This week is Administrative Professionals Week and today is typically the day most people observe their admins. So I thought it fitting to share the following timely story of the importance of administrative professionals...
Don's boss's (boss A) boss's boss (referred to boss C for remainder of story) reports directly to the CEO of the company. On a weekly basis, boss C meets with the CEO and executive board to discuss the status of various IT projects. Boss C welcomes emails from Don discussing successes and challenges. Last week Don sent an email to boss C to share some positive stories with the CEO. Boss C emailed Don back requesting some specific details about the projects. Don's return email included the following text:
"...we had sex vendor user interfaces as follows:"
Don copied all of his bosses on the email, as well as their administrative professionals. Not long after he sent the email, he got a call from the administrative professional responsible for reading boss A's email. She had immediately caught his typo and in an amazing feat was able to retract the email and allow him to correct his error and send it again.
I shudder to think what would have happened if it had made it all the way up the chain of bosses, or if NO ONE would have caught it until boss C went to report it to the CEO.
Another administrative professional saves the day!!!
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