things to do for halloween

Halloween is a time for celebrating horror, right? Here are some ideas to help you celebrate the horror that is your assistant job…

1. Dress up like your favorite celebrity assistant. Some ideas to get you started:

• Naomi Campbell’s assistant: Tape a cell phone to your head to mark the spot that she threw it at you. Top it off with a nice footprint on your backside.
• Britney Spears’ assistant: Just look haggard and have your resignation letter in your back pocket.
• Diddy’s assistant: Look fly and perhaps carry around an ambiguously masculine parasol. Or even a cheesecake.

2. Play a practical joke on your boss. For example, put a mousetrap (or real mouse) in their desk drawer or hang a noose in their doorway. Too macabre? Replace their Xanax with Skittles. Or Exlax (you know you want to).

3. Suggest dressing up in a tandem costume with your boss. You can be Anne Hathaway and she can be Meryl Streep. Unless your boss is a “he”, in which case you should go the “Wall Street” route.

4. Eat too much candy and call in sick. You could call this a “dental health day” as opposed to a “mental health day“. (Har, har… ahem.)

5. Turn off all the lights, get a bag of microwave popcorn and read our horror stories.

Happy Halloween!