Comments on: Guide to Care and Maintenance of Your Typical Secretary

By: red*

red* — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:13:29 +0000

LOVE this article. I’m a Secretary/Office Manager(yeah, thanks economy, I’m both.. ughhh). My BIGGEST pet peeve is when two people will have a conversation LITERALLY standing on either side of me, while I’m on the friggen PHONE! CANT HEARRR!!!! thanks for making this article, I needed to vent about this. lol….

-Red*

By: That Kind Of Girl

That Kind Of Girl — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:08:34 +0000

Oh my god, that pen non-story! That cracked me up! I listen to stuff like that all day.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:45:32 +0000

I work in a very small town with a lot of retirees. “Please don’t tell me your life story for the THIRD time this week!”
Please don’t take a vanilla statement I make as a sign that I’m interested in this conversation:

“Sir, do you you need a pen?”
“You know I have lots of pens at home; My daughter would always say,’Dad, why do you have so many pens?’”
Snorefest!

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:58:29 +0000

This is the best! I want to make a neon sign out of, “We may be humans with kind of lame jobs, but we are humans” and hang it above my desk.

By: TKOG Who goes out with someone from Craigslist

TKOG Who goes out with someone from Craigslist — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:01:52 +0000

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By: Edrie

Edrie — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 04:19:04 +0000

You forgot my fav: Don’t complain to me about the size of your bonus. Secretaries rarely get bonuses, and your bonus-no matter how meager you think it is, is still bigger than zero.