Thursday, April 24, 2008
At the Watercooler
Yesterday was Administrative Professionals Day. I got my secretary a card with a painting of sailboats on the front and a blank inside from a box that I bought when I was in undergrad. And also a check. I figured that was better than flowers, which generally die, or candy, which generally gets eaten by someone other than the secretary and quite frequently by the gifter him- or herself. She seemed to like it. Actually, she said she "felt weird" about it because she has only been working for me for a few weeks. I told her to view it as reparations for my future crimes.
Actually, I think she may have earned it already, though. Work has been crazy busy and I've asked her to create more redline documents than I had ever previously dreamed possible. I frequently have to ask other people to do things like that that are probably quite simple but I have no idea how to do. The other day I asked someone to take a document off of a flash drive for me. I didn't realize that all you really have to do is plug it into your computer. I also frequently have to ask people to format documents for me. As far as I'm concerned, bullet points arise from some freaky voodoo magic.
Yesterday was Administrative Professionals Day. I got my secretary a card with a painting of sailboats on the front and a blank inside from a box that I bought when I was in undergrad. And also a check. I figured that was better than flowers, which generally die, or candy, which generally gets eaten by someone other than the secretary and quite frequently by the gifter him- or herself. She seemed to like it. Actually, she said she "felt weird" about it because she has only been working for me for a few weeks. I told her to view it as reparations for my future crimes.
Actually, I think she may have earned it already, though. Work has been crazy busy and I've asked her to create more redline documents than I had ever previously dreamed possible. I frequently have to ask other people to do things like that that are probably quite simple but I have no idea how to do. The other day I asked someone to take a document off of a flash drive for me. I didn't realize that all you really have to do is plug it into your computer. I also frequently have to ask people to format documents for me. As far as I'm concerned, bullet points arise from some freaky voodoo magic.
