A girl shared a story of how she had wanted to text her friend some gossip about her boss but accidentally sent it to her boss instead.
The short story is that the boss had high expectations on her team as they were directly under him and during the zoom meeting whenever her teammates or herself presented, the boss was constantly staring at them with the eye expression that they had better perform.
Here is the story
“I was in a very important and large Zoom meeting today at work with my boss, my colleagues, and people which belonged to other departments.
Now, he is the kind of boss that has very high expectations of his employees and will call you out if you are unprofessional or do something he thinks will make him or the company look bad in front of a customer.
He is not unreasonable, but if you work for him for any amount of time you learn that he has no tolerance for unprofessional behavior and will call you out on it.
In the Zoom meeting it was understood that we, as his team, were to be on our best behavior. My boss also has one of those faces where you can tell everything he is thinking.
The meeting went great, but the look on his face as members of the team were talking was one of “I am watching you closely and you better make us look good.”
I had my camera off as the meeting was wrapping up, so I opened a text to my best friend and basically said “My boss is staring down the team through this zoom meeting like he is trying to use Jedi mind tricks to bring them to the dark side.”
The meeting ended, and a few min later I get a text from my boss. It was then that I realised I had sent that comment to him and not my friend. His reply, “Should I take this as a compliment?”
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