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A pragmatic look at how to excel in the non-hacker workforce
- pasbesoin 16y agoI think the secretaries part is dying off, but with regard to that: Instead of "taking them to lunch", try "treating them like people". Talk to them. Treat them as an equal -- certainly in terms of courtesy. Treat their requests with respect and respond in a timely and useful fashion. What secretaries are left often serve fairly high powered people. And those people (usually) don't keep idiots around and in control of their affairs. Finally, if you are doing it to "get ahead", forget it. Per the previous paragraph, they aren't idiots. And they don't like manipulation any more than the rest of us.