Exchange line 6 for “Su-u-ure. I bet you can’t walk away from my desk without asking me to do something.”
A clever manager would go away and come back in 10 minutes with twice as much “urgent” work as previously and no pretence, but it would be funny for those 10 minutes.
Exchange line 6 for “Su-u-ure. I bet you can’t walk away from my desk without asking me to do something.”
A clever manager would go away and come back in 10 minutes with twice as much “urgent” work as previously and no pretence, but it would be funny for those 10 minutes.
Or say “ok, you got me there. But, two things can be true and I’m here to listen if you have something you want to talk about”