I've been an admin, in one way or another, for about five years now. Five years of filing, typing coorespondense, waiting in lines at the office supply store, answering phones, playing tech support and so on. Five years of getting coffees and setting appointments and meeting with clients on behalf of boss person. Five years of miracle working and pulling rabbits out of very deep hats and so on.

In those five years, the following has become obvious:

1) No matter how many years the employer spent in school, they still do not know how to forward an attachment.
2) The boss has no idea where the mail drop box is located in their office building, nor do they know where the nearest mailbox is should there be no mail drop box in the office.
3) They can't be trusted with keys. They will lose them.
4)They have an allergy to sitting on their office chair and will avoid it at all costs. Often times this means not showing up to work and when they do, they stay out of their office, often finding a spot in another room far, far away. At that point, no real work will be done.
5) They don't understand calenders. Its like Greek to them ( or Aramaic should you boss actually know Greek). Seeing that there is an event planned at 12:30 on a Friday does not compute to there actually being something they need to worry about at 12:30 on Friday. Its just words on paper. Nothing more.

I would like to say its just my current employer, but alas, these five things seem to be universal in people that eventually hire an admin. Sure they hire the admin to do the above tasks, to be sure the keys are where they are supposed to be and that they are reminded repeatedly that that 12:30 meeting on Friday is an important one and that they should not be out shopping for new bags at that time. Thats the job of an admin, but on the rare occasion that the admin is out for anything, the above five will be the downfall of all of the hard work the admin has done. Files are lost, computers are acting strange, and keys....well they are just gone. The happy admin will structure the day around tackeling their usual tasts plus catching up on things from their absense and by the end of the day, should have gotten through it just fine. The angry admin, on the other hand, will do exactly what the happy admin would do, often with the same results. The difference is that while the angry admin is slaving away reorganizing the same client file for the tenth time, she will be doing it with spunk and sass, to the delight of the co-workers, who share in the pain.

This is how the angry admin makes friends. Companionship through anger.