As I’ve mentioned, my co-workers have prohibited me from making jokes during the last few weeks before a software release. We’re in one of those joke-free periods right now in fact.

Between business meetings and taking some time off, the Chief’s been out of the office a few times over the past month. When that happens, he generally leaves Olive in charge. Olive in turn has been threatening to leave me in charge if she and the Chief were both out at the same time.
My response to this threat has been to warn her against it. It’s just a bad idea and under no circumstances should she leave me in charge.

The Chief’s been out for the past three days.

Olive called in sick on Tuesday.

I ended up in charge.

When Olive came back on Wednesday, the big software release we’ve been working on had been pushed back for at least a week.

I certainly hope she has learned a lesson from this mistake.