Did I do something?

An hour before I left work today, my boss instant messages me, "Everything Ok?"

As a parent, and people manager, I know that often I ask questions I already know the answer to, and so does my boss.

Flashing through my head in the seconds before I respond with a resounding "Yup!" I am thinking, did I do something that got escalated to my boss? I said no to his boss yesterday, do they think I'm broken because I don't want to be treated "like a girl"? Did my staff complain about me? What's his angle?

He then proceeded to give me a pep talk on being positive and engaging, because as he puts it, "it's my thing."

He says that there is no cause for this pep talk, nothing triggered it. So it was either completely random and out of left field, or he was lying to me. Regardless, I'm now left pondering WTF.

I have coworkers that call me Pollyanna and Mrs. Smiley. I have had a huge focus on appreciation and recognition within my team, and outside of it, and then he throws this at my feet?

Um, ok.

I suppose context to this situation is 6 months ago we were told that our jobs would be eliminated in 2 years, except my role and my teams role is kind of up in the air as far as how much we are impacted, which means we are the last men and women standing and have to keep being productive and entertaining until the last person gets kicked out the door.  But I just saw the dude on Friday and he is traveling today and generally doesn't message me when he's traveling unless he needs something.

Ugh, I must have done something. I hate reading between the lines, it's so much easier when they just spell it out for you. Life of a cubicle dweller I suppose.