dragonlady7

Yesterday my boss yelled directly into my ear. he wasn't yelling at me. he had decided while talking to me that the name of one of our modules needed to be changed. i told him that the sitemap of our webpage was probably not the ideal place to make that change, since we'd just printed up 200 spec sheets that we're handing out at a trade show in three days with the old name, and if people come to the website from that spec sheet looking for the module and it's not there, they're going to think we're morons.
The boss went off and I heard him discussing the name of the module with our sales and support staff. They agreed that the name was misleading.
About an hour later, he came back to me. A little setting: I sit in the corner of a cubicle. There's an entryway, and a narrow cubicle; from the first narrow cubicle there's a narrow opening into a second narrow cubicle, and I'm in the corner formed by the wall between the first opening and the second opening. So, I'm in a very small corner of the second narrow little cubicle.
I sit in a desk chair with little arms. It's a little desk chair. My 150-pounds-overweight colleague barely fits into hers. She's the kind of overweight where the weight is concentrated in front, so it's not like her ass is that wide, either. I have a little room in my chair, but not a lot.
The boss came back, leaned both hands on the arm of my little chair, and leaned towards me, and literally shouted into my ear the name of the new module.
I leaned as far away as I could, actually hitting my head on my cubicle wall, my torso pressed against the other arm of my chair, and made a big show of writing down the new name. I couldn't sit up straight to reach my mouse or keyboard without physically pushing my boss away.
He routinely invades my personal space like this, though he doesn't usually lean into my face to shout at me. I really don't think he was annoyed with me, so he didn't do it on purpose.
He corners me all the time, and I don't know how to tell him to get the hell away from me without offending him. He doesn't do it on purpose. I'm sure he has different standards of physical closeness. But I don't get that close to anyone I'm not intimate with. I'm not a physical prude; I'll even touch total strangers if I have to. I sit on my friends and relatives all the time at the slightest provocation.
But I don't like being cornered unless it's some kinky game or snuggle time or something. I'm not claustrophobic, but...
I don't know. I'm debating whether I should casually arrange a number of obstacles to gently encourage my boss to stay a little bit back. Like, my garbage can could be moved a few centimeters, or the chair I often put my feet on could be pulled out a bit, and my backpack could be nonchalantly left so that the chair can't easily be moved. (That's another thing that annoys me. It's a broken chair, and I use it to put my feet up when I injure them, which I do mildly and frequently on my somewhat strenuous hike. I also use it to keep my purse on. The boss comes, pulls the chair out, and will turn it backwards and sit on it, putting his crotch right on my sweater or my purse if I haven't moved it for him. He seems to think I've put it there just so he can sit on it when he comes to check on me.
I need to get something more uncomfortable to put there. I thought a chair with a broken seat might do it, but I was apparently wrong.)
And it's especially gross when the boss corners me and stands over me when he's eating, because he doesn't stop talking when he's eating. I end up with spittle and crumbs on my arms and, if I look up, my face. UGH.
So.
I'm still feeling a bit ill, so I might tell him to keep his distance because I think I'm getting strep throat or tonsilitis. But he'll forget, and I'll have to tell him every time.
Sigh.
Ah well. The travails of being newly half-deaf... I should claim workman's comp.