Four Secretaries and Their Jobs
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Four Secretaries and Their Jobs
Four classmates from a Chinese college all took jobs as secretaries after graduation. Five years later they had a reunion and discussed their jobs.
Kate Chen and Sandy Dai both work for a Finnish company in Shanghai. Kate is secretary to the Finn general manager, and Sandy is secretary to the Chinese local supervisor, a position only slightly lower than that of the Finn manager.
Lena Zhang was hired as the secretary to the leader of a small government bureau in the capital city of her home province. Christina Lu works for a state run enterprise in the same city where she was hired as the secretary to the manager for international trade. The company has never conducted business abroad so this office is new to the company.
Five years later Kate Chen is satisfied with her job but Sandy Dai is not. The Finn manager receives orders from the company’s home office in Finland and he gives orders to those below him, including his secretary Kate. He tells her how he wants his time scheduled and she then makes appointments for him according to his instructions. She translates memos and other documents and interprets from Chinese to English and English to Chinese. If the manager does not like her work, he tells her right away. He is very demanding, but Kate feels that she knows what her duties are and knows what her manger expects. She is confident that she is doing a good job.
Sandy Dai often does not have as much work as Kate Chen does, because her boss schedules his own appointments and does a lot of the office paperwork himself. When he is out of town, she has time to study for the graduate entrance exam. However, she is not sure whether or not she is doing a good job. Her manager tells her what she is expected day by day. When people call or come to the office to see her boss, she greets them, takes their messages as well as their questions and requests and passes them on to her manager. Sandy thinks of her job as doing what her...
Four classmates from a Chinese college all took jobs as secretaries after graduation. Five years later they had a reunion and discussed their jobs.
Kate Chen and Sandy Dai both work for a Finnish company in Shanghai. Kate is secretary to the Finn general manager, and Sandy is secretary to the Chinese local supervisor, a position only slightly lower than that of the Finn manager.
Lena Zhang was hired as the secretary to the leader of a small government bureau in the capital city of her home province. Christina Lu works for a state run enterprise in the same city where she was hired as the secretary to the manager for international trade. The company has never conducted business abroad so this office is new to the company.
Five years later Kate Chen is satisfied with her job but Sandy Dai is not. The Finn manager receives orders from the company’s home office in Finland and he gives orders to those below him, including his secretary Kate. He tells her how he wants his time scheduled and she then makes appointments for him according to his instructions. She translates memos and other documents and interprets from Chinese to English and English to Chinese. If the manager does not like her work, he tells her right away. He is very demanding, but Kate feels that she knows what her duties are and knows what her manger expects. She is confident that she is doing a good job.
Sandy Dai often does not have as much work as Kate Chen does, because her boss schedules his own appointments and does a lot of the office paperwork himself. When he is out of town, she has time to study for the graduate entrance exam. However, she is not sure whether or not she is doing a good job. Her manager tells her what she is expected day by day. When people call or come to the office to see her boss, she greets them, takes their messages as well as their questions and requests and passes them on to her manager. Sandy thinks of her job as doing what her...