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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 03:00 AM Original message |
Ever had a job where a secretary had inordinate power over those who technically outranked her? |
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ChoralScholar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 03:05 AM Response to Original message |
1. I had that happen at my current job. |
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gr8dane_daddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 03:07 AM Response to Original message |
2. Every job |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 03:12 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. that's bad. I was hoping someone would tell me I'm nuts. I worked as a messenger for a couple of |
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radwriter0555 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 08:18 AM Response to Original message |
4. How DO those women get SUCH power and still remain SO INCOMPETENT??? How on earth |
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 08:22 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. What makes you think they are Incompetent? |
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lukasahero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 10:08 AM Response to Reply #5 |
18. And what makes them think they are women? |
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uncle ray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 12:49 PM Response to Reply #18 |
39. a powerful male secretary |
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radwriter0555 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-07-06 02:10 PM Response to Reply #5 |
102. Here's an example of incompetent: Boss's pet, the office bitch was in charge of |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:31 PM Response to Reply #4 |
48. boss doesn't like giving crap to people, so he lets her be bad cop while he seems blissfully above |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 08:23 AM Response to Original message |
6. My husband has this at his job right now. |
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Little Wing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 08:27 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. doh |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 08:33 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. doh...I kind of do that on purpose. |
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Little Wing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 09:07 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. even secretaries? |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 09:28 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. ... |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 09:51 AM Response to Reply #9 |
15. That's pretty nasty. |
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Little Wing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 09:53 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. No |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 09:59 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Okay. Good to know. |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 10:50 AM Response to Reply #6 |
23. If She's Directing Calls |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 12:18 PM Response to Reply #23 |
30. Except I'm the only person who has his work number and he doesn't |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 11:30 AM Response to Reply #6 |
28. In my office |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 12:19 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. Good for you. Not for this secretary. She doesn't get my name...if |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 12:38 PM Response to Reply #31 |
35. If she knows it is the spouse of an employee ... |
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Missy Vixen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 12:44 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. The boss is probably getting ready to lower the boom on the employee |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:00 PM Response to Reply #38 |
41. The boss is getting ready to lower the boom on my husband? Who gets |
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Pithlet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:09 PM Response to Reply #41 |
45. If you call that infrequently, she may not recognize your voice. |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:13 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. I know her personally, otherwise I'd give her the benefit of the doubt. |
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Pithlet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:35 PM Original message |
I didn't mean to pigeonhole you. |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
57. Before I really lose my top over this, I truly do wish I hadnt vented about |
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Pithlet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:47 PM Response to Reply #57 |
61. Well, I don't want to make you upset |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:49 PM Response to Reply #61 |
63. I don't, but there you have it. I responded to the OP and got attacked |
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Pithlet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 02:35 PM Response to Reply #63 |
74. I don't blame you for feeling attacked. |
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Missy Vixen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 05:55 PM Response to Reply #41 |
82. MrsGrumpy, I was actually responding to another poster |
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Tyrone Slothrop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 12:33 PM Response to Reply #6 |
34. I'm a secretary/personal assistant |
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Missy Vixen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 12:42 PM Response to Reply #34 |
37. Isn't that the truth? |
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Patiod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 12:54 PM Response to Reply #37 |
40. Who is your avatar? |
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Missy Vixen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 06:01 PM Response to Reply #40 |
83. Oh, some guy who probably has a secretary of his own |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:04 PM Response to Reply #37 |
43. This secretary is not the lowest paid in the office...not by a long shot. |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:03 PM Response to Reply #34 |
42. Let's get one thing clear. This is a shop with 15 employees. This |
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MissMillie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:44 PM Response to Reply #42 |
59. if you don't want to leave your name, that's fine |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:46 PM Response to Reply #59 |
60. No. He doesn't. It's not a receptionist position where one deals with a lot |
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MissMillie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 02:19 PM Response to Reply #60 |
72. I didn't say that |
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Tyrone Slothrop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:51 PM Response to Reply #42 |
65. Who's really being the ***** here? |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:56 PM Response to Reply #65 |
68. Which is exactly how I speak to the other woman in the office. |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 02:57 PM Response to Reply #65 |
76. I'm POSITIVE that the employees have only the nicest things to say about Mrs. G. |
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Phillycat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:31 PM Response to Reply #34 |
49. I have to agree here. |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:37 PM Response to Reply #49 |
52. I've worked as a receptionist as well. This woman is not one of those. |
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Phillycat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:51 PM Response to Reply #52 |
64. I did read your post. |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:52 PM Response to Reply #64 |
66. She's a witch, gets what she deserves, and I'm completely sorry |
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Mad_Dem_X (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:34 PM Response to Reply #34 |
50. THANK YOU! |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:39 PM Response to Reply #50 |
56. For Cripe's Sake. Read my post. |
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Tyrone Slothrop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:56 PM Response to Reply #56 |
67. All you said is that she asks "Who's calling?" |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 02:01 PM Response to Reply #67 |
69. "She thinks she owns them" n/t |
