Because of how well received the first one was, here is another tale from my company…

So, on Tuesday, my department hired a new part-time secretary to help us do our jobs. The current Executive Assistant for the company was more than a little bit peeved at that fact, when she found out (you might remember the new secretary from my first company post — but just in case you don’t here it is.), she became even more passive agressive than she ordinarily is. She wouldn’t talk to the new woman, and when she needed to, she’d inform us that “we needed to tell her X or Y.”

Well, today, the senior staff is away at a secret off-site location (that was revealed yesterday during staff meeting) while the rest of the staff is here at the office, except for a few notable exceptions, one of whom is “the new secretary” (TNS for short). Now, the EA had been told that TNS would be out of the office today with her husband, who had just had some small surgery.

So, at lunch, the EA announced that she needed to bring something over to the CEO after 1pm. Quickly, I called my boss at the “super-secret-off-site-location” letting him know that she was on her way. He thanked me and told me he would. Thirty minutes later, she returned, fuming. I mean, literally, she broke the front door (yes, there really were doors hurt in the telling of this story). She came back in “well, I brought him the stuff” (it helps if you imagine her saying this in the thickest Long Island accent you can imagine) “and the new chick was theah.” I swear to you, I dove for cover hoping that she wouldn’t ask me if I knew the woman was going to be there.

Again, I ask the question, do I work with adults or children?