December 2009
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October 2009
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Can I help you...wait, what?!
Being a receptionist is just another part of the daily grind. If you saw my previous post, you have an idea of how I feel about customer service, and this part of the job is particularly painful for me.
The really crazy ones call in the morning. I should know better than to answer the phone before 10:30am, but sometimes I am so out of it that I forget and pick it up anyway, only to find myself...
Your particular style of Office Management has a lot to do with where you cut your interoffice teeth.
Thanks to an old coworker from the copy shop for sending this one. Lucky for her, she was bright enough to become a copy shop drop-out about a week after orientation. Interestingly enough, guess who is NOT an Office Manager now?
Food for thought.
Kitchen Rules, #1
The first thing any Office Manager needs to learn is that the kitchen is part of the office, and Dishwasher is just one of the many sub-titles that won’t fit on your business card.
If your kitchen sink doesn’t have a garbage disposal, this will complicate matters, and you will find yourself having to find a slew of creative ways to say, “Don’t clog up the sink, fuckers.”