A Twist of Things to Come

I like Wednesdays, because Fun Boss is in the office on Wednesdays. Fun Boss gives people candy. And fun nick names. Fun Boss is AWESOME. (When Fun Boss is not there - she's been assigned a special project until... November, I think - we have a plethora of bosses. We have upper level boss who is awesome, too, but not hands-on. We have co-supervisor boss who seems nice enough but whom I have been told by other employees not to trust because she will throw you under the bus if it means less work for her. I neither doubt that this is possible nor judge her too harshly for it, at this point. She has done me no harm. And then there is Trainee Boss, who was hired to be an auditor but used to be in management and has been asked to "manage" the trainees, even though she's never done auditing. People say she's dour, but I kind of like her. Anyway.)

Fun Boss had us all go to a client restaurant for lunch *on the clock* as training. It really did help to see the details of the place wrt to the reports we audit, but... we work in a production environment, so lunch on the clock is a... Thing. She was also wearing a jacket that appeared to have been made from a decommissioned disco ball.

I LOVE Fun Boss. I really enjoyed getting to know my fellow sufferers, too. I met one that my friend who recommended me for the job said I would like, and we ended up bonding over geeky entertainment. Fun Boss teased me by saying, "Just trade seats with me so you can sit next to your new BFF. I'm so jealous!" But she was laughing. Then she let the youngest trainee wear her disco jacket and we took phone pictures.

I wonder if co-supervisor boss is going to beat us up over that one. I live in fear of co-supervisor boss becoming my full time boss, and Fun Boss getting moved to Inquiry full time. Several of the trainees are cross-training in Inquiry, but not me because they have put me on their most high profile and difficult auditing projects. I will be doing banking audits through the end of the year, I bet.

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Tuesday, MontBlanc execs came through for a tour, so we had to be in professional dress and were not allowed to leave for the day until they were gone. So I worked extra late and went to a writer's meetup after, instead of fighting the traffic home. I doubt this meetup will meet my needs. I need one of those faster-paced novel workshop types of groups, I think. I might just try to start one.