To My Future Assistant

We've all been there. You might even be there right now. Do you use your hard-earned university education for such critical tasks as memorising your boss's lunch order or showing them, yet again, how to use the photocopier? Or what about those awesome days when you're instructed to 'send me that thing from a week ago' or 'book me a table at that restaurant that girl said was good', and are then berated when you're not able to figure out immediately what your boss is talking about?

TO MY FUTURE ASSISTANT compiles everything that disgruntled (and optimistic) assistants everywhere promise never to do when they're the boss - from ridiculous requests and backhanded compliments to outright insults. Filled with helpful tips and tricks for Boss Wrangling, these pages are just what the underpaid masses need to survive (and laugh at) the daily injustices of life at the bottom of the career ladder.

But inevitably will.

Lydia Whitlock graduated from Yale in 2008 with a degree in Film Studies and moved to LA with the dream of making it big in showbiz. Instead, she found herself working as a Hollywood assistant, where her experiences inspired her to create the blog tomyassistant.com.

To my future assistant, In these pages lies everything you'll need to know for that day in the way-too-distant future when I am finally rich and powerful enough to hire you. Unlike most of the bosses you'll be unlucky enough to have, I'll know that your university degree should be used for more than memorising my strange lunch orders and lying to get me out of meetings with people I think are unimportant or unattractive. And I'm fairly confident that - despite being a Boss - I'll still know how to dial in to a conference call, use words like please and thank you , and even look things up on Wikipedia, all by myself. Yes, today I'm still one of you, sitting in my tiny cubicle, deprived of sunlight and counting the minutes until happy hour. But when you're my assistant, things will be different. Seriously. No, seriously. I promise. Yours sincerely, The Boss x PS. Coffee. Black. No sugar. Thanks.

We've all been there. You might even be there right now. Do you use your hard-earned university education for such critical tasks as memorising your boss's lunch order or showing them, yet again, how to use the photocopier? Or what about those awesome days when you're instructed to 'send me that thing from a week ago' or 'book me a table at that restaurant that girl said was good', and are then berated when you're not able to figure out immediately what your boss is talking about?TO MY FUTURE ASSISTANT compiles everything that disgruntled (and optimistic) assistants everywhere promise never to do when they're the boss - from ridiculous requests and backhanded compliments to outright insults. Filled with helpful tips and tricks for Boss Wrangling, these pages are just what the underpaid masses need to survive (and laugh at) the daily injustices of life at the bottom of the career ladder.But inevitably will.

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