You think having two bosses would be horrible. In the workplace spoof masterpiece, Office Space, the main character is asked repeatedly for the “TPS Report” from multiple bosses. In today’s workplace where employees are matrixed to many different projects it is easy to have two, three or more people to whom you report. Usually they never communicate. These managers proceed on their projects with blinders on not knowing what the heck you’re doing on your other projects.
The fallacy of matrixed resources is that instead of maximizing their time it does the opposite. Since neither boss knows what the other bosses are assigning, they assign less work. Assume you are on three projects reporting to three different project managers. You won’t get 13 hours of work a week from each. You’ll get 6-8 hours of work from each manager for a whopping total of 18 – 24 hours of work. That leaves plenty of time for work-leisure activity.
As a Cube Monkey it is your duty to keep up this fallacy. When with a specific boss, act busy and make comments about the other projects. You want to give the appearance that you are up to your eyeballs in TPS Reports.
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