Waiting for Gouda

I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned that one of my duties here at the front desk is to answer the telephone. Ha, I kid! Anyway, a lot of people in the business community apparently are so damned busy with very, very important work-type tasks that they cannot possibly free up either one of [...]

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One of my many duties here at the front desk is making travel arrangements for some members of the sales team who fly around the country, trying to get people to give us their money. In theory, this is a fairly simple procedure: they tell me where they want to go, I give them [...]

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One of my many job duties here at the front desk is, of course, to answer the telephone. As I am always looking for ways to be more efficient in the workplace, I have made it a practice to only do this when the phone is actually ringing. This seems to be working [...]

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One of my job duties here at the Front Desk was to greet visitors who come into the office. This was generally not a terrible difficult or time-consuming thing. But sometimes… sometimes…
Your typical office visitor fits into one of three categories.
First there is the person who just wanders in and is lost. [...]

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