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Friendly people serving friendly people
A consultant: someone brought in to build a one-handled wheelbarrow.
schmoozes the customers, brings light and warmth to the
Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
The philanthropist can never forget classes and callings. He says, with a modest swagger, 'I have invited twenty-five factory hands to tea.' If he said 'I have invited twenty-five chartered accountants to tea,' everyone would see the humour of so simple a classification.
Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere and were doing a brisk trade. [Footnote: They always do, everywhere. No-one sees them arrive. The logical explaination is that the franchise includes the stall, the paper hat and a small gas-powered time machine.]
In any other job, they're truck drivers. In show-biz, they're Transportation Captains.
Although the typist has disappeared, her work has not: now you do it yourself ... Since most companies have reduced the managerial ranks, there are fewer and fewer bosses, so you become a manger, his boss, and his secretary all rolled into one.
Some people are in charge of pens who shouldn't be in charge of brooms.
We are overeducated pharmacy clerks (with doctorate degrees) answering the phone, running the cash register, ringing up donuts and dish soap while juggling 10 or more drug related issues per minute with our one technician yelling Override!
I do not rule Russia: ten thousand clerks do.
Stationer, that Riddlesden, the attorney, was a very knave.
You handle animals. You deal with people.
Electricians that like good health avoid the known biologically toxic very high powered electrical utility jobs.
People must work in unison.
...butcher, baker, fusion-reactor maker.
Asshole FBI agents that want to shoot Girl Scouts.
I want to get a job naming kitchen appliances. That seems easy; refrigerator, toaster, blender. You just say what the thing does and add "er".
When I was at college, I worked in a department store called Brit Home Stores, which is a pretty lackluster department store, selling clothes for middle-aged women. My job was to walk the floor and find anything that was damaged, take it to the store room and log it.
SALES SPECIALIST. CAN EAT BITTERNESS AND ENDURE HARDSHIP.
These are the cafeteria ladies. I call them Millie, Billie, and Tilly. I think they're part of a government program to get rid of the middle school population in this country, one lunch at a time.
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
Firefighter is one of the few jobs kind enough to warn me away by containing two words I'm not interested in, unlike the deceptive bookkeeper.
Wherefore in all great works are Clerks so much desired? Wherefore are Auditors so well-fed? What causeth Geometricians so highly to be enhaunsed? Why are Astronomers so greatly advanced? Because that by number such things they find, which else would farre excell mans minde.
Oh, I thought that this day and age you maybe would be known as bovine custodial officers.
They are my slaves [ books and papers ] and they must serve me as I please.
Customer is king.
I am his treasurer.
There is an army of waiters in this world.
Customer service. That is what it means.
Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.
Those that are above business.
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an odd-job detective agency with fuzzy lines of authority and responsibility.
I did quite a lot of menial jobs. I was a waiter, an inventory clerk touring round properties listing cups and saucers, and a laserquest marshal.
Bounty hunters these days - because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn't have to be a one-man-army-type guy who goes in and kicks a door down.
the Poor Men of Lyons,
There is a somewhat time-worn joke about people taking up library work because they like to read : the joke consisting of the fact that librarians have so little time to read. But, I tell you, those who do not, and there are some, are in the wrong profession.
In order to function, the people who operate such a system of drawers must be reprogrammed to stop thinking as humans and to start thinking as clerks and accountants.
Oh, let us love our occupations,
Bless the squire and his relations,
Live upon our daily rations,
And always know our proper stations.
I was a blueberry picker, bindery worker, bookstore clerk and later manager, and a Realtor.
Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of men's watch upon the world and on themselves.
A first class professional nutcracker who might have done a job about a week ago; stolen some bells.
In life, we do not give employees enough leeway. If you look around Semco's office, there are plenty of empty desks. The question is - where are these people? I do not have the slightest idea, but I am not interested.
You're the healing janitor dude."
"Groundskeeper."
"Isn't that like a janitor?"