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SOteric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 03:43 PM Response to Reply #6 |
77. I'd be really tempted |
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astral (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-07-06 02:31 AM Response to Reply #6 |
94. I would never remember the voice of someone who called six times a year N/T |
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HarukaTheTrophyWife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-07-06 11:43 AM Response to Reply #94 |
99. She is the *only* person who has her husband's work number. |
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radwriter0555 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-07-06 02:12 PM Response to Reply #6 |
103. I'm a boss and if someone refuses to give their name to my secretary |
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graywarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 09:16 AM Response to Original message |
10. my last job, the bookkeeper ran the show. Then she got arrested for embezzlement |
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wildhorses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 09:31 AM Response to Original message |
12. my current boss and his secret society of spies, of which his |
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xmas74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 09:39 AM Response to Original message |
13. I was a secretary at a place |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 10:28 AM Response to Reply #13 |
22. that would suck as a job |
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xmas74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 03:49 PM Response to Reply #22 |
78. We had to know about every phone call coming into the |
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Missy Vixen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 06:42 PM Response to Reply #78 |
88. I once had to call screen Gary Hart |
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xmas74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 07:19 PM Response to Reply #88 |
90. And that is the nature of the job. |
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idgiehkt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 05:21 PM Response to Reply #13 |
81. I think alot of them are put in positions they don't want to be in |
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xmas74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 06:14 PM Response to Reply #81 |
86. I think they are too. |
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cwydro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 09:40 AM Response to Original message |
14. This is going on where I work also.... nt |
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MissMillie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 10:24 AM Response to Original message |
19. ssshhhh... you're going to blow my cover |
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Kajsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 10:24 AM Response to Original message |
20. I've taught in schools where a teacher |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:35 PM Response to Reply #20 |
51. you know it's funny, I teach college, and the focus of power varies dramatically from school to |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 03:52 PM Response to Reply #51 |
79. Boy does it ever. |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 10:26 AM Response to Original message |
21. I'd blame the boss & not the secretary |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 10:56 AM Response to Reply #21 |
24. Thank You |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:38 PM Response to Reply #21 |
53. roughly the same in Hollywood, though they call the upwardly mobile ones "assistants" |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:48 PM Response to Reply #53 |
62. I've been lucky so far |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 11:12 AM Response to Original message |
25. All the admins where I work (and there are like 6 of them) |
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ohiosmith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 11:16 AM Response to Original message |
26. Yes. She was a 38D. |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:39 PM Response to Reply #26 |
55. And you're afraid she'll fire one of those big guns at you? |
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kwassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 11:20 AM Response to Original message |
27. The secretary only has the power the boss lets her have. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
29. No, but I've known cases in which the secretary was more competent |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:41 PM Response to Reply #29 |
58. I have had the positive experience too, and have a lot of respect for those people like I do for |
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Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 12:24 PM Response to Original message |
32. I know what you mean. |
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Missy Vixen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
33. No, but I've worked for many incompetent bosses in my time |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:06 PM Response to Reply #33 |
44. Julie, I would agree with you except for the fact that I know this woman |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:25 PM Response to Reply #33 |
47. that's been my experience, too, Julie |
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Missy Vixen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 06:20 PM Response to Reply #47 |
87. This is the truth |
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Mad_Dem_X (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 01:38 PM Response to Reply #33 |
54. Great post, Julie! |
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lukasahero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 04:33 PM Response to Reply #33 |
80. In (eek) 20 years of corporate work, I've learned there's one thing you need to know to survive: |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
36. Law office. Bingo. |
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Beausoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 02:01 PM Response to Original message |
70. God, when I was a fledgling teacher, the school secretary was BRUTAL |
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femmocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 10:43 PM Response to Reply #70 |
91. School secretaries can be very authoritarian. |
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Beausoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-07-06 12:12 AM Response to Reply #91 |
93. Yep. So now she can prey upon sick people. Sounds like the same person I |
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Midlodemocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 02:10 PM Response to Original message |
71. Am I the ONLY one here who read Mrs. G's post? |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 02:21 PM Response to Reply #71 |
73. Thank you Midlo... |
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belladonna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 06:07 PM Response to Reply #73 |
84. Hey MrsGrumpy, you ARE among friends |
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Puglover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 02:53 PM Response to Reply #71 |
75. No shit Midlo. |
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HarukaTheTrophyWife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 06:47 PM Response to Reply #71 |
89. Nope, I read it, too. |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-07-06 11:18 AM Response to Reply #71 |
97. No, you're not |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 06:08 PM Response to Original message |
85. I WAS that secretary. |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-07-06 10:39 AM Response to Reply #85 |
95. so that's why so few people live in Alaska... |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-07-06 11:17 AM Response to Reply #95 |
96. Haha. |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-07-06 11:35 AM Response to Reply #96 |
98. what about the subordinates? Did their heads on sticks cry? |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-07-06 12:24 PM Response to Reply #98 |
100. Really, REALLY I was just kidding. |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-07-06 04:13 PM Response to Reply #100 |
104. so how did you get those scalps on your belt? |
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bertha katzenengel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-06-06 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
92. If every legal secretary in DC called in sick on the same day, Congress would disband |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-07-06 12:27 PM Response to Reply #92 |
101. You got it, Bertha... |
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