to think my boss's boss might say hello to me

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when he comes into the office? surely it's not much to ask...

We had a senior manager like this once.

It really irritated.

Amazing how polite she became when she needed some assistance.

Make a big point of saying hello to them. they might just be people shy either that or it will shame them into acknowledging you.

Mine wasn't shy, she was just rude.

Although a colleague did imply that she was just "focussed" on what she needed to do.

But how difficult is it to just say hello as you walk through an office on your way to another office??

ignore them as well because you are busy

YANBU.

Aww - my boss is the big boss and I know he finds it difficult to do the chat thing with people - he's really introverted and well aware that people either think he's either there to get rid of people/make changes no-one will like. But he's lovely!

Sticking up for boss's bosses everywhere!

Very rude. The Board and senior managers in my firm would never act that way - after all it's the work of the ground staff that keep the business running every day!

Dotty - but he can manage a simple hello, surely?

Mind you, I chat to everyone all the time, so people are probably thinking I do bugger all all day...

Yes, he could and he does mostly, but he's 20 years older than most of the staff and with a posh voice and feels really self conscious! Every now and then I drag him to the pub on staff leaving dos and subject him to Socialising - but it's tricky..!

I got seconded to another dept once and spoke to my bosses boss. It was about work and he came to see me. Later my boss came to see me and bollocked me for being 'unprofesional' and if I wanted to speak to him (bosses boss) I should tell her (boss) and she would pass it on. It dawned on me that the whole dept was like that. They were nutters.

God that's insane - would hate to work in a place with stupid hierarchy crap.

teakettle, that's ridiculous!

No problems with the top boss, the other bosses, board members, JPs, MPs etc etc, just the one woman, on several occasions.

She was different after we'd done a piece of work together, but it shouldn't make a difference.

I used to know a boss like that rebel. (who quite often had to visit one of the offices in the potteries . . . . could it be?)

It's worse when your own supervisor won't say morning, in my last place of work one of the supervisors blanked everyone every day, it really didn't go down well. The fact that we all detested him anyway just made it worse, although should he ever have bothered to say hello I wouldn't have been returning it.