Bad News

The boss has nothing but total respect for you

She says so with a smile even a hand on your shoulder

She has never not cherished your commitment

Your infectious energy offered as devotion to her

Really let’s be honest not the corporation itself

The good boss who talks with you and understands

When you’re having a day or someone you love

Is in a particular way that simply interferes so

Long as it’s not long-term or utterly sapping

Since and you know this without any ambiguity

Our firm is not a charity nor a slave-driving enterprise

But like any normal concern in the business of business

We seek solely to make a profit while giving
Generously to the many groups dedicated to the less

Lucky we certainly cannot abide employees who fail

In separating the personal from the professional

Which HR views as a form of extreme selfishness

As many others depend on that one employee

To fit perfectly into the machinery of commerce

Or like any system with gears and sprockets

One dubious part slows the whole operation

And puts a burden on the others not to mention

On the boss who only wants to keep smiling
With her hand on your shoulder when you tell her
How it happened that you’ll miss the deadline
Even though you’re deeply sorry to bear the bad
News at the most inopportune time but sadly
And sorry to say your kid got run over

And you’re likely to need at least a day or two