My list is actually influenced by a similar list based how the IT industry. However, it’s a great list and though I would add my own since I’ve worked in a position that can be just as stressful and sometimes the worst job to hold in a company. Administrative & Executive Assistance. I have worked with some wonderful people who have truly inspired me. However, I’ve also worked with their evil opposites.

Ways to make your Administrative Assistant & Executive Assistance quit

• Give your Assistant an abundance of projects with tight deadlines so that she / he must work 60 hour week and than go home on time and don’t come in on the weekends.

• Pay your Assistant a salary, this way you won’t have to pay overtime as you would for hourly employees.

• Tell your Assistant that the project isn’t really a big deal but that you don’t have the time to fit it into your schedule. The next day after they have begun working on it, tell them it’s become a priority with the CEO and has to be done in a ridiculous amount of time meeting CEO standards with a budget that can not accommodate the standards.

• Ask you’re Assistant several times for information about the project that you’ve already asked for… such as how much is that going to cost? Can they lower their price (after the company already lowered it twice as a favor to the Assistant) and a personal favorite Can this be changed? Make sure the change is something that will effect the entire project.

• Ask your Assistant to gather creative original ideas wit pricing and samples for marketing free give-aways and than use only the standard free pens and note pads.

• Ask your Assistant to come in early so the two of you can brainstorm ideas and than arrive half an hour after the time you usually get there.

• Always take sides in disputes instead of moderating.

• Go to expensive lunches with the CEO and Sales Representatives bragging about al the great progress YOU have made on the project.

• In meetings (with your Assistant present) ask for opinions from other staff members why they felt the project failed or didn’t do as well. Every time an opinion comes up that your Assistant offered during the creation of the project that you didn’t implement say “Hey that’s a great idea, we’ll have to do that next time”.

• Hire a manager that has an addiction to something and is never in the office and when he / she are in the office they don’t make any logical sense on “Executive” decisions.

• Play favorism towards an employee who does only half the work as your Assistant and is always late returning from their manicure / pedicure appointment.

• Make promises customers and than ask your Assistant to make them happen. When the promises can not be fulfilled blame the assistant and tell the customer it was a manufacture’s error. Especially if your Assistant and the manufacture and your Assistant is on good terms.

• Hire your friends in supervisor type positions and allow them the benefits of managers and spend corporate money on Happy Hour breaks. Than tell your Assistant that there’s no money in the budget to allow her / him a few days off because they really need product M done by {requested day off}.

• Hire an Assistant for your Assistance who has absolutely no job skills whatsoever and but is super cute with a great pair job qualifications.

• Never cross train anybody on anything. The skills they walked in with are the skills they are leaving with. This way your Assistant will feel they can never take off more than a day or two.

• Justify not giving raises because they latest company product didn’t sell as well as they needed it to. Make sure the project was largely handled by your Assistant and includes ideas / marketing strategies that you didn’t implement.

• When your Assistant comes to you with a problem, act concerned but do nothing. This works great if your Assistant is being harassed or utterly annoyed by anther co worker. Don’t let it go too far though…drag it out until you have to take action.

• Create a desk cleanliness policy and than give your Assistant a meaningless task that involves at last 20 different file folders.

• Mandate that women must wear business casual shoes that are not open toes and look business appropriate but tell men its fine if they wear tennis shoes.

• Send employees lots of chain letters, poems and other crap spam when they are hard at work and than make jokes about how employees do nothing but read junk mail al day.

• Blame everything on the CEO because no one will ever tell him / her about it because the CEO is a tyrant, never reachable or always turns the table by saying something like “instead of being part of the problem be part of the solution – give me solutions not problems”.

• Make it mandatory that your Assistant must have a cell phone and be reachable at all times. Than use only their cell phone to contact them and tell them that cell phone charges are not reimbursed.

• Restrict all office calls to a 5 mile local radius and than continually ask them why they haven’t called client XXX back that is located 12 miles away.

• Ask your Assistant to call upset clients & customers to inform them that they will receive a refund, repairs or replacements and than make customers and clients wait for days even weeks for refunds, repairs or replaces and refuse to speak to them when they call.

• Give your Assistant a keyboard with keys that stick.

• Ask your Assistant where she / he were if they are late or if the went to the restroom or just took a 5 minute break.

• Tell your Assistant that because they’re salary they on call 24 / 7

• Tell customers and clients to call your Assistant about items that he / she have absolutely no information on.

• Buy the team lunch and always forget that Vegan in the corner...he'll come around. (provided by dumb little man blog)

• Ask your Assistant for suggestions on how to make the office run more smoothly and than never implement any of the ideas.

• Smoke or eat bad smelling food in your Assistance cubical. Works especially well if your Assistance isn’t a smoker. Or wear cheap perfume / cologne.

• Go on vacation to some exotic or extravagant country and send your Assistant photos of you having a great time.