| Well, I get to work a couple minutes early every | | | | works fine anyway), and put my purse away. Then I |
| morning. The “big boss” requires that we’re | | | | unlock the door to my boss’ office, because he |
| in the office and ready to work at exactly 8:00 am, so | | | | always forgets his key and depends on me being |
| there’s usually a rush to get in the building a few | | | | there to let him into his office.job listings |
| minutes before. I stop at the lounge to drop off my | | | | Then I open the copy room. Most likely, a professor |
| lunch in the refrigerator, and the fridge always reminds | | | | already unlocked it to do some last minute printing |
| me of the time that someone stole my yogurt and ate | | | | before his/her 8:00 am class. I go through the pile of |
| it. The jerk. Anyway, usually there’s a few faculty | | | | papers that are sitting next to the printer. Most of them |
| members in there, waiting with empty mugs in their | | | | are e-mails that were printed the day before and |
| hands for the coffee machine to stop dripping. We | | | | never picked up. I throw those in the trash. The newer |
| don’t have a ‘pause and serve’ one, so they | | | | ones get placed neatly on the table, in the hopes that |
| have to wait for it to finish. One morning the coffee | | | | someone will claim them. If I find any exams, I take |
| pot was gone because a secretary had taken it home | | | | them to the professor and tell him/her not to leave |
| to thoroughly clean it, and a woman actually started | | | | exams in the copy room. I turn on the shredder, which |
| screaming when she saw that the coffee pot was | | | | is probably full, but if I don’t check it I don’t have |
| missing. | | | | to empty it. |
| Job Interview Skills Click here | | | | My boss arrives later with his usual greeting: “Hi |
| When I get to my office suite, I have to turn on twelve | | | | beautiful! Anything new and exciting?” I ignore the |
| lamps on my way to my desk. The fluorescent lights | | | | “nickname,” although I’ve asked him to call |
| gave us headaches, so we all switched to “task | | | | me by my first name. He expects me to say that |
| lighting.” When I get to my desk, I turn my computer | | | | nothing is new, so that he can sit in his office and hide. I |
| on, ignore the three error messages that pop up every | | | | love when I have stuff for him to do first thing in the |
| day (I don’t understand them, and my computer | | | | morning. |