Who would have thought....

As I sit here at the front desk, filling in for Jill (who's gone to Nashville), I realized that I would not make a good secretary. People just assume that answering the phones and and paging people on the intercom is easy... well, I'm here to tell you otherwise. This stuff is hard. So far (it's 12:49 and I've only been up here for an hour) I've hung up on 6 people, transferred 2 calls to the wrong line, been asked for directions (which I'm terrible with) and quite possibly gotten someone lost. I don't understand the complexity of this switchboard (who knew that the DCS office phones could have so many lines!). Anyway, I've got a new found appreciation for the secretaries. If you have a secretary at your job, you should really buy them a cup of coffee and tell them thank you sometime. Sheesh!!