If there is one thing my company loves, it’s memos. I seriously feel like we get at least 3 a week. Recently, it’s been about wearing jeans to work, how to use the Internet appropriately, or the 5K that the office is running together next month. 

Since I was an intern, I wanted to work on events. I loved the fast-paced environment and running on adrenaline. As and intern and when I was a sales assistant, I assisted with numerous events. I ran around, did as people asked and solved small problems where I could. I was always assisting someone. I was never working on my event.

Very soon, I have my first event. I’m freaking out (which is causing me to break out, awesome). This isn’t just a “hey, let’s have a cocktail party for about 40 people” event. It’s a “hey, let’s fly a bunch a people to a place and do this and then that and oh, we just found out we need go here when we scheduled this” event.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m excited. But I’m stressed. I said to WG2 this weekend, “Um, why did I want this job?” I’ve realized that what I love about events, is the actual event. I love event day, even if I’m stressed. And there is nothing like the high I have after an event is finished and gone well.

Pre-event, well, it’s a lot different when you’re the one planning. I’m learning the ropes of the pre-event and learning to love it. There is much more that goes into than I realized, I’ve dropped the ball on a few things and, I think, disappointed Mom Boss a bit (another story for another day). Because it’s my first event, I wanted everything leading up to it to go smoothly.

With the event only days away, I can only just get everything together, pull it all off on event day and use what I’ve learn with this event for the next one. Oh, and hope that the post-event feeling is event better because it was my event and it went well.

Today was one of those days where one second it was 8AM and then next time I looked at the clock it was 11:30AM. Where did my day go?!

Did you know that the Wednesday of the last full week of April is Administrative Professionals’ Day?

Yea, me either.

That was until this morning when my boss presented me with a HUGE (we’re talking massive) bouquet of flowers! He thanked me for all the work I’m doing and I blushed because any time someone compliments me I turn into a teenager meeting their teen idol.

To give a little background on my job (because I realize it can be confusing – what does she do??? I can hear you asking…she does events, and emails and now she’s an admin assistant – whatttttt?). I am technically the assistant to one of our EVP’s, so I handle his calendar mostly, print stuff, file stuff. But I would say that takes up about 10% of my day. The rest of my time at work, I work on special projects which include our two large events a year and most recently an e-mail strategy project.

Right now my flowers are sitting on my desk emitting a heavenly scent and some of the flowers haven’t even bloomed – so I’m thinking these suckers are going to last a lot longer than a week!

Man, I love my boss.

There is a sales assistant in an outside office that I have never met. I’ve spoken to her only once or twice on the phone and she seems nice enough. But she commits one of my top office crimes. She flags every single email as “Highest Importance” with a bright red exclamation point.

To be fair, she has sent me some important information that I requested for an upcoming event. It was, however, similar information that I requested from other sales assistants and no one else changed the priority of their emails.

The bright red exclamation point on most to all of a person’s emails is one of my biggest pet peeves because I just don’t understand the logic behind it. If every email you send has a bright red exclamation point, every email is of equal importance.

I received nearly 10 emails from her today and all of them, in her opinion, where of highest importance. In my opinion, maybe two were of high importance and even that’s a stretch.

I repel technology. I have broken numerous digital cameras. I believe I have dropped more than one cell phone in water. My computers die on me all. the. time. It all comes down to technology hating me (because obviously this is the conclusion I’ve come to and not that I’m clumsy or something).

Just like my personal technology, the technology I work with also hates my guts. The printer loathes me – seriously, it jams almost every time I use it and never when Bill, my tech guy, uses it. Unfair, unfair, unfair. Anyway, my Internet is frequently testy (as in I get signed off of Gchat too often daily).

During my second month at my new job, my Internet just stopped working. My e-mails got stuff in my “drafts” folder, my Gmail couldn’t connect to the server, and my Internet magically turned off.

So of course I landed on my theory of technology hates me. So I traipsed over to the Tech dungeon and told them of my technology woes (and I probably told them all about how my cell phones just slipped into sink and how my computer from 1999 up and died on me the other day).

My fave tech guy Bill followed me back to my desk and I sat down all flummoxed as to why oh why the Internet wasn’t working since our server wasn’t down.

Bill took one look at my computer, rolled his eyes and poked his head under my desk.

