Admin Assistant Problems

[adminawfulness]

501

When people assume that you’re not intelligent or talented because you “just answer the phones”

[adminawfulness]

500

Caller: “I want to talk to that kid... I have no idea what his name is. He’s young. Gimme him.”

[adminawfulness]

499

When people use the scanner behind your desk and can’t figure it out... the directions are right there, people! Read!

[adminawfulness]

498

When other admins COULD take phones for you for half an hour so you can train someone, but they “just don’t feel like it”

[adminawfulness]

497

When a guy who calls often feels the need to tell you his full name, company, job title, and the address of the company EVERY time he calls in

[adminawfulness]

496

When you’re supposed to have a meeting with a VP and get someone to cover phones for you, but your terrible admin “friends” in other offices refuse...

(But then the VP calls and yells at them, so it’s ok)

[adminawfulness]

495

When you tell a caller that someone is working remotely and is not in the office, so the caller should try the employee's cell phone... and he keeps calling back into the office and asking for the same person

[adminawfulness]

494

Me: "He's unavailable right now. Would you like his voicemail?"

Salesperson: "Oh, actually, what would be a good time to reach him?"

What I Wish I Could Say: "Never."

[adminawfulness]

493

Being able to recognize footsteps so you know who's coming down the hallway to your desk... and sighing if it's someone you don't want to see (which is, well, actually pretty much everyone)

[adminawfulness]

492

Counting down the minutes until lunch time

[adminawfulness]

491

When somebody ships ice cream in dry ice to the president, and he wants you to deal with the dry ice

Lol, no, I did not sign up for that.

[adminawfulness]

490

Caller: "He's always in a meeting, isn't he? Well @#*$& that. I think you're just not putting me through to him."

[adminawfulness]

489

Having to squeeze past people in the hallway akwardly, because the building has no storage space and the hallways are lined with filing boxes

[adminawfulness]

488

When people forget their building key cards and you have to let them in

[adminawfulness]

487

When the president has an exorbitant salary, but "can't afford" to pay his assistants a decent wage

[adminawfulness]

486

When the company decides to move to an open office plan to squeeze more people in, because they're too cheap to look for a new building

[adminawfulness]

485

Me: "He's away from his desk. Would you like his voicemail?"

Caller: "I don't think voicemail will help. Can you help? Can you be helpful and walk around and find him?"

Hahahahaha! Hahahahaha! Let me think about that... NO!