Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 15, 2012

It comes in handy when you are setting up catered lunch meetings, giving gifts, event planning, and being a well-informed assistant. You're setting up lunches, giving restaurant recommendations to visiting executives, and sending gift baskets of fruit, baked goods, and other edibles. 2) Know great venues.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 10, 2010

Another time I was trying to find a full-serve gas station to fill up, but there was nothing to be found. It was expensive,but when I brought it home I had to do all the work to get it up and running. He loved it and I believe ended up doing his job better because of it. Recently, I bought a new laptop. " Warning!

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 5, 2009

If you know what works best for you and if your job is 80/20 on what you like then you can put up with the small stuff like filing and filling out expense forms. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. ► August (4) Managing your Boss's Inbox Nice ways to say, "Hurry up!"

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 16, 2010

Make sure that tasks directly associated with clients come first, consider the financial impact of a project and its completion date on the company, don’t let deadlines control the priority list (expense reports can wait when there are more important tasks), and consider cause and effect (do A to enable B, which accomplishes C).

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 29, 2009

Since I got in at 9 and my boss was in an hour before me, I knew he had probably seen it already so decided to suck it up and just go in and ask him. He wrote in one sentence that he had " expensive experience" instead of "extensive" and in another wrote "tits" instead of "its." Good thing I checked. It was hooked to her belt loop.

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Service Untitled

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

There are a lot of successful businesses that are not the largest or the least expensive in what they sell. The son and his father are very successful businessmen; so successful they arrived at La Trattori Restaurant in Palm Beach Gardens in a bright red new Ferrari. As we grew up however, certain cars became more attractive.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 31, 2009

He wrote in one sentence that he had "expensive experience" instead of "extensive" and in another wrote "tits" instead of "its." For fun, one of the officers asked me to put my name and birthdate in to see what came up. LOOK UP, LOOK DOWN : While an EA was talking to the CEO, her skirt slipped down and landed at her feet.

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Productivityist

MARCH 22, 2021

We end up being our own worst critics about our looks, our bodies, our intelligence, and our professional capabilities. Roll with the pack when you need to, but stand up for yourself. It may be a nice coat, a nice meal out – one that is obviously a little too expensive, or even wanting to go on a holiday to be pampered.

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Success

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In a time when the 24-hour news cycle bombards us with stories of tragedy, heartbreak and deceit, it can be difficult to keep our heads up and remain optimistic about the world we live in. The Jewish and Christian communities of Victoria quickly stepped up. More than $1 million was raised from people of all beliefs—including atheists.

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Brilliantly Better

MARCH 7, 2010

If you want to impress, you can’t let up as quickly as others. You keep yourself from telling 20 people you are going to do things for them, ending up only doing the things for 5 of them, and instead tell 5 people you will do things for them, and do them a little better than you described.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

DECEMBER 18, 2013

It is known that age only plays a factor because the more years you have worked for a company the more expensive an employee is because of their salary, overtime, and other perks/benefits that are considered in the overall compensation package (401k matching, retirement, etc). And it brings us to your final question… “What would you do?

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Practically Perfect PA

MAY 14, 2012

Last week I was having a fabulous holiday in New York to celebrate my Mum’s 60th birthday. We ate at an Italian restaurant called Il Violino on Columbus Avenue which was very nice, although we did have a slight run in with the waiter who thought we had not tipped enough, despite it being 20% of the bill! Raging Bull!

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

We work tirelessly to put up good content that people can use to improve their income, and we don’t get paid a penny for it. That’s our goal with each and every post we put up on this site. There’s a new free post that goes up every day.” Holiday Season Kicks Off – 2 Weeks in Review! Why the hell not?

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