“WG2,” he said in a tone that sounded eerily like my dad’s when he is mad at me. “Do you swing or kick your legs under your desk?”

Turns out I had kicked some wires free underneath my desk. And now whenever I ask Bill to do anything tech-related, he makes me check all the wires near or around my desk/computer/printer to make sure I haven’t repelled aka kicked the technology out of the wall.

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Sorry for the short Meeting Notes this week. It was just too beautiful in Manhattan for me to concentrate and blog!

The new me starts on Monday. I could not be more excited. Finally, I will only have to do one job. But I could also not be more annoyed. The new me will be the Marketing Assistant. She will work on projects for Mom Boss, Dad Boss, Promo Girl, me and the rest of our department. We will manage the new me on her projects. So, she should probably take us seriously.

Normally, it’s easy to take Promo Girl, myself and other cubicle pod-mate seriously. Sure, we may chat a little bit, make fun of one another and maybe get a little inappropriate. Just a little. But we’re hard workers.

That was until the two of them discovered Twilight. Promo girl rented the movie over the weekend (before reading the book, which, for the record, I did not condone) and she is now in love with Edward Cullen. Our other co-worker is half way through the series, has seen the movie and is equally obsessed.

Back in November, when I finished the series, I begged them both to read it. I told them they’d love it. They thought I was a crazy, vampire obsessed teeny-bopper. Now, the two of them are printing out photos of Robert Pattinson, decorating their cubes and saying “oh hello Edward,” every time they sit at their desks.

I’ve been partaking in the Edward love fest and I even have one picture in my cube. I spend a little time censoring NewMoonMovie.org for Promo Girl so that she’s doesn’t find anything out before she reads the book. I’ve explained the obsession to Working Girl Two and she put it best. She said that they were in the pre-teen obsessed phase and that we, having finished the series and passed that phase, are in the cool teenager phase.

The three us decided yesterday that when the new me starts, the Twilight talk must stop. I’m not knocking any Twilight fans. I’ll be the first to admit I love Edward Cullen but how is a new girl supposed to take us seriously when we’re saying things like “I wish I were a vampire with sparkling skin.”

For the past two months, I’ve been in a work slump. One of my friends told me it was spring fever, and I agree. The weather has been drab (seriously, I am so psyched it is gonna be over 50 this weekend in Chi) and my projects were at a low hum.

I’ve been bored and my brain had turned to mush. That was until this week rolled around.

Today, I had three meetings. And the most I usually have in one day is a big fat zero. I have about four projects on my plate right now and I usually have around one or two.

The one project I’m really proud of is an e-mail marketing campaign my boss had me put together. E-mail marketing was something I told my boss I was interested in learning more about – the process, the copy, the creative. It all intrigues me. I also like learning the analytics of it – how many people opened the e-mail, how many clicks did each link get – that stuff really gets me going. So my boss told me to put together an e-mail strategy for a current promotion we are running.

I went about my business and put together this fab PowerPoint and presented it to him last week under the assumption that he just wanted to see how I would do when presented with a real project. In other words, I thought I was putting together a fake presentation – something that was important but would never see the light of day.

Turns out I was wrong- oh so very wrong. My boss liked my ideas and told me to put together a timeline and get the ideas flowing. Since then I’ve been pulled into numerous strategy meetings, survey meetings, and my ideas are being circulated into a few of our merchant and member e-mails. Can we say ‘whoaaaa’?

I have to say even though the task of putting this all together is really daunting, I’m really excited to be able to call this project a brainchild of mine. And I can’t wait to see it through all the way to the end.

And it’s an added perk to be excited to go to work in the morning.

Hi Working Girls!

We hope all of you readers had a wonderful weekend/Easter/Passover! 

As most of you have probably noticed by now, Working Girl has gotten a little makeover. A while back, WG1 and I decided to try and take WG to a new level. What that actually means is for us to know and you to find out (soon!). The first step though was a new design – something a little more sleek, a little more professional, and a little less pink (which was hard for me to let go because it’s my all-time fave color).

A big thank you to Jess from Delicious Design who did our redesign – this is the second time we have used Jess and we cannot say more good things about her. If you’re looking for a designer who won’t charge you an arm and a leg for a design, we suggest you shoot her an e-mail. She is fab!   

Let us know what you think! We love it! 

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