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(Belated) Halloween Admin Horror Story
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Lilit Marcus used to have a really, really terrible assistant job. So she quit. Now she is the Co-Founder and Editor in Chief of www.savetheassistants.com, “a blog for the beleaguered,” where assistants from all industries can submit horror stories, get advice, and more. A New Yorker via North Carolina, Lilit is also a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Newsweek, The New York Post, and Mediabistro.com. When she’s not trying to save assistants, Lilit lives, works, writes, learns to cook, and shops for vintage clothes in Brooklyn, NY.
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November 05, 2009
The office manager at my company loves to do corny decorations for holidays. This year she did a whole Halloween thing with orange streamers and cutouts of ghosts and stuff. In the break room, there were a whole bunch of paper tombstones on the wall. My friend and I got a sharpie and wrote names of people who got laid off this year on all the tombstones. When my boss saw it, he was REALLY MAD. We all had to go to this big meeting where he and the office manager yelled at us and told us how us writing names of laidoff people on the tombstones was bad for morale. Funny, I thought actually laying people off was the part that was bad for morale.
- Submitted by Aaron, New York City
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