ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS ROLL-CALL

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TAKE YOUR SHIRT OFF TWIST IT ROUND YOUR HAND SPIN IT LIKE A HELICOPTER

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

um, and then what?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

file something and answer one phone?

― carly (carly), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:48 (twenty years ago)

JUST KEEPING DOING IT

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

EVENTUALLY YOU WILL FLY AWAY FROM YOUR TERRIBLE TERRIBLE JOB

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

i used to be an AA at the DSS and i wasn't even allowed to answer one phone.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Grimly, i've been there. if you want a job where you are patronised daily, then that’s the job.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

I'm taking my THIRD coffee break in 105 minutes. I just don't give a fuck.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

HUK-L ARE YOU AN "ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT"? I thought you were more "editorial"?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

I was a clerical assistant now i'm a clerical officer.

― leigh (leigh), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

i used to be an AA at the DSS and i wasn't even allowed to answer one phone.

I used to be one at the ES. I wish they'd never let me answer the phone.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

Editorial Assitant, but my duties are mostly administrative.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

I used to have to tell them when I was going to the bathroom so that they could answer the phones in my absence. Like a third grader with a hall pass.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

i was an information assistant.

but then i got high

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 2 September 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

here!

― ai lien (kold_krush), Friday, 2 September 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

i sat opposite an AO (one grade up, for the uninitiated) who had a collection of coloured paperclips.

i used to take one paperclip every day, straighten it out, put it in a transit envelope and send it to him in the internal mail along with a message saying: "THE MANGLER STRIKES AGAIN".

he never worked out who was doing it.

christ, i hated that job.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 2 September 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

i used to take one paperclip every day, straighten it out, put it in a transit envelope and send it to him in the internal mail along with a message saying: "THE MANGLER STRIKES AGAIN".

Oh, that's RICH!

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 2 September 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

I was an AA in the Benefits Agency and then in the Department of Health, where they promoted me to AO!

― MÃ¥dchen (Madchen), Saturday, 3 September 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

I was also an AA in the Benefits Agency! Glasgow ILXors be having crap jobs!

My current (thankfully soon to be ex-) position used to have the glorious title of "Administrative Specialist" before I got myself promoted so that I didn't have to suffer the indignity of having to put such a twatty title on my correspondence.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 3 September 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

I was an AA for a company that's sole purpose was to provide "job search support and assistance" for laid off executives. We acted like off-site secretaries for angry, displaced rich people all over the country, so they could quickly find new and wonderful high paying jobs.

I was placed there through a temp agency. I worked there for a year and a half.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 3 September 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

You do know you can leave temp jobs, right?

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 3 September 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

You can, in fact, leave any type of job.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 3 September 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

Well, yes, you can, but pullapartgirl seems quite irked that the agency had placed her somewhere she didn't like. The good thing about temping = flexibility and the lack of notice required to go "this is shit, get me something else please".

But there's a thread about that elsewhere.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 3 September 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

(btw that wasn't meant to sound bitchy, I was just being encouraging re: quitting crappy jobs)

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 3 September 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I didn't take it as bitchy, but I *was* being a bit bitchy so I thought I'd better qualify what I meant.

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 3 September 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

here

but I will be a lawyer soon!

: /

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 3 September 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

I take a two hour lunch

and spend two hours on the internet each day

and they still seem to be impressed

also, free meals!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 3 September 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

Hi! It's a temp thing. I don't actually know what my job titiel is or if I actually have one. It's the least stressful job in the world though so despite the shit pay it'll do for as long as they need me.

― Crackity (Crackity Jones), Sunday, 4 September 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

i think the advantage of temp job vs non-temp is that when you do leave you don't need to give a notice period

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 4 September 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

I used to call and ask to be moved about once a week, but they never did it. I eventually quit to go wait tables so everything is cool now.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 4 September 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

I work for a temp agency, although not in a dealing-with-the-temps-myself job. I know, though, that if a temp phones us up, though, and says "I don't like the job you've given me, is there anything better", they'd have to either have a very good reason or be a very good temp to get offered any work by us again.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 4 September 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

ALL THE PENS YOU CAN EAT

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 8 September 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I'm a Clerical Assistant (Resources). The brackets increase my sense of worth by at least .001%.

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 8 September 2005 11:19 (twenty years ago)

make copies. remove one staple.

― carly (carly), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

Yesterday I wrote a report about PODCASTING and how my company could utilize it to make money (note: we can't).

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 September 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

I used to be an executive assistant! I think many of you remember my thread about my old workplace. Thankfully I am no longer an admin.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

but we miss those old millenium stories!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Alas I'm not even in the same industry anymore. I am dead to those people anyway, the best I got is that a rumor apparently tore through the office April/May of this year that I had become a prostitute on the basis of handing a former coworker an advertisement for Agent Provocateur (they sent out a bunch of basically ads personalized with your email on them (???) during some promotion they had if you bought something, so I had a couple), which was found on her desk.

So, yeah, finding an ad for a totally reputable lingerie store = Ally is now a HOOKER. The mind melts.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Did they also feel you dressed provocatively in clothing that revealed far too much ankle?

People need to not be Amish about everything.

― Laura H. (laurah), Thursday, 8 September 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

That's funny - some women I used to work with went around telling people I was a "witch" or Satanist or something.

― xanux (dymaxia), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

Did they also feel you dressed provocatively in clothing that revealed far too much ankle?

what, do you work for Osama bin Laden & Associates or something?!? :-)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 8 September 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

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