I liked her, but I warned her that she needed to tone it down because every time an executive’s wife walked in, the wife saw competition. Young Thang told me I didn’t know what I was talking about, but when it came time to lay off one of the receptionists, she was the one who was let go. I don’t know what went into the decision, but you don’t want to be on the SVP’s wife’s bad list.

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I told both her and several of the doctors more than once that if she kept it up, one of those patients was going to eventually snap and go for her, right through that little opaque glass window she constantly slammed shut on them.

Eventually, that’s exactly what happened. And when she sued the practice for negligence as a result, I was one of about dozen people who testified against her. But frankly, I’m not sure why the practice was stupid enough to have kept her around in the first place. (They ultimately settled out of court.)

This lady (Can I call her that? without be sarcastic?) used to go out into the parking lot in full view of everyone, especially clients coming to our location, then proceed to hike her skirt WAY UP because she wanted to get as much of tan as possible. I heard that one could see more than “London or France.”

She also used to send via email her “poetry” to everyone in the company. She was asked on several occasions to stop with all this nonsense. Her refusal to stop with the poetry was the reason the company finally let her go after several weeks.

But, otherwise her receptionist skills were good.

In the late 80s, we had a receptionist whose command of standard English was tenuous at best. For a couple thousand dollars a year more, we could have gotten someone who actually sounded polished and professional. And, incidentally, might have gotten our phone messages right and when she typed letters, might have matched the name on the address to the salutation.

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