What manager are you?
To digress first: this morning I broke the photocopier. The good thing about working in such a huge place is that your accountablity is directly proportionate to who was around to see you do it. Not only did no one see me but I made a big deal out of being the one to report it to support services so it actually looked like I cared.
Manager types:
The 'but why aren't you psychic' manager:
When you lean around the corner of your desk and yell at my desk 'did you print out the email from Glen this morning?' you mean 'Did you print out the email that Glen sent me yesterday which I haven't yet emailed to you so you can print it out?'
This manager is related to the 'time speeds up when i get you to do something it could have taken me half the time to do myself' manager:
Part of my job description is to print out the emails that my boss flags to be printed in his inbox. This means that at regular intervals throughout the day I have to go into my boss's inbox and print out and sort emails and then place them on his desk in front of him so he can yell at me when he can't find them. It has never been brought to his attention that the time it takes to actually flag the email matches exactly the time it takes to press the 'print' icon on his screen.
The AC also has this problem although it is labelled 'I've never had a secretary before so i can't distinguish between work I should do myself and work I should get her to do' syndrome:
Dear AC: if you want me to replace a date throughout an entire document, you really don't need to sit down with me and go through the entire document changing the date by hand in front of me. I promise I won't forget the date every time I turn the page. This is one of the skills I have acquired through the years of working as a senior secretary at partner level. But if it makes you feel important, I will tolerate it. Especially as you are a cute man who is perched on my desk.
The '9 different types of urgent' manager:
As a grown woman who is able to walk and talk at the same time, I pride myself on the skills I have acquired through the years. However, I am still stumped when you come out of your office to tell me to print something urgently and then go back in your office and close the door to have a confidential meeting. Should I print it out and burst in and hand you the document? Is it that kind of urgent? Or is it more the urgent stylings of printing it out to have it waiting on the desk when you storm out of your office on your way to a meeting you haven't scheduled in your calendar so I can't tell people where you are when they ask? Or is the kind of urgent that I print out, you storm out of your office and disappear for two hours so I leave the document on your desk and then you return, mess up your desk and an hour later yell at me because I haven't yet printed out that urgent document?
How doth you urgent me? Let me count the ways.....
Manager types:
The 'but why aren't you psychic' manager:
When you lean around the corner of your desk and yell at my desk 'did you print out the email from Glen this morning?' you mean 'Did you print out the email that Glen sent me yesterday which I haven't yet emailed to you so you can print it out?'
This manager is related to the 'time speeds up when i get you to do something it could have taken me half the time to do myself' manager:
Part of my job description is to print out the emails that my boss flags to be printed in his inbox. This means that at regular intervals throughout the day I have to go into my boss's inbox and print out and sort emails and then place them on his desk in front of him so he can yell at me when he can't find them. It has never been brought to his attention that the time it takes to actually flag the email matches exactly the time it takes to press the 'print' icon on his screen.
The AC also has this problem although it is labelled 'I've never had a secretary before so i can't distinguish between work I should do myself and work I should get her to do' syndrome:
Dear AC: if you want me to replace a date throughout an entire document, you really don't need to sit down with me and go through the entire document changing the date by hand in front of me. I promise I won't forget the date every time I turn the page. This is one of the skills I have acquired through the years of working as a senior secretary at partner level. But if it makes you feel important, I will tolerate it. Especially as you are a cute man who is perched on my desk.
The '9 different types of urgent' manager:
As a grown woman who is able to walk and talk at the same time, I pride myself on the skills I have acquired through the years. However, I am still stumped when you come out of your office to tell me to print something urgently and then go back in your office and close the door to have a confidential meeting. Should I print it out and burst in and hand you the document? Is it that kind of urgent? Or is it more the urgent stylings of printing it out to have it waiting on the desk when you storm out of your office on your way to a meeting you haven't scheduled in your calendar so I can't tell people where you are when they ask? Or is the kind of urgent that I print out, you storm out of your office and disappear for two hours so I leave the document on your desk and then you return, mess up your desk and an hour later yell at me because I haven't yet printed out that urgent document?
How doth you urgent me? Let me count the ways.....
posted by belle de dayjob at 2:26 am
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