“I dreaded this day every year and felt humiliated every single time.”
, she spotlights themes from her inbox that help explain the modern workplace and how we could be navigating it better.The day, originally called Secretary’s Day, was started by the International Association of Administrative Professionals with excellent intentions: to draw attention to the need for administrative support staff to be paid fairly and given training and development opportunities. But that’s not what has happened.
Other professions have celebratory “days” as well—there’s National IT Professionals Day, Business Analysis Day, International Actuaries Day, and plenty more—but none are so widely observed as this one is, and none seem to make the people supposedly being honored feel soIt’s also heavily gendered, as the flowers and trinkets make clear.
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