"No, it's like a groundskeeper.
The two oldest professions in the world - ruined by amateurs.
I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company.
Executive assistant. "Mrs. Albrecht, how are you today?" "Very well. I just got here and thought maybe I had missed you." "Nope. I just got here too." "Come in, please." The house had a two-story entry area
Sterling Maids clean up with some sexy fun.
When narratives fracture, when words fail, I take consolation from the part of my life that always works: the stationery order. The mail-order stationery people supply every need from royal blue Quink to a dazzling variety of portable hard drives.
Irrigators channel waters; fletchers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; the wise master themselves.
First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ... ? Then you serve machines.
In the department of--but it is better not to mention the department. There is nothing more irritable than departments, regiments, courts of justice, and, in a word, every branch of public service.
Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe,With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?
I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.
They are a special breed-like normal accountants, but without the soppy sentimentality. These are the oncologists of market capitalism.
The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
THE RESIDENT PATIENT
In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.
Up and down the lanes, the last unevacuated townspeople wake, groan, sigh. Spinsters, prostitutes, men over sixty. Procrastinators, collaborators, disbelievers, drunks. Nuns of every order. The poor. The stubborn. The blind.
When I was young they used to call me 'The Foreman,' not because I was in charge but because I did the work of four men.
For my second novel, The Apothecary's Daughter, my editor encouraged me to think of another unusual profession for a woman to have. That led to the main character, Lilly Haswell, who finds herself doing the work of an apothecary at a time when it was illegal for women to do so.
As a writing man, or secretary, I have always felt charged with the safekeeping of all unexpected items of worldly and unworldly enchantment, as though I might be held personally responsible if even a small one were to be lost.
Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days.
Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.
I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this.
Sounds like a thankless job.
Sometimes the most important ones are.
A real estate closer. Oh, what's that? I'm a real estate opener. What is a real estate closer? You mean at the end where you've got to sign all those papers?
The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroker's shop, and my mother was a waitress, I moved into a middle-class world with a level of security they never knew.
Friend, the cleaning lady, the bank clerk. But be careful:
Cataloguing is an ancient profession; there are examples of such "ordainers of the universe" (as they were called by the Sumerians) among the oldest vestiges of libraries.
My medical students. Two cups of human misery in short white coats. One is male and the other one female, and they both have names. That's all I can ever remember about them.
Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise ... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.
My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.
prestidigitator,
I've got a very nice staff here. People with patience, you know, and good temper, and not too brainy, because if you have people who are brainy, they are bound to be very impatient.
No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
I'm a deputy sheriff.
But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!
sweeping out of shops, and the
General consultant to mankind.
Working with civilians, like this was that TV show about the wizard with the talking skull and the twatty name.
Offices are peculiar places and nobody is ever quite sure what happens in them, least of all the people who work there. But the day tends to begin with a morning meeting, in which everybody decides what they will fail to do for the rest of the day.
A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
She places the orders for cases of frozen meat, huge cans of wax beans. She makes sure they stay
You're not a receptionist!" Violet cried.
"I certainly am," Shirley said. "I'm a poor receptionist who lives all by herself, and who wants very much to raise children of her own. Three children, in fact: a smartypants little girl, a hypnotized little boy, and a buck-toothed baby.
If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.
Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk.
I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones.
With Dorothy hard at work, the
A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?
Monotonous and thankless as her job can be sometimes, she cheers at the thought of her coworkers - a dozen of them crammed into their little offices in the basement - all cleverly disguised as harmless geeks, all capable of saving the world if called upon.
She's efficient and well liked, but keeps to herself. Quiet. Which is a rare and commendable female trait, in my experience. She works harder than the other two clerks, but gets paid less.
It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.
Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.
I could be one if I wanted to, I'm just way too overqualified for a job that simple.
our first customer, a gray-haired woman in bifocals and
Be the Mick Jagger of the mailroom, the Warren Buffet of bookkeeping and the Bono of stapler selling.