Is the boss fooling around?

[Northland]

Note: The company has been owned by 3 direct generations of the same family. I started there as a teen part time working for the current boss' dad......Just to clarify things

Regardless of that, it is still not your business. Do your job, ignore the gossip and if it's too much stress for you, start a search to go elsewhere for employment.

 

[Darkriff]

I'm gonna have to agree with everyone else, you can feel sorry for his family all you want but it won't change anything, it happens more frequently than you may think. No use in letting it affect your life.

 

[Pitbull]

I would:

1. Stop worrying about what my boss does in his/her free time. It's no one's business if he is fucking someone else at work.

2. Stop gossiping with others at work (if they are gossiping with you, they will gossip ABOUT you).

3. Continue to be the best employee ever.

In that order.

Great Answer!

But I might just put your #3 at #1

Continue to be the best employee ever.

And the best employee ever would not gossip or be concerned about what someone was doing outside of work in their personal life.

I would add - stay as far away from this as possible.
If there is something going on, when the shit hits the fan, you don't want to get splattered.

 

[Lex]

Well, that is why I put it third. In my mind, you have to stop doing #1 and #2 to be the best employee ever. I have found that performance can overcome attitude/like-dislike in a lot of situations.

On the other end, if I can't use my position and power to fuck people, what the fuck has happened the world?!?

(kidding)


(mostly)

 

[Sassy]

Great Answer!

But I might just put your #3 at #1

Continue to be the best employee ever.

And the best employee ever would not gossip or be concerned about what someone was doing outside of work in their personal life.

I would add - stay as far away from this as possible.
If there is something going on, when the shit hits the fan, you don't want to get splattered.

PB and Lex expressed it well. I agree with PB. Your first concern should be your performance as an employee. Stay out of the office gossip.

 

[Florida Boy]

You are not in a situation. No. Do I think something is going on? Yes.

 

[beachbum1971]

I completely understand how you feel because I there is a similar situation at my work. While it's tempting to gossip, AND if the shoe were on the other foot and my spouse was up to something I would want to know, BUT my job is what protects my family with the income and benefits. My job is not worth risking out of a sense of morality that I would impose on someone else.
The wife will figure it out or continue to put blinders on. That's up to her, but it sounds like if she hasn't figured it out, she probably doesn't really want to.

 

[TheRob]

who cares what your boss is doing, if he isn't doing it to you

 

[sexplease]

first of all, MYOB
and secondly, IF they do, the wives don't have the same plumbing (and visa-versa) so trying to compete for sex is futile.
ya wouldn't expect an clam to taste like a banana, would ya?

 

[TheRob]

first of all, MYOB
and secondly, IF they do, the wives don't have the same plumbing (and visa-versa) so trying to compete for sex is futile.
ya wouldn't expect an clam to taste like a banana, would ya?

I was told everything tastes like chicken