Do You Know Who This Is?

A boss I know quite well had his sense of humor put to the test. Someone who reports to him found a picture of his boss on a blog. It was the boss’s wife’s blog.

Does that make sense? The boss’s wife has a blog that is actively read by some of folks at the boss’s office. Interesting, huh?

Gets better.

The boss’s wife posts a picture of her husband (the boss). It was a picture of the boss on a beach sporting the fashion of the eighties (about 18 years ago). < == Yep that is the picture to the left.

The Blogging Boss decided to highlight some of the more notable styles (or lack of thereof) and features of the boss in this picture. Take a look at it.

If someone posted a picture like this of me I would dig deep into my soul and take it in stride. Why would his wife post such a picture anyway?

It gets funnier.

Someone lifts the picture off of the wife’s blog and posts it in an email to a group of people in the boss’s office. The boss had no idea that his picture was part of a contest. “Do You Know Who This Is?” Everyone who received the email with the picture was trying to figure out who this dork was.

The boss doesn’t find out about this contest until later in the afternoon when he is in a meeting. Someone in the meeting mentions that someone had guessed who was in the picture. Now the details of the contest and the dweebish picture were being revealed.

The employee looks up at the boss somewhat deviously and says “Well, we found a picture on your wife’s blog, and well… We had a contest.”

The boss instanty knows what picture and is wondering who saw the idiotic picture his wife was so kind to post.

I’m not sure how this boss reacted, but if it were me, the Blogging Boss, I would think it was great. What better way to be humbled as a boss? And bosses need to be humbled from time to time.

The Blogging Boss had a great laugh about it. Hope everyone who saw it did.