Happy Administrative Professionals Day! We hope that your employers are celebrating this holiest of holidays, and that they had enough tact not to get you a “Happy Secretary’s Day” card. The staff of the L.A. Downtown News chipped in with some horror stories of their own. It just goes to show you that no one ever gets over the pain and horror of their first assistant job. Here’s one of our faves, from staff writer Anna Scott:

When D (names and details have been changed to protect the unsuspecting) hired me as his assistant, I was not long out of college, quickly going broke as a writer for Valley Scene Magazine. A gig assisting a sometime screenwriter-director-producer with a stake in his family’s widget production business seemed like just the thing to tide me over to greener pastures.

A year later, I was up to my ears in widgets. I spent my days filing widget-related documents, juggling phone messages from widget dealers, fetching widget-making supplies from Office Depot. This was not something I excelled at. I am a slob and a packrat, not a person anybody should trust to simplify his life.

D should have fired me. However, being the very nice man he was, one day he plopped two big, hardcover books down on my paper-strewn desk: The Administrative Assistant’s and Secretary’s Handbook and Merriam-Webster’s Secretarial Handbook (Third Edition).

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Source: horror stories from the staff of the l.a. downtown news

                        

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