Conference turris::womannotes-v1

697.0. "Need help starting new notesfile for secretaries" by SUPER::HENDRICKS (The only way out is through) Tue Feb 02 1988 13:16

    I would like some help from anyone in this conference who is a
    secretary, has been a secretary, or has thoughts about being a
    secretary.
    
    With 2 other women, I've started a new notesfile for secretaries
    at DEC. I felt there was a need for secretaries to have an opportunity
    to create a network with people beyond those they see everyday,
    and to share support, ideas, and resources with one another.  I've
    also heard several wage class 2 women say that the general tone
    of this conference (Womannotes) does not always reflect their
    experience, and that concerns me.
    
    I put in 10 basenotes, and Gloria Eno (who has been wonderful in
    passing the word) put in another.  I am not currently a secretary,
    though, and I cannot 'seed' this conference as fully as I have other
    conferences I started.  As a result of Gloria notifying people,
    about 30 secretaries have written to me for information about the
    conference and about using notes.  I have been sending it to them,
    but I would also like there to be many more interesting notes in
    the conference before I announce it in Easynet_conferences.
                                     
    I think that people new to notes are understandably shy about writing
    in a new, fairly empty conference.
    
    Since we have some of the most articulate noters in Digital here,
    I would like to ask you to add the conference to your notebook and
    enter a response or a basenote if you have an interest in this area.
                                            
    Press keypad 7 to add the DEC_SECRETARY conference to your notebook
    if you are willing to help out.
    
    Thank you.
    
    Holly

    For those of you who don't like the keypad 7 method, the file spec
    for the new conference is:
    
    colors::saturn:[tarbet.notes]dec_secretary.note
    
    (yes, it's sharing the disk that womannotes is on, thanks to maggie...)
    

    (Well, that ain't quite true...=womannotes= lives on the NOTES pack,
    which is where =dec_secretary= will move to just as soon as you
    all start writing good stuff to it.)
    
    I hope somebody will advertise =womannotes= in there!  I mean, fair's
    fair, right?
    
    						=maggie

    A member of our community just wrote to me expressing concern that
    creating this new file would be seen as a 'separatist' move, and
    that women with secretarial jobs might think that they were being
    excluded in some way from Womannotes.  
    
    I wanted to take the opportunity to reiterate that the new file
    as intended as a job related resource, and has no direct relationship
    to Womannotes other than living on the same cluster.
    
    Holly

For the record, may I point out that, in my 15 years at Dec, I've
had three male secretaries.

One of them revealed the hitherto well-kept secret that the petty cash
line is a great place to meet interesting women.

Martin.

    I'm not a regular reader of that file, so please post my basenote
    there if you'd like.
    
    When I post it in Easynet_conferences, it should be clear that it's
    there for all secretaries, male or female.
    
    Holly