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05-03-2015 02:06 PM |
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Originally Posted by fioreuk
(Post 12276574)
Office PA's who are up their own ar$e$!
You're a secretary....
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Hmmm the best ones are far from that, the worse ones I would agree with. Had a few PAs working for me. The three best ones have all gone on to far better careers one is Head of Communications for a major company. One a senior Project Manager, the third is working as a sub contractor on Email installations. All three were brillant PAs all suffered from one thing a lack of self confidence once you got past that and helped develop the confidence there was no way they were going to remain PAs. All three still keep in contact and remain close friends.
The ones to avoid at all costs are those that use the position of their boss to try and influence others. Also be prepared to listen my favourite story on that is a Director who was an excellent guy to work with but had a few issues on management, he threw his toys out of the pram to his PA over the phone after a flight cancellation told her to get him a flight to Bristol airport 20 minutes latter we had phone call in taxi in Paris could not be done best to fly to Heathrow get train to Bristol. Foolishly he decided he knew better and said just get me on any flight to Bristol put phone down, by the time we were at airport had phone call back saying sorted but he would need to change flights be better to go to Heathrow. That point we left him to go to a different terminal......he got there eventually via Jersey and an 8 journey as he had to wait at Jersey and the flight to Jersey from Paris was a 3 hour wait.
I was told the story from the other side she tried to tell him three times he was not having any of it and eventually she said ok Bristol it was....at Jersey he phoned her up and had a real go at her and all she said was I tried not once not twice but three times you thought you knew better. You might be a top engineer which he was but you are not a PA and put phone down on him. Next morning he arrived with a box of chocolates apoligised, and told her she ever let him do that again he would sack her. They had great working relationship afterwards.
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