Imagine for a moment that you are a new employee and it is your first day at work. You are settling in and making sure all your computer access is set up and that your telephone works. Everything is fine and you start to work on your first task.
Everything is going smoothly and you are trying to case the joint so to speak. You notice at a point in the day that your boss seems to be talking to a colleague for an awful long time. You continue working and still see your boss talking to the co-worker. It doesn’t look work-related because neither person is looking at a computer screen. Nor does the casual nature of the conversation suggest that it’s about work. You decide to just mind your business and keep working on your deliverable. But it’s almost an hour that your boss and colleague have been chatting away.
You wonder if this is what it’s always like at work. Your new boss doesn’t do any work but chats all day long with colleagues. Hmmm??
Finally they take a break but later in the day, this same duo disappears for coffee for another half hour or so. You think that maybe this isn’t always the case but why would they do this when today is your first day on the job? What kind of example is this? Does that mean you can slack off and get away with doing nothing for almost two hours every day? It makes you wonder, doesn’t it?
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