I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.
I suppose we all share this pipe-dream of being able to reach out a hand and find anything at will; what is amazing is that we think that good filing could somehow make it comes true. On the contrary: putting a letter into a filing system is like releasing your ferret in the Hampton Court maze.
I've always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I've always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966.
Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.
I do not have very much office experience.
Frank liked administrative work and was good at it.
Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days.
In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically.
