The Office Staff

Preface: I love our head secretary. She's helpful, sweet, good-natured, hard working, and rare.

She was out recently, however, so the only office staff that we officially had was a woman who is her antithesis, someone who's been known to make out with her boyfriend in the hallway, and student aids.

One day, a teacher discovered that two students, one of whom had been busted with pot recently, were the only people in the office. There was no principal, no vice principal, no counselor, no attendance clerk, and no receptionist. No. One. Just these two girls. And the one girl should have been suspended. Instead, she's left to hang out in the office. They had been left alone in there for at least fifteen minutes. Personnel files. Phone access. Computer access. Confiscated items...

Plus, we do not have a list of teachers' extensions, so if we need a particular staff member, we have to rely on the office to connect us to them. Calling the office is nearly impossible. The phones automatically pick up when we call, and we have to stand there and sing into the phone, hoping someone notices that we're on the line. A great thing to have to do in the case of an emergency, don't you think?