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Cast of Characters: Work
May. 23rd, 2012 03:23 amSo I work in an office. There are people there. It sometimes helps to know who they are.
I am an administrative assistant to a smallish department in a tech company. My role is to handle whatever random tasks they throw at me.
Overlady:
Runs a lot of projects. Not shy about getting help, which means I am often answering to her. Not used to the idea of having a minion who will make her whims happen yet. Knows Outlook like the back of her hand. Backhands misbehaving email programs. Voted probably most likely to read this. :-P
Manager:
My actual manager, who I mostly see in passing due to either her immensely busy schedule or the new email server having eaten her life again.
The new email server:
For reasons of professionalism I am not going to name the product, but a bad migration ate the lives of many of the team, they want us to try the desktop client, and I know where those bastards keep their bugzilla.
Junior Researcher:
My Overlady has a neophyte. He likes fast computers, fast cars ("Don't worry, I have a radar gun." "I think I'll take one for the team and take the bus.") and San Francisco nightlife.
Grandmanager Miles:
My grandmanager is a short hyper dude who likes to brainstorm wild ideas. I am under strict orders to sensibility-check anything too weird that emanates from him before carrying it out. This was literally my first order from my manager.
Interns:
It is once again intern season. So far we just have the one, but there are more due any day.
I am an administrative assistant to a smallish department in a tech company. My role is to handle whatever random tasks they throw at me.
Overlady:
Runs a lot of projects. Not shy about getting help, which means I am often answering to her. Not used to the idea of having a minion who will make her whims happen yet. Knows Outlook like the back of her hand. Backhands misbehaving email programs. Voted probably most likely to read this. :-P
Manager:
My actual manager, who I mostly see in passing due to either her immensely busy schedule or the new email server having eaten her life again.
The new email server:
For reasons of professionalism I am not going to name the product, but a bad migration ate the lives of many of the team, they want us to try the desktop client, and I know where those bastards keep their bugzilla.
Junior Researcher:
My Overlady has a neophyte. He likes fast computers, fast cars ("Don't worry, I have a radar gun." "I think I'll take one for the team and take the bus.") and San Francisco nightlife.
Grandmanager Miles:
My grandmanager is a short hyper dude who likes to brainstorm wild ideas. I am under strict orders to sensibility-check anything too weird that emanates from him before carrying it out. This was literally my first order from my manager.
Interns:
It is once again intern season. So far we just have the one, but there are more due any day.
