Message #4409

[yankeestarbuck]

I used to feel the same way.  Then I kinda came to the conclusion that that's why I'm here, administrative support. I have an engineer who will walk all the way down the hall to my cubicle to hand me a report and drawings for a distribution to 3 people or so, with the distro cover sheet all made out for me and everything.  The copier is acrosss this same hall (3 steps forward) from her office.  I think to myself, how lazy is she?  But then I think to myself, she went to school for however many years it takes to become a structural engineer with the P.E. after her name and I think she's paid her dues. She a manager of a pretty large design and construction part of our project and she's at the level where she can ask the assistant to do something that yes, she can do herself, but she's got more on her mind than some distributions. She's concerned with the members of her staff getting the information, not HOW they get it. To me, no big deal. I'm a necessary person.  I bring order and expediency to the mundane office functions and I keep them functioning at a higher level than they would had I not been hired. Keeps that positive work attitude alive.