I want you to imagine someone of importance in your country. Whether a politician, a celebrity, a major personality, just imagine this person coming to your office.
Imagine this person coming, unexpected, to your work place, asking to speak to you or to a particular person who is ‘at lunch’.
The receptionist might not know the importance of the person in front of them, or might. She might think that the visitor should wait. She might try to call the lunch breaker. But she can not get in touch with the lunch breaker. The visitor may wait a few minutes. Maybe their identity is revealed. Maybe not. But after a few minutes, the visitor leaves.
When the lunch breaker finally returns and is informed who had arrived, and who has now gone….?
Working for a Boss From Hell, one understands how such a wage slave would get lost for that precious lunch break. But in other circumstances, for example, where the person in the office is the only person in the office, to put themselves beyond contact is more than ridiculous, is almost fatal.
Could you imagine learning that a V.I.P came to YOUR work place and you were at lunch and no one told you? Could you image that by the time you returned from your lunch break, that V.I.P. is gone. Gone with no way to contact. Gone, perhaps forever.
Intelligent people often advise their secretary or receptionist where they will be. In this way, they can be contacted and not miss an opportunity.
Not very intelligent people, controlled by their bellies, wander off and return to the office if/when, and miss the chance that may not come again.
You can’t know, for a fact, that a person you truly want to see would never come to your office. So placing yourself not totally beyond connection is the wisest move.
I wish I had a camera to see the face of that lunch breaker on return, to learn that such a celebrity had arrived and departed while they were stuffing their face.
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Yes, that's a lost opportunity indeed. However, that person shOuld also consider, that no one knows that he /she is coming. That's how it should be.
Because if the celebrity could have informed that he/she will be coming, then for sure that employee will wait even if it means forgoing of his/her lunch and do it once the given time to arrive has lapsed and no one came.
And in this case, the person who was asked as to where the employee is should be responsible enough, to call the said employee if it is a V.I.P who has come to speak with him/her.
In many cases, one doesn't know that a special visitor is coming. No one knew Barack Obama would want to go to the Bob Marley museum. It wasn't until he had landed, checked into the hotel, that the calls were made and those who were there were there, and those who weren't were not.
Rem. He couldn't advertise where he was going too far in advance for security reasons.