Over the course of my not so glorious career, I have noticed that the higher up one goes in management, the less tedious work someone has to do in the office. Upper management doesn’t taking minutes at the weekly meeting, upper management doesn’t do market research and upper management rarely puts together the departmental presentation.
With that mind, I was recently wondering about how much menial office work the world’s most powerful CEO does in a given day. I know that US Presidents, regardless of their political leanings, work long hours and are tasked with making very difficult decisions about significant and wide-ranging issues.
But do you think the president ever has to make his own copies? Get his own coffee or soda? Clean his desk up before he starts his day because he rushed out of the office the night before to get a meeting? Go back and forth, like a dozen times, just trying to get a meeting scheduled with some of the members of his team?
Upper management sounds boring.
So I sit in a cubicle, of sorts, feet away from a copier.
I’m guessing this means I’m not exactly at the top of the ladder.
(sigh)
I still say the peons have the most fun.