Posted on 02/19/2021 3:09:24 PM PST by SamAdams76
There was a time in America where the secretaries literally ran the offices in the business world. It is still mostly true even today but now they are called things like "executive assistants" and "office managers."
If you wanted a job interview, you had to go through the secretary. If you wanted to talk to any manager or executive at a given business, you had to go through the secretary.
Similarly, the upper management of any company utterly relied on their secretarial staff to carry out virtually all business and inter-office correspondence.
Almost all secretaries were women. Almost all managers and executives were men. And the men typically could not write even the most simple business letter. They could not work a typewriter. They often could not even work the telephone. They relied on their secretaries for that.
These secretaries took months, even years, of business school where they learned to type, to learn shorthand (required to take dictation), file and retrieve the companies vital records and to basically organize the schedules of anybody who was "important" in the firm.
But it was the secretaries that were among the most important and indispensable personnel of any going business concern. In short, the secretaries ruled. And the men drooled.
They were incredibly efficient.
Check out the linked video to see how this was especially true in the year 1947.
Now that there is a sexitary!
My first job after I retired from my military career was with a mid-sized Defense Contractor. The President and GM of the company had a secretary who was a blonde bombshell.
She was quick of whit and extremely efficient at her job. Occasionally she would have to deal with an _sshole who would make disparaging remarks about her.
Usually related to her obvious female assets as the only reason she had her job. Her comeback was classic.
She’d tell the poor slob that her IQ was 4 times her bust size. And, that his IQ was obviously the exact opposite equation in relation to his manhood.
I have had a very distinguished, satisfying, upwardly mobile career as a secretary now corporate assistant for 42 years and counting. I’m grateful, thankful for the opportunities I’ve had and where they have brought me to today. I feel I’ve been much more fortunate than most.
The best thing about working for VP’s was i got to use most of the executive assistants like they were my own. And they all got a lot of stuff done.
Most on the lower end of the Totem Pole and those with out a clue, do not realize what an asset you and yours were to corporate america,especially b4 the digital age.
Thanks
And Thank You!
I was a “Bell Head” for 30 plus,we called ya’all clerks,all of us on the street knew you “Gals” held down the fort and were the back bone.
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