14 Things All Admin Assistants Know To Be True

Since when did administrative assistant mean maid?

By Sara Weir /

You're probably the most loved and the most hated person in the office. People blame you for their mistakes, they take you for granted, but you're also the Red of the group, and you know how to acquire certain things. Surprisingly, most people have their eyes on the chocolates and the spare biros that you stash in a locked drawer in your desk. The title of an administrative assistant means that you're pretty much a Jack of all trades and you're constantly busy. Your job does make the hours pass by quickly and it would be nice to actually eat your lunch somewhere other than at your desk. Your co workers might take you for granted but you have the extreme satisfaction of knowing that if it weren't for you, that office would fall into mayhem. So if you do work in admin, you wish that someone would have told you what you were getting yourself in for, and you're good at your job. You just wish that everyone else was good at theirs...

14. You Miss Having A Regular Lunch Break Like Everyone Else

Just as you're about to tuck into your exceptionally tasty sandwich, you hear footsteps walking behind you in your direction. They stop just behind your chair and with that sandwich half way into your mouth, is your fellow employee, prodding you in the back with one of your stolen biros. They want something and apparently, you're the only person that can find the paper for the printer. While you're there, you might as well load that tray up too because they're simply 'too busy' to do it themselves. They're too busy to notice that the printer is beside the printer where it always is but instead of just loading it up themselves, they've decided to come to you and make you the middle man. In a job that would have taken a minimum of 30 seconds, it's taken them around five minutes to find you, interrupt you and demand more paper. What makes matters worse is that their desk is in front of the printer... There's always something that comes up and even though you're happy to help, you just wish that people would refill the printer paper themselves, after all, they don't have a deliciously moist, turkey sandwich half inhaled down their throat do they?