Sunday, July 23, 2006

"The Perfect Secretary"

"The perfect secretary should forget that she is a human being, and be the most completely efficient aid at all times and on all subjects. Her object is to coordinate with her employer's endeavor, and not make any intrusions which would be more likely to affect him as hurdles than as helps.
She should respond to his requirements exactly as a machine responds to the touch of a lever or accelerator . . ."

Emily Post's Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage; copyright 1945

2 comments:

Cranky Graciela said...

emily! we have the same template!
and these emily post quotes are hilarious.
-sasha

Anonymous said...

*grumph* I've been doing it all wrong.