Comments on: Do we really need another greeting card day? http://acelebrationofcurves.com/2009/04/23/do-we-really-need-another-greeting-card-day/ Plus size women's clothes, plus size fashion, plus size style Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:46:23 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jan http://acelebrationofcurves.com/2009/04/23/do-we-really-need-another-greeting-card-day/comment-page-1/#comment-876 Jan Fri, 01 May 2009 10:39:27 +0000 http://acelebrationofcurves.com/2009/04/23/do-we-really-need-another-greeting-card-day/#comment-876 The BigLaw firm I work for (after laying off 10% of its support staff in April) was so insensitive on Administrative Professional Day as to send out a US firm-wide memo announcing that all Assistants would be required for the new Evaluation Period to pass a firm designed Word 2003 Skills Test! Talk about being cold-hearted. The BigLaw firm I work for (after laying off 10% of its support staff in April) was so insensitive on Administrative Professional Day as to send out a US firm-wide memo announcing that all Assistants would be required for the new Evaluation Period to pass a firm designed Word 2003 Skills Test! Talk about being cold-hearted.

]]> By: Wendy http://acelebrationofcurves.com/2009/04/23/do-we-really-need-another-greeting-card-day/comment-page-1/#comment-862 Wendy Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:54:43 +0000 http://acelebrationofcurves.com/2009/04/23/do-we-really-need-another-greeting-card-day/#comment-862 I have been an administrative professional for over 8 years at the same organization, a church. The first time they remembered the big day, 3-4 years ago, they showed up at my office when I had three volunteers in to help me with projects for an upcoming event and tried to insist that I leave for them to buy me an ice cream. Whoopee! To which I had to say, no thank you, about four times. Then, the second time they have even remembered the holiday, on Wednesday late afternoon, they herded the 3 admin profs into a room where they were already having a meeting, and handed us a card with a gift certificate. The head pastor announced that here's something I don't like at all, so if you don't like it, I guess you'll have to sell it to someone who does. Gee...THANKS! It was a massage gift cert, which is not something I'm interested in. I'm so effing broke with what they pay...give me a gift cert to where I get my car fixed (we all go to the same place about a block away) or something that I can really use. They didn't bother at all to find out what I might like or need. It actually made me feel LESS valued. I have been an administrative professional for over 8 years at the same organization, a church. The first time they remembered the big day, 3-4 years ago, they showed up at my office when I had three volunteers in to help me with projects for an upcoming event and tried to insist that I leave for them to buy me an ice cream. Whoopee! To which I had to say, no thank you, about four times.

Then, the second time they have even remembered the holiday, on Wednesday late afternoon, they herded the 3 admin profs into a room where they were already having a meeting, and handed us a card with a gift certificate. The head pastor announced that here’s something I don’t like at all, so if you don’t like it, I guess you’ll have to sell it to someone who does. Gee…THANKS! It was a massage gift cert, which is not something I’m interested in. I’m so effing broke with what they pay…give me a gift cert to where I get my car fixed (we all go to the same place about a block away) or something that I can really use. They didn’t bother at all to find out what I might like or need. It actually made me feel LESS valued.

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