Administration
“I love doing administrative work! I only wish our company could produce more quality compliance videos for me to watch”, says an SE…NEVER! In fact, if you were to ever hear one of your peer Sales Engineers (SEs) say something even remotely close to this statement, at that moment in time, just slowly close your laptop lid. Go ahead… take a deep cleansing breath, as clearly, the apocalypse is currently underway and alien lizard creatures are about to descend upon us from the sky!
Look, doing administrative tasks are not fun and not a top priority, but it is still important and therefore needs to be accomplished in the time frames established by corporate leadership. If you are not doing your administrative work in a timely manner, then I promise you that you are in fact an administrative burden to your boss. This is a bad way to damage your professional brand, as staying on top of expense reports and mandatory videos is merely a trivial...