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*In Yiddish, an "Arbeter" is a worker
Marjorie Gottlieb Wolfe
Syosset, New York
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There are more than 41 "milyon" secretaries and administrative assistants working in the United States, according to U. S. Dept. of Labor Statistics. Administrative Professionals Week (formerly Professional Secretaries Week/ Professional Secretaries Day) is celebrated from April 24 - 30. This poem is dedicated to them.
I counsel the excessed, the returnee, and the "recycled," the "silent akhtsik" (80) percent" who type our letters and file papers.
I counsel the women office workers, the Nine to Fivers, who believe that a secretary's pad is to write in, not spend "di nakht" in.
I counsel the amanuensis who
copies what another dictated:
gobbledygook, officialese, federalize
and pentagonese.
I empathize with the movement from Honey to Money.
I empathize with the cute "yung" chicks and the "vays-kolner" (white collar) worker: a desk jockey.
I counsel the "gliklekh" (happy) office people, too: the Joy Polloi, the G/G Friday--the Person Friday, and the secretary drowning in the typing pool.
I empathize with the recipient of secretarial jokes: "Today is Administrative Professionals Week.
Take yours to lunch--take mine, too."
I counsel those being replaced by office robots (AKA "Robot Redford" and Humphrey Robot).
I've seen the future...and it glows.
I counsel the "Certified Professional Secretaries" in their office landscaped, partitioned non-windowed offices, climbing "der layter" (the ladder) so s-l-o-w-l-y.
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