Conned!

Our sweet department secretary, whom I've recently got to help me with a global project sent me an sms early this morning.

"Are you in the office" she asks.

We work from home sometimes when we don't have any meetings and need a place to work where people aren't constantly popping into our cubicles to ask us on-the-spur questions, pull us into impromptu meetings, chase us for something that's way down in our priority list, etc.

In a meeting, I replied "Yes, in a meeting. What's up"? She later replies me when I'm in my second meeting for the day that my boss would like to speak with her and myself on that same global project mentioned late in the afternoon. It would be right after my second meeting.

"Ok, I should be done by then" I replied, and she tells me that she will call me to let me know when my boss is ready for the meeting. I managed to squeeze 10 minutes between meetings to send her and my boss 3 files on the project plus an update file. I went down at the appointed time and found my boss still on a previous conference call. So we waited outside her room until she was done. I used that time to brief and update the secretary on the 3 files, the process following and what she needs to do.

When my boss was done for the meeting, to my surprise, she strode out of her room said "Let's go" and walked toward the central area. The meeting was to be in her office. I thought, "Must be that she needs to get some materials from the secretary's desk or from the printer."

I follow them into the central area and lo and behold suddenly heard a choir composed of my colleagues singing the birthday song, saw the carrot cake with the single candle, and realised that I'd been conned.

We spent the rest of the session (while gobbling down the cake) on the booze-in-fridge incident on my floor (see next post).

Ok, so I was touched. *sniff*