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susans
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« on: April 17, 2006, 08:02:48 pm » |
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This was the poll on the home page last week (by the way, today is a holiday in the UK, so polls will change tomorrow). It appears filing is the job PAs and Admins like the least! I thought it would be fun to sound off here and vent a little what you choose and why.
For me personally was "other." For years I had to put together a weekly report with information pulled from SAP (a data program), download it to a .wks, upload it to excel, edit over 90% of the ifnormation out and then format it into a excel spreadsheet with some pretty complex formulas. Though it is one of the spreadsheet reports I am most proud of, it was NOT my favorite to do every week. This one report took a full day of time each week and just was my least favorite thing to do for many years.
Filing is up ther as well, but I found if I just filed what I need to fast it never was a problem. It was when I was busy with other projects and it piled up filing became a nightmare.
How you about you?
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burpatricia
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« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2006, 08:32:43 pm » |
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Susan,
I personally dislike the most is when we do our "mass mailings" for tradeshow season - about 5000 pieces of mail that I am the lucky one to stick the labels and stamps on - occassionally my boss will send it out - but then the fun begins - when the old addresses come back - I have to go in one by one into the database and edit / remove the name, etc........ drives me nutty!
I am fortunate though that tradeshow season runs - October - March for our mailings - ! :0) - Filing isn't so bad as we are 80% electronic - but keeping my online files clean can be time consuming!
Enjoy your day! :0)
Patricia
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bluefire21
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« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2006, 09:22:22 pm » |
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Filing. I have 100+ rep files and 20+ pieces of paper a day to put away in each file.
Ellen (downing in paper) in TX
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spitfire78
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« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2006, 09:59:07 pm » |
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COPYING!!!! I've just spent probably about 15 hours in the last 3 weeks doing nothing but standing in front of the copy machine and watching it run! And for those of you who wonder why I don't just leave it - as soon as I do the darn thing jams!!!!
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susans
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« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2006, 12:11:12 am » |
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!!! Ok I change my answer, copying was my LEAST favorite thing as well!
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officeguru
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« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2006, 06:38:40 pm » |
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With out a doubt... FILING!!! I took over this position last summer and I am just now finally getting everything filed that the last temp never did (she was in the position about 4 mths).
Why has it taken me so long... because there isn't much 'down' time for me to really dig in and figure out where things are suppose to go. Not to mention, then I get into the issue of trying to figure out if it's something that really needs to be kept!
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countrigal
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« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2006, 10:42:30 pm » |
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Attending meetings. In my previous position, I had to attend several meetings a day/week, and that took up time that I really needed to be using to do my job. It's not like I was there for any real purpose... not contributing, not taking minutes, just a body filling a seat. That's a waste and I hate it! Give me filing any day.
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carolmmarch
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« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2006, 09:46:13 pm » |
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Travel Planning would be my least favorite. No matter how I try to organize it - it just takes too much time. Air, Car, Hotel....etc. I would much rather file than make travel arrangements - My boss doesn't need things filed too often and when he does it's never that much - so it just takes a few mintues. Carol  |
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diamondlady
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« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2006, 09:59:57 pm » |
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Required meetings, most definetley, would rather do filing. We have two of them this week, one with our President who is here from California, which I am really glad it's over with. Then tomorrow is with another employee who lives out of state and travels from location to location making stops here it seems only when the weather is nice. Boy I'd like that job, NOT! Meetings all the time, wasted time especially with the content of some of these meetings. Don't get me wrong, I know we need them and some good information does come from them, but you know, if you need to know something ask, and if they don't tell you usually means they can't just then. The other I'm doing right now, I'm making phone calls setting up interviews for an Information Services position. I am very uncomfortable making cold contacts anyway. I used to do this for another company and hated every minute of it. But this is something I can manage, because I figure they don't know me and they may only meet me once, we may or may not hire this person, so don't worry about it. I'm representing the company, but you know, I just don't like those cold contacts, YUCK! I'd rather be filing or even cleaning for that matter. Diamondlady Peer Moderator  |
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