A former PA has exposed the most outrageous tasks her employers have asked her to undertake in a no-holds-barred tome.
After toiling away as a Hollywood assistant, Lydia Whitlock is exposing the dark side of what is often touted as a glamorous career.
But instead of a tell-all, Whitlock is exposing bosses outrageous demands with a series of pledges to her future assistant with her book, To My Assistant: Things I’ll Never Do to You, But Many Other Crazy Bosses Will.
In it she tells her future PAs that she will never have them wait for the cable guy, schedule her dates, or monitor her workouts.
Whitlock penned the book as an adaptation of her two-year running blog, Tomyassistant.com and told the Daily Mail all of the anecdotes are based on first-hand experiences.
She said she decided to take this approach to hide her boss’ identities because she “didn’t want to reflect poorly on them” – although she has now found herself on the blacklist.
She hopes that her book will let assistants know they are not alone and help people in dire moods “laugh about how another person’s day could be so much worse than yours”.
Here are some of things Whitlock would never ask her assistant to do:
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