Secretaries (Or Personal Assistants) On Nairaland

 

Hi People,

Just wanted to find out who wil be attending the NIPS programme this may
or if anybody has attended the training before?

Yes I have attended before but I somewhat reserve my comment.

hello my people long time!!

MTNN, has opening for Personal Assistant.  Try your luck at www.mtnonline.com.   l have applied.

@nasirtofa
Please tell us if the stuff didn't worth, let us know for the best of the interested members.

MyPeace thanks for the information. God will help us.

fellow secretaries and PAs, just seeing this forum, can't go through all d pages so i only went through d first page, found it very interesting, thanx to mypeace et al.

please kindly differentiate between a PA and secretary, cozz in my office i'm being refered to as PA and sec. so i'll like to kno d difference. thankx

@mypeace
thanx

another thing happened today, and as an experienced PA, i want u to tell if i've done d rite thing.

there's dis coy below ours, and d boss is a very close pal to my boss (wen i say very close , i mean very close to my own understanding). so, today a form was brught up to my boss to sign and give dem a reference letter, concerning a property they'r getting, but  unfortunately my boss is not arround, so i had to sign onbehalf of my boss, den typed d letter of reference.

my boss is not yet back, so i don't know wat his reaction would be. but tell me av i done d wrong thin or am ok?

 
1.To collect the doc from them, and keep it till my boss comes back.
2.  lf its urgent, l would contact my boss on phone and seek his advice.
3. lf he could not be reached on phone, l will pass the doc to the next snr Manager.

thats exactly what i could have done
cos business is different from pleasure
if his your boss's friend he should know that your boss is not around
so why bringing the docs in his absence

1.To collect the doc from them, and keep it till my boss comes back.
2.  lf its urgent, l would contact my boss on phone and seek his advice.
3. lf he could not be reached on phone, l will pass the doc to the next snr Manager.

Yes, that is what any reasonable person will have done.  But since you have decided to take that singular action and your Boss is still not back, I think you should find a means of letting him know about your action.  This will allow him to take the necessary step in case  he has an opinion different from yours.  This will save you too.

I hope I am not taking the matter too far.

my ear is itching
no mind me, he may not take it serious,as we are taking it here.

@Chy
lt depends on your kind of office, l don't think u should worry over that, lf you are already up to one year in your office.

in my coy, it is:

3 months  maternity leave, which runs concurrently with your annual leave, meaning no annual leave for you in that year.

After the 3 months, you will either resume 1 hr late or close 1 hr early. so either u resume by 9am instead of 8am or close by 4pm instead of 5pm for another 3months.

none of the secretaries in my office has been on maternity leave, but when am on my annual leave, the Admin secretary combines my work with her and vice versa.

l don't have a baby yet.  But as a worker, its always better to get a  matured house-help (they are necessary evil, whether we believe it or not, a career mom needs them) who will take  care of your baby while u are at work.

l have a friend, who takes her baby to a day-care close to her office, and picks up the baby when she closes from work.  l don't seem to like this arrangement, its a stress on the baby.  shes wakes up by 4am everyday to bath the baby and dress up for work, gets home late to wash the baby's clothes and prepare for  next day.  She said her baby sleeps by 11pm to 12am, which is a lot of stress to the baby even herself.

l think its better to hv a househelp who will take care of the baby, instead of all the stress.  Just my opinion, l may be wrong, since l don't have a baby yet!

itching to hear his reaction .  am glad, he's the carefree type.

cheers!

eh yah, my boss is not harsh, and he understands quickly, may be b'cozz he's an older man,
once u can giv d reason for doing wat u did, den u r free

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MyPeace, which induction are you referring to?

i's wanted to ask dat too

ok

ooh girl! l feel u     

Mypeace, how you dey?

I was thinking you wd attend the Induction so that you'll share the full gist with us.

Work is ok Mypeace, am working on something that is taking most of my time now.

Yes, you said you were not going to register with NIPS yet, but I thought someone could just go and witness the Induction as a guest

Anyway, am happy you have made up your mind for your Masters programme this year, may God see you through and grant you success.

Takia.

Hi, am a Marketing Executive and am compelled to drop Proprosals for the attention of CEOs and Corporate Heads. Believe me its not fun when you are told that the MD is not on seat or too busy. I have also worked as a Secretary and what I try to do then is be as honest as I can, Something like " its probable that my boss may not be interested in this but if you insist I'll still deliver this to him". Or again I can direct the person to someone who can be of assistance.
I think we just have to keep in mind that no one job is easier than the other.