Secretary

Secretary is a professional job title attributed to people whose duties involve the management and support of an office environment in an assisted capacity. The term is considered "old form" and is not widely used in modern parlance. Nowadays, secretaries prefer to be called Administrative Assistants, but they are still more than willing to accept flowers from the boss on Secretary's Day. Classical stereotypes would have you think that a secretary's job is to get the boss' coffee, pick-up his dry-cleaning and shop for a birthday gift for his wife while he's out at the strip club for a three-martini lunch. In truth, their jobs involve just a tad bit more than that. They usually have to coordinate the activities of other co-workers, order and maintain office supplies, make travel arrangements and keep the boss's calendar up-to-date.

In film

 * House of Dark Shadows: The character of Daphne Budd worked as the secretary for Elizabeth Collins Stoddard. Although her work involved the family's business interests, she actually worked out of the Collinwood estate.


 * Species: The character of Xavier Fitch from the 1995 sci-fi/horror movie Species had a secretary.