My boss is anal retentive. I like that about her though, but what she's demonstrating as of late is being anal retentive and questioning when she doesn't have sufficient information and I'm the only one she does this to because of my lunch schedule.
I'm supposed to leave to eat lunch at 1 pm. I don't always leave
exactly at 1 pm. Sometimes I forget and leave a few minutes later or today, there was an emergency and my counterpart was running around the office trying to find people and I voluntarily stayed at my desk to cover the phones until she got back, which was about 1:20 pm.
My boss came back from lunch at 1:30 pm and at 2 pm asked my counterpart why I wasn't back from lunch.
My office counterpart had to explain to her that I had left my desk for lunch later than normal. But when my office companion told me this later, she made sure I knew my boss was starting to ask regularly about my timeliness.
Obviously, my impromptu changes in the regularity of things upsets my boss. So here I was thinking I was doing an 'above and beyond the call' of my job, taking my lunch when the office coverage allowed for it, instead, it's reflecting badly on me because my boss thinks I'm taking long lunches.
It makes me frustrated because my office counterpart is usually at her desk before I get there in the morning. My boss comes in an hour before either of us, so she's obviously impressed that my co-worker is always at her desk early.
But what my boss doesn't know - and doesn't bother to ask - is what time this girl goes home.
My boss leaves before either of us. We're supposed to be there until 5 pm. What my boss doesn't know is that for every minute this girl comes in early, she leaves that much earlier. She's not supposed to.
She one time left 1/2 hour early and I didn't say anything to anyone about it.
But that's never anything I bring up or can bring up and my boss doesn't think to ask because that situation is not as transparent to her as my alleged 'long' lunches. She thinks this girl is like her and just works the extra time in the morning and doesn't count it toward her work time because she's not supposed to.
She's wrong.
So now, I'm going to have to be extra perfect on my timeliness, so she can quit asking about it while my counterpart can sashay out of the office at the end of the day whenever she wants to and my boss will never think to ask.