Is “take this job and shove it” not creative enough for you? Try out some of these more outrageous ways to quit. – AOL
Are your coworkers making you fat? This might be a sign that that chick in accounting needs to cool it with her brownie-baking experiments. – Lemondrop
Sometimes a job is so precise it requires an animal to do it instead of a person. It helps that the animal is cuter and will not drink the last of the coffee. – Blisstree
Remember Eloise? She downgraded from life at the Plaza to working as an intern at Conde Nast. – McSweeney’s
Here are ten things that will help you survive office life. No, they’re not coffee and painkillers – they’re ways to get other people to do your work without realizing it and tips for making small talk with just about anyone. – Lifehacker
Prettier people get ahead at work. There’s actually a lot more to it than that, but that’s why this is a link roundup and not a whole separate article. – Newsweek
Downside of being an intern at a fashion magazine: you don’t get paid. Upside: sometimes you get to be in a photo shoot styled by the Creative Director. – Elle
I get a lot of reader email, and I love getting to hear from the people who read STA. Sometimes that mail makes me laugh at a boss’ total stupidity or get mad about a backstabbing coworker, but only once has an STA reader email made me cry.
Yesterday, I wrote a post praising Elle magazine advice columist E. Jean for offering an internship to a homeless but incredibly smart and qualified woman who wrote in asking for career advice. It turns out that the letter-writer didn’t know her letter had been published or that she’d been offered an internship – until she read about it here on Save the Assistants.
“B.” is a regular STA reader/commenter and has submitted some great post ideas in the past. Her blog, The Girls’ Guide to Homelessness, is an engaging and eye-opening read. I’m so proud of her and her new gig (she starts her internship on September 1) and hope she’s able to take advantage of this great new opportunity. Mazel tov, “B.”, and your new boss sounds like one awesome woman. I’m honored to have had even the smallest part in helping this happen.
It started as just another letter in the pile that Elle magazine advice columnist E. Jean gets every week. Like a lot of us lately, the letter-writer was coping with unemployment and asked E. Jean for help:
I’m currently homeless and living in a Wal-Mart parking lot. I’m educated, I have never done drugs, and I am not mentally ill. I have a strong employment history and am a career executive assistant. The instability sucks, but I’m rocking it as best as I can.
The rest of the letter recounted the story of the homeless young woman applying for a job and bombing the interview. Here’s what E. Jean had to say, after two paragraphs of useful and inspirational job search advice:
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Alec Baldwin, whom I’m probably required to love forever for his portrayal of head honcho Jack Donaghy on 30 Rock, has not had a serious longterm relationship since the end of his infamous marriage to Kim Basinger. That said, he’s rarely without a beautiful woman on his arm, and this time the woman is a pretty darn surprising one. Last week, Baldwin arrived at the premiere of his new movie Lymelife with Johanna Cox. If that name rings a bell, Joanna’s claim to fame is winning the Elle magazine reality show Stylista. She apparently works as a junior editor at the magazine, which was her prize from the show. She’s 29, and he’s 51. I don’t know if it was just a date or if it’s the beginning of something major, but my brain might have just exploded from the amount of assistant/boss stuff going on in this post.
Yesterday Tyra Banks announced a new reality show where aspiring fashion magazine editors competed for a job. We speculated that the show would be based around Elle, and we were right. Word on the street for awhile has been that editor Anne Slowey (who you may remember from the first season of Project Runway, where she was skinny and had white-blond hair and was kind of uptight) was jealous of colleague Nina Garcia’s fame as a PR judge and wanted a reality show of her own. Well, now she has one, even though she has to share it with Tyra. (And we all know how much Tyra likes to share.)
[Slowey is the fur-less one on the left.]
Considering how Anne Slowey treats her interns, this ought to be a hell of a show.
Tyra Banks may be annoying and kinda twitchy, but I have to give her props for creating a viable TV brand with America’s Next Top Model. Now, she’s teaming up with coproducer Ken Mok for a new show that will have aspiring fashion assistants competing for a job. The show, which will appear on the CW network in late spring or early summer, will feature aspiring fashion magazine editors creating pages for a mock publication and participating in group and team challenges. The show’s winner will get “a job in the fashion industry,” although it’s not clear exactly what that job will be.
Apparently, the show is looking for a real magazine to partner with. Maybe those rumors we’ve heard about an Elle magazine assistant reality show are going to pan out?
Interns at Teen Vogue get their own TV show. Interns at Elle? According to this Gawker post… instead of kisses, they get kicks. Here’s an excerpt from a letter Elle interns got chastizing their behavior (to be fair, some of this is probably warranted, albeit badly delivered):
Hi Guys,
There are a few really important things that I’d like to go over with all of you.
1. DON’T BE LATE
Interning at ELLE is an opportunity that a lot of people would kill for, and while it isn’t paid, it is a chance for you to learn a lot about magazines and your role is actually crucial to the work that we do. When you interview and accept this job, part of that includes coming in 3 days a week and being ON TIME at 9am. This past week many of you have been very late and that has put us in a terrible situation. We are shooting almost every single day until Christmas and we have important things that need to be done right away in the morning.
2. DON’T LEAVE EARLY
I came back from my shoot today in the afternoon and there were no interns to check in anything and we had a TON of things that came in for 2 different run-thru. I know this seems like a tedious task but it is probably the MOST important thing in the accessories dept. If you have a job, or school, Alexis needs to know well in advance your schedule. If you had previously committed to a certain schedule for the semester, please try not to change it in the middle.
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