Best Wishes & Good Luck

I must pay homage to one of the inspirations behind this blog- my boss. In a single long drawn out sentence, he's a boring-ass, treehugging, no social skills having, wishes he was the funny guy, whooped by his wife, tool. He's the type of person who believes you can learn anything and everything from a book, and being book smart is the only intelligence necessary to succeed at life. I like learning like the next guy, but he must have thought social etiquette was a waste of brain space. Unfortunately, the synapses are no longer firing and it's too late to build that network and he's determined to pass this awkwardness gene on to his offspring. Yes, he has managed to have a family and procreate, but you have to understand, her lack of personality is far more dire. I'm sure I will have a post dedicated to her in the future.

He's a nice guy, and I'm sure he means well, but he is absolutely clueless. One of the upper management people's wives passed away in her sleep a couple days before Christmas. The sudden death of a loved one is among the most painful experiences every person endures in their lifetime, and this happened right before a holiday. Poor man. I didn't know him very well, but sympathized with the tragedy. We passed condolence cards around to sign today.  I had written the usual, "I am so sorry for your loss..." then paraphrased a quote I had heard before, "she lives in the hearts she has left behind..." I read a couple of "my condolences," and "my deepest sympathies." Shortly after returning to my office, our admin responsible for the cards comes in and says, "You know what that asshole [my boss, we have a common dislike for this man, actually several other coworkers do as well] wrote?"
     What?
     "Best wishes and good luck."
      I looked at her confused, and reiterated, "What the fuck? His wife just died!"
     "It's not like he's retiring!"

Like she said, it's not a farewell party! Maybe he's distracted by other things or at a loss for words, but wouldn't you look at the card at what other people wrote? Like WTF? I guess it just doesn't click for some people... And this is just the latest example noted of the tons of material archived.  Well that's a wack job at a wack job, so with that said, I have chosen for that statement to be the closer to all my posts.