Save the Assistants officially comes out in book form next week! I’m excited to partner with the website Sorting With Style to offer a giveaway to a lucky STA reader.
Sorting With Style, who makes cute office supplies that I lust over, has kindly donated some stuff from their website. The winner of the giveaway will get an autographed copy of “Save the Assistants” as well as a swag bag from SWS. I won’t tell you all the cool stuff in it, but it includes:
How can you win? Send me your best (by which I mean “worst,” of course) office horror story. Your very best. Like, the one you’ve been holding on to all this time just in case of an event like this.
You can email your story to ashleylilit@gmail.com, do not leave it as a comment on the site. Put “STA Book Giveaway” as the subject line, and please keep stories under 800 words. They must be submitted by noon EST on Monday, August 30. I’ll announce the winner later that day. Good luck!
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April 21, 2010 in
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Happy Administrative Professionals’ Day! Or, as your boss still calls it, Secretaries’ Day. If your company didn’t get you anything, have no fear. STA is partnering with DYMO to get you a gift of your own. 50 – yeah, fifty, like five with a zero after it – STA readers will win the LabelManager 260P (see photo, this thing is rad) and a $10 gift card to Starbucks. In order to enter, all you have to do is leave a comment on this post answering the question “What is your daily office lifesaver?” Be creative! STA and DYMO will choose the winners. Responses must be posted by midnight EST on April 26th in order to be entered for a chance to win.
And as if free stuff isn’t awesome enough, DYMO is doing a special code for STA readers who’d like to get a labelmaker from their site. The promo code for 25% off a LabelWriter 450 Twin Turbo is STA2010 and it expires on April 30th.
Full disclosure: This is a sponsored post, which means that DYMO is compensating me for running it. Sadly, they are not paying me in labelmakers, just money.
Justin Timberlake isn’t content just to do music – he and Trace Ayala have a clothing line called William Rast, he’s a popular guest host on Saturday Night Live, and now he’s launching his own line of tequila, 901 Silver. But when a guy has so man projects going on, how will he find time to run his own company? Timberlake has put out an ad seeking an “Executive Vice President of Big Ideas” for 901. Perks include a $25,000 signing bonus, a VIP trip to Las Vegas, and “the opportunity to possibly get coffee for other 901 employees” (read the fine print, people).
To enter, you need to make a video pitching a “Big Idea.” Check out the entry form for more info.
Former Fugees member Wyclef Jean stopped by MTV’s New York studio recently to promote a new contest. He has 10 aspiring musicians remixing versions of his latest single, “More Bottles,” and is posting them all on his official website so that fans can vote on which one they like the best. However, while he was at MTV to promote one contest, he ended up starting another one. An MTV intern named Josh Rosenstrauch challenged the musician to a push-up competition. Not only did Clef accept, he’s upping the ante. During the taping of one of the remixes, he announced:
Josh from MTV, push-up competition, we’re gonna do it at the Nokia Theater, so I can embarrass you in front of everybody. No less than 100 push-ups. I know you’re a young man, so you will be facing the old man. Wax on, wax off.
Is there a day set yet? Because I’m happy to pop over to the Nokia Theater and record this for posterity.
Remember the contest that Australia’s tourism board held to win “the best job ever“? The job was spending half a year living on scenic Hamilton Island off the Great Barrier Reef, writing a blog about it, and earning £75,000 in the process? Well, I’m coping with the disappointment of not landing the gig myself, because it seems like it went to a pretty worthy candidate.
Britain’s Ben Southall, 34, (pictured, while on a trip to Africa) has landed the coveted job. His “uniform” – a wet suit and snorkel – just arrived in the mail. He has a degree in science and has spent the last few years working as a charity events manager and fundraiser. In addition to the free housing, golf cart, and other amenities on the island, Ben is bringing his long-distance girlfriend, who lives in Vancouver, to the island with him so they can be together. Everybody all together now: awww.
He beat out 35,000 other applicants to land the coveted spot. You can see a video of Ben talking about his new job, which starts July 1, here.
Yesterday, we interviewed career maven Alexandra Levit. She has graciously agreed to let us give away four copies of her book How’d You Score That Gig? If you want to be entered to win, send an email to contact@savetheassistants.com with “How’d You Score That Gig?” as the subject line. Entries must be received by noon EST next Tuesday, June 24. Cute comments in the body of the email are not required, but always much appreciated. Please note that if you have won a giveaway before you are not eligible–let’s give some other beleaguered assistants a chance.
Since we got some questions after our latest giveaway, here’s how the fancy-schmancy system works: after all the entries are collected, we literally print them out and put them in a hat. Seriously. It’s that low-fi around here. Anyway, we then notify winners within the next 24 hours and send books out as soon as we can. And now you’ve seen the chick behind the curtain.
As promised, we have five copies of The Hollywood Assistants Handbook to give away to STA readers. To enter, simply send an email to contact@savetheassistants.com with “Hollywood Assistants Handbook” as the subject line. We’ll take entries until Monday, June 16 at noon EST. For more on the book, check out our interview with authors Peter Nowalk and Hillary Stamm here.
So, you may have heard that there’s a movie coming out this weekend called Sex and the City. You may have also heard that there’s an assistant in it. STA is looking for an intrepid moviegoer who wants to watch the movie this weekend and do a review of the movie, focusing on Jennifer Hudson’s character (the assistant).
If you want to get an idea of what an STA guest post is like, take a look at this review of Gwyneth Paltrow as Pepper Potts in Iron Man.
If you’re already planning to see the movie this weekend, send us your review before noon EST on Monday, June 2. We’ll pick our favorite review and run it on the site. Thanks in advance, and happy Sexing.
As promised earlier, STA has three copies of Megan Hustad’s book How to Be Useful to give away. In order to throw your name into the hat, send an email to contact@savetheassistants.com with “How to Be Useful” as the subject line. You have until noon EST on Friday, May 30 to enter.
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January 24, 2008 in
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What’s your mantra? Do you have a thing that you repeat over and over in your head or under your breath when you’re coping with a stressful situation at work? Ashley’s is “I will not harbor ill feelings, I will not harbor negative thoughts.” However, I don’t have one–and could seriously use one. And I don’t think repeatedly whispering “fuck this shit” counts as a mantra. Post your suggestions in the comments.
