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Things you might do at work
Bella has a job as a PA. Basically her role is to take charge of her boss, who is not a very
organised person, and make sure nothing goes wrong. She makes appointments for her boss
and she makes sure he keeps his appointments. She spends a lot of time answering the phone
and fielding telephone calls1 on his behalf. When her boss has to travel, she makes the
reservations for him. When her boss has to give a presentation, she makes all the preparations
that are required, including making photocopies of any papers that he needs. She arranges
meetings for him and she takes the minutes2 at the meetings. Bella is a very well-organised
person. She keeps a record of everything she does at work and sets herself targets. She does
her best to achieve her goals. Every morning she makes a list of everything she needs to do.
Today the first thing on her list is ‘Hand in my notice’3! But she’s not going to take early
retirement. She’s got a new job where she will be the boss and will have her own PA.
1 dealing with all the calls she can handle herself and only putting the most urgent ones through to her boss
2 keeps the official record of a meeting
3 resign, inform her boss she’s planning to stop working for him
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