Best day ever

Last, but not least, Sally and June. These two ladies have nursed this campaign from its infancy to it's phenominal success and worked many late nights to pour over detail after detail. If it wasn't for June's love of the reality show Rockstar, we may not have come up with this excellent idea. Kudos to June for her creativity and for planting the seed (she totally deserved the kiss she got from JD yesterday!!). And Sally... thanks for a professional job in overall management and for expertly dealing with a tough, doubting client, for staying on budget and for always smiling through it all.

Apparently at her company, compliments and recognition are par for the course when you don't suck. But this is far rom the case with far too many employees. Office monkeys don't often get any recognition at all. In an office full of professionals like lawyers or accountants, there is often a belief that they are better than the support staff, and that they exist for abuse and belittlement. I mean, why is it that no matter what it is, the accountant's/lawyer's/consultant's needs are always, ALWAYS urgent? It doesn't matter what the support staff is doing or must do as part of their regular duties. They are always supposed to drop everything and do what the (usually) guy wants immediately. And if the special request at 5:10 pm on Friday is completed well, no word of appreciation is uttered, much less an email going out to everyone saying that you are great. (This might be a good thing, because you don't want more people thinking that they can get away with not planning their day better and giving you a ton of work at 4:30 in the afternoon on Friday.)

You might say that support staff is paid to do just that: do the crapy jobs and accept everyone's whims and demands at any time. If they were paid well, it might justify the callous and at times abusive behaviour. That's a pretty big "might". It's a little like this:

But the fact is that support staff are real people, and real people expect a certain amount of respect regardless of whether or not they aer paid to run errands. Have you ever really thought about what it's like to do your job and have 4 people constantly requiring you to drop what you are doing because they probably didn't plan their day properly? Why do these professionals feel that they can get away with talking about you as though you don't have a brain in your head? "She doesn't understand anything." "He didn't dot his i's in the BULLSHIT document."

Newsflash: Expect mistakes when you are having other people do YOUR job when they already have four things to do at the same time Friday at 3:45.

But this wasn't a diatribe against lawyers and accountants. This was a congratulatory entry for June. However, there is a sad part to all of this. June is very large. Size 24 or something. Cool girl, very nice, but huge, and this hugeness has prevented her from getting guys her whole life. You might say that she has let it prevent her, which may be true. In any case, it's been a problem. The next day, JD called and asked for the number of the thin, cute PR assistant (who thrust her tongue down his throat that evening, kudos to her for showing balls, I guess), and specifically NOT June. It was quite a reality slap in the face for her, and she was actually taking it pretty personally. She's fine now, but still.

If this hits the gossip sites, remember where you heard it first!