Due to the particular twists and turns of my career, I've never had a job which was entirely 'administrative' in nature, but I have both recruited for and managed office administration staff on various occasions. Some have been wonderful, and some not quite as great. Because of that I've really learnt to appreciate having someone there who's organised, efficient, anticipates tasks in advance, capable of producing great quality work, communicates well, etc.
But time and again both inside and outside work I come across some people who regard these jobs as expendable and unskilled. For example, I've just had to respond to a work email from a someone who's very much of the view that minute-taking, typing up reports, etc are 'basic' tasks that could be handled by absolutely anyone assuming they had a small amount of training. My attempts to explain that taking concise and accurate minutes in a senior management meeting containing up to 20 individuals is a skilled rather than a 'basic' task is falling on deaf ears so far!
Me and my colleagues will bring them round eventually I'm sure but it's just irritated me this afternoon. Why does administrative/secretarial work get undervalued so often??? I think our admin workers are worth their weight in gold when they do their jobs well!
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chocolatesolveseverything · 10/03/2013 16:14
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