Message #74789

[AngelM]

I can certainly relate to the communication element of your post!  My boss is exactly the same.  He will instruct clients and 3rd parties to ring me to schedule meetings - they call expecting me to have an indepth knowledge of their query - and I have never heard of them!  A particular favourite will be arranging meetings with another PA's boss - and wondering why it has not miraculously found its way into his diary! Well that would be because neither myself nor the diary are psychic and the other PA will (rightly) presume I have been informed!

Another favourite will be agreeing to a meeting via email - forgetting to copy me in and then again wondering why said meeting hasn't been posted in the diary!  Textbook busy boss behaviour! 

Regarding the office, I agree with you that he is feeling resentful at leaving his old office and travelling further to work.  Hopefully in time he will realise he has to be a grown up and if he wants the new role then he has to take the new office.  We have had a refurb at our offices recently and the promise of shiny new desks has certainly helped sugar the pill of those reluctant to move.  Could you ask him if he wants to put his stamp on the place? Maybe something to make him feel more at home?