Things Only a Corporate Nanny Can Get Away With.

If the Annual Reports come in, and the box is very heavy and you don't feel like moving it, it is probably not good form, professionally speaking, to put the large box on your desk so that when Little Boss returns from lunch he asks, "What's that?". You say, "The Annual Reports just came in, but that box is very heavy. I'm going to ask Big Boss to move it when he gets back." Because then Little Boss will say, "I can move it for you." Now you can say, "I don't know about that; it's pretty heavy." Because then Little Boss will almost certainly snap, "I said I could handle it. Where do you want it?"

Like I said, probably not very professional, but highly effective.

And if you go into your boss's office with two new prospective deals that arrived that morning via messenger, it is probably not appropriate, upon seeing the sheer chaos of his desk that is so littered with half-foot stacks of paper that you can no longer tell what color the wood underneath is, to remark, "Jesus!", especially if your boss in Jewish, and the Pope just died (seems especially innapropriate).

But if your boss replies, "Hey, it was clean at the begining of the week, I've been busy. It'll get better.", you can assume that you have landed in the exactly right job for you and you should not take stupid risks to jeopardize being fired from said job. Like excessive blogging on company time.