What a difference …
I have two people to compare and a job in fact …
I thought secretaries are just an addition to a department, they do nothing except filling up the EGO of some managers and minor department administration here and there …
My old job, our secretary will go away for months and you notice nothing is changed, minor if noticed inconvenience. We used to do everything and hand it to her for some signature needed here and there and she will ask you to do it yourself. Take the paper and go from department to another and I used to do that because I hated the office boy and didn’t deal with him. So basically we benefited nothing from her and I thought this was the normal way … she would say I can’t do this, my eyes, my hands, my back, my throat ….
And then I came here and got introduced to our secretary’s department, if she is gone, everything gets harder. Because I am used to the old system, in the beginning, I did everything and handed to her and she would say you don’t have to do that, I’ll do it and no matter how busy she is she will answer my questions and run over to me to make sure everything is finalized. If some papers are missing and I tell her, just tell me where the folder is and I’ll go looking for it, she doesn’t. She has this incredible memory, I will ask her I forgot did we send this, she will say yes we did or the status of it. I would have killed some people if I were her because of the amount of work they give her or how the keep nagging!!! They drive me crazy just be hearing them talk … ‘Allah ye3enha’
It is really hard to be a secretary for some people not ALL … my old one used to take one hour break everyday to go walk around the building for exercise and our new secretary doesn’t even find the time to eat!!!!
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