Our BM invited the department and their SOs out to his log cabin in the country for supper last night. I was already on vacation when the invitation was emailed but a colleague forwarded it. The function was catered and I understand that it was not at our boss' expense: he was treating us since the department met its budgetary target for this quarter. Whatever the reason, it was nice to get together and meet some of the wives and have a good feed, too. John is a pretty low key type guy so I knew we wouldn't have to "dress up". I think the "manager" in his title means that he manages to keep the president from overburdening and bothering us with profit and loss details; i.e, administrative BS.