Remember how Anna Wintour’s daughter, Columbia grad Bee Shaffer, just couldn’t find a job? Well, even though she has a degree in theater and wanted to stay out of mom’s publishing world, Bee has finally landed herself a gig – as the assistant to Ricky Van Veen, the editor in chief of College Humor. No word on whether Bee will actually have to run errands and get Van Veen’s coffee or if she’ll just get to be the “pretty girl” in Vimeo videos, but either way, she’s got something to put on her resume now. Congrats, Bee – and good move sticking with the internet instead of the ever-dying world of print publishing. And if you ever have any workplace horror stories you might want to send this way, I totally promise to keep your identity a secret.
Now, let’s just hope there are some jobs left for the rest of us.
I’ve had several receptionist jobs before, including one in college where I worked the front desk at the campus art museum (it was awesome, actually). But I’m pretty sure my experience was not as great as Cathy Naso’s. Naso got the chance to interview Andy Warhol when she was just a high school student in Brooklyn – that meeting led to her being hired on as one of the receptionists in his Factory after graduation. As a token of appreciation, Warhol gave her one of his paintings, a self-portrait. After holding onto it for more than forty years, Naso finally sold it at a Sotheby’s auction last weekend. The painting, which had been expected to sell in the $1 million range, 
Jenni Muro, Lindsay Lohan’s long-suffering assistant/manager (who reportedly finally quit this year) has been through a lot: she was there the night that Lindsay’s second assistant quit 
