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Every business has them. If job title accurately depicted job description, he/she would be bestowed with titles such as: The Peon, Grunt Work Guru or Menial Task Marshal. Out of necessity to fill the position, desire to remain on the good side of political correctness or sheer pity, however, businesses around the country and globe label these paper-pushing, bottom-dwellers as Administrative Assistant, Attendant, or – as my nametag here at AMG Creative reads – Project Manager. No matter the title and no matter the location he/she is always subordinate to everything/everyone and as scripture so elegantly put it, I AM.

My name is Justin Williams and I AM the new Project Manager at the most desirable advertising agency in the most desirable place to live in the US (according to Money Magazine). As in most entry level positions, there is little room for my strategic vision in the office and for good reason. It is 5:00 PM on Friday of my first full week and this is the first time that I have been able to put a full thought together deeper than, “Where is that file?”

Although I accept my position at the “bottom of the ladder” and am even grateful that my to-do-list can only pile so high (decisions weighted with any responsibility never stop here!), I have a voice too. And I want to be heard! Thus, I bring you ‘The View from the Bottom,’ a weekly/whenever-my-to-do-list-allows rant about the menial tasks and headaches that we subordinates encounter on our journey up the corporate ladder – shhh, not too loudly though, my boss is in the next room.

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