Why Administrative Professionals Day?

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Posted by tribeofa | Posted in Admin Life | | Posted on 04-22-2009

 

Do you sometimes wonder–or get asked–why your role should be recognized with a day while other hard-working people settle for a mere paycheck? Do you get a little embarrassed by it? Well, de-blush.

Admins perform services that are personal and beyond job descriptions. We have historically been treated with condescension and often with outright contempt. It has been a role of unrecognized importance and skills.

What was originally called Secretaries’ Day was created in an attempt to raise the public–especially managers’–consciousness about the role, and it has been somewhat successful. If nothing else, teammates are called upon to recognize the amount of work that has been done on their behalf; that alone makes it worth the effort to recognize the day.

Don’t forget the other opportunity inherent in AP Day: thank your fellow toilers! Who helped you set up that meeting with Mr. I’m Too Important for Meetings? Who helped you decode the evil PowerPoint that froze five minutes before the board meeting? Who made you shine? Our peers can do for us what we do for our managers.

So go forth and demand–and pay–tribute. Florists and Hallmark adore us.

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