I am so tired of assistants/secretaries who can’t do nothing. I might as well do everything myself. I don’t know why they even get paid. Couldn’t even put in a TOA/TOC. Ridiculous. *I am very nice and respectful to my secretary* It is just frustrating.

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This morning my assistant asked whether “[name] GmbH” was a person or a company 🙃

Regarding TOA/TOC, can’t you send it out to doc services?

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Brilliant.

Pls fix.

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Some are competent, some are incompetent, some are lazy (regardless of competence). Avoid the incompetent ones.

For the others, you should be showing your appreciation/bribing them with flowers, chocolates, lunch, movie tix, etc. They will like you, prioritize your work, help you out of a jam, and cover for mistakes.

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They should know how to or be proactive in learning. In the fall, I took a class that was meant for staff regarding TOA/TOC, so I could know for EMERGENCIES.

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Good plan!

See, stuff like that. 😂😂 Come onnnnn.

I am in a small satellite on the other side of the country, so I don’t have that luxury or I am not aware of us having one.

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We use Best Authority (software) to generate TOA automatically. I always do my own TOC because I like to format it in a certain way and see how it looks on the page. Some secretaries are amazing (mine can do everything that a legal assistant does and is invaluable at doing my time, handling expenses, booking travel etc) but many of them are unnecessary expenses who will be cut during the next downturn.

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