Holier Than Thou

Understandably, vice chancellors and university presidents are important people. Since when are their secretaries as important? They don't fulfill the leadership role. They are assistants. The secretary to the vice chancellor at the university where we work, will call my dh every few days because it is apparently his job to go to the third floor and get her coffee cups. She calls him and says, "I have dirties up here. I also need cream and sugar." Her office is adjacent to the v.c. and they may be his cups, but is she too good to walk downstairs and ask us to wash her cups and refill her own condiments? Why is it our job to cater to her in this way? It's not as if my dh sits and waits by the phone all day for these people to tell him their needs. They get offended when he doesn't act the way they think he should.

Yesterday we had a catering for the university's president (he runs the main campus and the v.c. runs this campus where we work). It was a simple break with just muffins, coffee, soda and water for only 4 people. All of the people who do the grunt work were in a tizzy about this. How hard is it to supply that food? Why do people freak out over little things like that?

My dh and I already feel like the people we work for feel they are better than we are. We are just their servents. Hardly. We are employees, just as they are. They answer to someone too, but maybe not often enough.