speak softly to me

my boss speaks really softly. really really softly. he's one of those nice, intelligent and soft-spoken guys. he probably never loses his temper.

anyway, my point is, he speaks sooo softly that every single person in the office never gets what he says, not the entire sentence anyway. we ALWAYS guess what he's saying. everyone of us usually only manages to catch two words out of his sentences and we have to then guess and figure out what the whole sentence is.

it's not that we don't ask him to repeat or like me, i keep saying "sorry?" ... "sorry??" that we end up looking pretty silly or deaf.

it's funny really. i'll go down and talk to one of the marketing guys, and he'll be like, "i'll send him an email". i'll ask, "why not just go ask him? he's upstairs..." and he'll go, "nope. i won't know what his reply is anyway..." hehe. it's funny.

the layout in the office is such that, i actually sit beside my boss, separated by a partition, and two other writers sit across the floor from us. when we THINK that our boss called one of us [we younger ones are always on our headphones with music blasting], we'll all look up and then STRAIN to hear what he's actually saying, or whom he's speaking to. usually, it's to me. but eventhough i sit BESIDE him, i've to actually stand up, lean over the partition and really really concentrate on his words.

such a rare, soft-spoken guy.