…
WTF?!
I mean, look at the odds:
1) I’ve been working for The Chief for almost 10 years now, though I doubt he realizes that… It’s like being married and your hubs forgetting about your anniversary every year
2) He forgets about birthdays and Secretary Day and his defense is that he’d rather “show his appreciation at a time he chooses himself”… I’m still waiting…
3) I go out to dinner with him once a year and have him pay for it…
4) We are secretary & boss… need I say more? It might even be in my jobdescription to get it on with my boss…
5) We have been working together so long, and have known eachother even longer (almost 15 years), that we actually bitch and moan at eachother about loads of stuff at the office. I remember thát from being married!
6) Our kids are great friends and I’m one of few people that is still standing after being around the four of his for any longer than a few hours. And I am totally in luv with his little girl!
7) As we’ve both been single for about as long as the other one, talk of the town (read: medical center) is we’re “doing” eachother anyway…
8 ) I did sleep in his bed a number of times… OK, well, technically he wasn’t there himself as I was housesitting at the time, but still….
And now I’ve stooped to the ultimate secretary low of having to wake him up in the morning with my sweet DutchBitchy voice? O.M.F.G!
The marriage -slash- relationship thing between us? Nevah! Gonna! Happen! I think I’ve got it all now, already, without having to have to live with him anyway… I get off mildly lucky this way, I feel…
Still, devoted secretary that I am, I did do the wake up call… I mean, it wás a 6 million euro grant proposal he was working on last night. My call woke him up… He thanked me… in that hoarse morning voice kinda way… Uh-Huh
I did a txt message about 15 minutes later to wish him luck at the yearly meeting with the medical center board of directors that was first in his schedule… He thanked me, again, and informed me that his bed still felt waaaaaay too comfortable… I txt-ed him to get the fuck out of there, one leg at a time…
I trust him about as far as I can throw him (and he’s a big guy, so that’s not that far) on shit like that, so another 45 minutes later I sent him another txt message to see whether he had really gotten up… He said he was up and informed me that he had just gotten out of the bathtub…
*crickets*
Can you say TMI?
Right…
I think he’s up now…
This post got “snacked”!!!
Hmmmm. I wonder what the chances are of me waking up to the sweetness of your voice? Slim?
Non-inexistent? 
Oh well, I guess it’s Lola’s wet nose again for me then!
Did he really need to wake YOU up at that time of the night? :!: Is he so unable to set up his own alarm clock? That’s beyond me, really. Plus it was a text message so he assumed you’d have been informed so he could have blamed you if you had slept so deeply you wouldn’t have heard it.
Where is the frontier between private and professional life there?
I bet he will start to notice you if you wear those short skirts more often. And forget when you are bending over. ;)
Did you ever see “2 Weeks Notice”? That’s what I thought of when I read this post. When he drags you from a wedding to choose a tie for him and calls it “an emergency” you’re in trouble!
WDKY: God! I hope that means Lola is a dog… cuz if not, you’re in trouble…
FroggyWoogie: LOL, there is no frontier, because we are also friends in private life
Lynda: Funny, I never forget about that stuff when he’s around…
Metalmom: Never saw that one. I guess I should?
You deserve a raise or something. I don’t think that if my boss asked me to do that I would. I do ask my wife to do that though. I just can’t get up in the morning.
On another note I know someone that worked for her boss for about 30 years. He was married with a family, she was single and no kids. I think that she was set though, but she had is like in a book and he followed it.
You should get some from him on the side though.
Somebody said the other day that my “boss” & I act like an old married couple.
I puked in my mouth a little.
;-)
He’s your work husband. Which is exactly where they should be left.
You never wake me up…
haha, you are too funny!
But is all that stuff you mentioned really what it’s like to be married? Yipes!
In all seriousness, sounds like he is somewhat compatible (already friends, kids like each other), what’s the problem? :)
I worked for a cardiologist for 12 years. I was his Medical Assistant however I picked up his sandwiches for lunch, dropped his car off for tune-ups, took his dry cleaning in, babysat his child for long weekends, catered a party he had at his house, did all of his liquor shopping when his bar ran low, picked his kid up from school, house sat, cleaned his house whenever he had a romantic weekend scheduled, screened his dates and occasionally I took care of patients! And men call us high maintenance!
Mouseclone: He’s single and I don’t want anything like that from him… eeewww!
Tug: LMAO
Metalmom: Yeah, you’re right…
Fab: I could, at Dutch 7 a.m. time, sure… Let me know!
Jarod: Na-ah… I have NO attraction to this man whatsoever and without attraction in any way there is no deal!
ThatBitchyChick: Amen Girl! Right On!!!