Message #4275

[breezyblnd]

I am so glad to see this topic on the board.  I have been with this company since 4/1/00 (temp to perm til 7/1/00).  Anywhere I have worked I have always had a notebook of what I called "whatever information".....names, numbers, duties, daily routine, where what is located.

 I came into my position as Exec. Sec. to VP/Operations with one page of job description and NOTHING else.  Thru the months I have developed my notebook.  There are 2 other Exec. Sec., 3 Administrative Assist. and we are support for each other.  Only thing is no one knows what anybody else does....this includes the Presidents Exec. Sec., she has not procedure, etc type book.  I have pushed for admin. meetings and while we have had a few they quickly fall to a b*t** session.  I have never seen the unprofessionalism that I am encountering at this company.

 We have one admin. assist. who has very people to support and has never gotten her arms around a project and taken it from start to completion, or has involved so many other people that it is not her work that gets it done.

I have made it a point to get the ofc. ext.# for each of us, home phone #, cell #, pager #, any way to contact...and put all the information on a business card and given it to each of us...never know when you might end up in the hospital and need to reach a co-worker to give them some advance notice of your whereabouts.

I also made it a point for the 3 of us Exec. Sec's to have each others computer system passwords since we are backup for each other and are called upon to find things in the system when someone is out.