I Don't Like It When The Owner Just Hangs Around

I don't like it when the owner just hangs around. Nothing against the owner--he's a nice guy and all--but he shouldn't just hang around. If he has something to do, that's one thing. But clearly: he doesn't have anything to do. He's just hanging around. It makes us all nervous. We don't work as well when he's here hanging around. It puts us on edge. There's irony in this and I wish the owner could see it. He thinks he's protecting his investment by being here but really he's sabotaging it--his loafing presence actually reduces the value of his own business. A simple solution would be reached if he had something to do. (Again, the problem is not so much his being here, but the fact of his merely hanging around.) He has the office in the back but it's small and uncomfortable and he can't see what's going on from back there. There aren't any windows. It's pretty obvious there's not much for him to do back there anyway--he gets the bulk of the office work done at home during non-business hours. So, rather than go home and do nothing, he hangs around here with nothing to do. Why he doesn't work from home during business hours and develop a complex hobby in all his free time is beyond me. Maybe this place is his hobby. Yeah, that must be it, this place is a hobby for him.

Painting by Francis Bacon.