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All posts tagged

receptionists

April 25, 2018

Alternative Names for Administrative Professionals’ Day

by Patty Terhune
November 11, 2014

Passive-Aggressive Etiquette Tips for the Typical Office

by Elizabeth Green
August 26, 2011

Interviews With People Who Have Interesting or Unusual Jobs: Andrea’s Boyfriend Hated That She Worked at the DMV

by Suzanne Yeagley
January 9, 2009

Dan Liebert, Verbal Cartoonist: Her Big Phony Act

by Dan Liebert
November 3, 2005

Interviews With People Who Have Interesting or Unusual Jobs: Screaming at the Dentist With Wendy K

by Suzanne Yeagley
June 4, 2002

Notes That Jenny, the Receptionist at the Office Where I Clean, Has Left for Me, and a Few Notes I Left For Her

by Philip Toalston

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September 22, 2022

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

by Colin Nissan
September 20, 2022

Should I Bring Anything to the Dinner Tonight or Just My Crippling Anxiety?

by Alexis Pooley
September 15, 2022

We Are a Picturesque Small Town and We Refuse to Be the Setting for Your Romantic Comedy

by Rachel Mans McKenny
September 21, 2022

An Open Letter to Bluey’s Parents: Please Stop

by Kate Allen Fox

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