listen to your boss

after the second meeting in a row today with my boss she says, "anyone feel like going to cracker barrel?" i thought about my green salad, carrot sticks and hope to walk around utica square window shopping and replied, "'stacy' (co-worker fake name) is always wanting to go out for lunch. i wonder if she would?" and kept walking. as soon as the elevator closed i realized "ME! when you boss wants to go to lunch--GO!"

this stems from a few things. 1, i once readthebackofabook that said you should never have lunch alone. find someone at work to go with. someone in your industry. someone who can teach you something. help you. i get that. i also don't have an "entertainment" budget. and i like to go to barnes and noble and take walks on my lunch. so today i went back to my office. opened emails and listened to phone messages and she walked by again looking for people to go. so i dropped everything and went. we talked about the front page story i got; organic, grass fed beef and movies. good times. good use of calories.

so when you boss says something...suggests something...remember it. do it. ya know? and they say (who is "THEY!?!") you should get to know your boss' boss, too. keep your resume updates. so much to do. and worry about. but really....just do a good job. no myspace or facebook at work. i dunno....take care of what pays your bills, yo.

heart.