Looooooooooooooooooooooooove meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[denny]

In other news, today I am in charge of the entire company, and will be so for the rest of the week, due to my boss's partner having their baby on the night before the admin girl went on holiday.

*hides under desk*

Comments

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Administrator would work, but clearly has too many syllables for any sane person to use in real life ;)

[kaz-pixie.livejournal.com]

There's a difference anyway. The admin boy/girl (although how many admin boys do you see, they're PAs or do data entry?!) does the filing and typing, generally if you're an admin person you're an assistant. An administrator tends to be more important and have some degree of autonomy (do I use an A4 or A5 envelope?)

This is made up and silly, but it is something I have noticed in various jobs, here I am called the administrator/temp desk coordinator/"ASK KAREN" in other places I've been one of the admin team.

[wildeabandon.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure it is that different. My job title is PA to the CTO, and I have autonomy to the extent that I'm currently managing a project with a budget in the hundreds of thousands, but I still get referred to as "admin girl"? (Admittedly usually only once by any given person...)

[kaz-pixie.livejournal.com]

I think it's just the combination of the words that makes me feel like I am utterly worthless to an organisation. When I was about 16 I worked as a part time "admin girl" and it was literally just answering the phone, data entry and filing. Now my job includes so many different things, a large degree of autonomy and responsibility, and leaves me accountable for certain errors I just find the term derogatory. "The admin girl can sort that out" just implies the job is too lowly for anyone else. I object to it.