From your perspective...internal split personality aka 1. yourself as the one observing the observer (boss); 2. yourself playing the decoy as you want to be observed; 3. using the decoy as a mirror showing what the observer observes beforehand and how he will react to it.

The observer is looking for out of ordinary behavior, hence him observing. What the decoy is used for is to manipulate the observer by suggesting him ordinary, out of ordinary in your favor, and out of ordinary as bait in his favor to then steer into your favor. Like you pretending to make the mistake he anticipates, just to imbalance him by doing something he didn't anticipate and which skews his view in your favor.

The more you do this, the more you gaslight him to question himself, which then opens him up for you to reassure him with however you want to be seen as.

From his perspective... he knows the ordinary work routine and looks for any deviation from it. Since he suspects foul play when observing, he likely uses bait to tempt the observed, since he doesn't want to waste his time observing without satisfying his suspicions.

His knowledge about the ordinary represents his weak point, which is where your decoy is set-up. He doesn't suspect the ordinary to be manipulated; instead he looks for you acting out of it aka doing something you wouldn't normally do.

In short...MEDIA (Latin medius; middle)...the middle in-between observer and observed represents the ordinary, the status quo of your work relationship (boss/employee); the shared foundation of your coexistence, the suggested habitation for intelligence operations...that's your battlefield; that's where baits and decoys are being set; while everyone wears a mask (public over private).