Alas, my secretary is hitching up with her boyfriend and moving away

Losing a secretary is a bit like losing a spouse

[Webwork]

Boyfriends are the bane of long term faithful work relationships.

Fran is the second secretary in the last 12 years to leave me for a boyfriend.

Next secretary has to sign an employment prenup. :(

[lawman]

Maybe its time for me to give mine a raise.

[Automan Empire]

Count your blessings. My former secretary just hit me up with an unemployment claim, which was fortunately easy to fight in her case.

It is darn hard to find someone worthwhile who will do this job for a long time without quitting. Most of the reason, I suspect, is because such individuals do not stay secretaries, they become entrepreneurs.

You will miss her even more once you start interviewing replacements. People want a customer-interface job but cannot read an ad, bring a resume, or name anything worthwhile that they might bring to the company. My condolences!

[snowman]

You should be happy for her that she found someone she loves and can spend the rest of her life with!

Nobody's gravemarker ever said "I wish I'd spent more time at work"!

[lawman]

>>You should be happy for her that she found someone she loves and can spend the rest of her life with!

I found somone to love and spend the rest of my life with, so I married her. Then I got divorced. Not to worry though as I found someone else to love and spend the rest of my life with.

[Essex_boy]

Oh you cynic

[ken_b]

I found somone to love and spend the rest of my life with, so I married her. Then I got divorced. Not to worry though as I found someone else to love and spend the rest of my life with.

And your secretary puts up with all this chasing around?

[vincevincevince]

Within a smaller business it is difficult to retain secretaries as it is hard to offer them a promising career pathway. If you've only got one secretary then there's nowhere to go but PA, and many people with one secretary use them as a PA anyway...

[grandpa]

Losing a secretary is a bit like losing a spouse

So, is gaining a secretary is a bit like getting married?

I got a new secretary today, and I am impressed with her attitude and abilities. But I doubt that she will make or serve my coffee, breakfast, lunch or dinner. More likely I'll get a response like, "git it yerself ya lazy hippy!"

Hey, I'm still happy to have her here, and if she called in tomorrow to quit I know I would cry real tears.

[Webwork]

So, is gaining a secretary is a bit like getting married?

Everything that makes a marriage work also makes a relationship with a secretary work, so, I'd say the answer if yes.

'cept the s-x, of course. :)

[iamlost]

What you want is a secretary:
* who can do the job now.
* who can adapt as required.
* who can work with you.
* whom you can work with.
* who will work for what you offer.
* who will work the hours you require.
plus:
* who grew up in the area.
* who has close family in the area.
* who has been firmly attached for years.
* whose spouse is firmly rooted in the local economy.
* whose children have left the nest.
* who is physically, mentally, and emotionally fit.
* whose family is physically, mentally, and emotionally fit.

Me thinks there be few qualified applicants.

Note: It is my belief that the following trades/professions should be required by statute never to move, retire, die, etc.: accountants, auto mechanics, dentists, hairdressers, lawyers, physicians, tailors...

Change: Bah Humbug. Unless, of course, the change is at my request.

[grandpa]

so, I'd say the answer is yes
Well then, here's a toast to your loss and another to my future. Reading thru iamlost's list -- I may have found a keeper.

[weeks]

Mostly I look to hire people who have skills, abilities and interests which I do not have but the business needs. (Bookkeeping, for example. "Charming" would be good, too.)

Now, that is not a bad rule in looking for someone to marry, too. Of course, then they drive you crazy for being so different.

[Tigrou]

Webwork, the problem you have is that you didn't work her hard enough. If she was doing 80-hour weeks she would have had no chance to have a social life.

First job was being a Smithers-type and was naive enough to let that happen to me. Now I just do it to myself. :-)

[pmac]

>>> Maybe its time for me to give mine a raise.

Or ask her out to lunch.

[lawman]

Or ask her out to lunch.

Would certainly be cheaper than a raise. :)