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I even remember a boss apologizing to a male employee who brought him coffee because his female counterpart was not at her desk at the moment of the request. FML #secretaries
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I have a bachelor's degree from UC Santa Cruz. One of the faculty members in the room also matriculated at UCSC. He turned to the contact and said, in the iciest tone possible, "I don't recall attending secretarial school." I could have kissed him.
It took the contact a few seconds to figure it out. #secretaries
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I used to get that a lot in tech support. "Listen young lady, this is very important, I have a COLLEGE DEGREE and you will fix my computer right now!" "Oh, really? I have a master's. Let's talk." #secretaries
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My mother works for a U.S. law firm and is now in their UK office, and she has definitely talked about how much more complicated it is to fire someone there, and the long process needed to make someone "redundant", etc. #secretaries
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I wish that was a fake story. #secretaries
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Worst thing he ever asked me to do? Lie to his wife about the woman he had been having an affair with for 9 years. Worst experience: having to take a cab to the airport to give the "other woman" her passport when she'd left it in his bag from their last trip together. AWKWARD and humiliating. #secretaries
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Former Bosses: Don't put people in the middle of your crap. You're having an affair. If you can't keep them all straight, you're obviously not meant to have multiple partners at the same time. Survival of the fittest. #secretaries
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So you know who ends up picking up all the slack, don't you? If you guessed the Terribly Important Consultants, well, you'd be wrong. #secretaries
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Having been applying for many, many admin jobs lately, these comments make me more than a little nervous! The boss-assistant relationship is a little odd, to say the least. #secretaries
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Everyone here has at least a dozen stories like that. #secretaries
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(I should mention my boss is my dad) #secretaries
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I guess it's pretty equal since he buys ME christmas presents, and starbucks everyday and you know... gave me life. #secretaries
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Reminds me of a story my uncle tells: he worked for a gigantic company located on a gigantic campus. A million years ago, he needed something from someone on the other side of the campus. Guy B says that he'll drop it in the mail, next day delivery. My uncle says, don't be ridiculous. Just bring it over. Guy B brings it over, and then tells him that he earns $50 an hour, and it took him half an hour to walk here, and will take him half an hour to walk back, making the cost of this trip $50. If he had sent it next day, it would have been $15. My uncle felt like an ass. #secretaries
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I've been asked to do laundry on numerous occasions. #secretaries
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He now works for another company in the same industry. #secretaries
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Being a director in my company requires a lot of travel to New York. It also occasionally requires long hours for directors or other Importants, so it's feasible that a guy with an original family that lives way out in the suburbs to have an apartment downtown or stay in a hotel a few nights a week. #secretaries
11/03/09
For reasons unknown, there is a motorized wheelchair in our building. I spent most of that day listening to this boy rumble up and down the hallways in the wheelchair smashing into doors and destroying the walls as he scraped by.
I've also spent countless hours working on the company owner's mother-in-law's PC. I always leave work by 3:30 so it's not too bad. #secretaries
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Who hasn't uttered those words? #secretaries