Word: receptionist
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...other employees at the foundation will be promoted, a third employee will take on expanded responsibilities, and a new receptionist position will be created...
...like many an American reality-show subject, he's really a boor trying to impress the cameras. Introducing receptionist Pam (Jenna Fischer), Scott compliments her thusly: "Pam has been with us for--forever. Righty, Pam? You think she's cute now, you should have seen her a couple years ago! Rrawrr!" Her response--a fleeting "Wha?"--is one of many priceless moments in a comedy of subtle background reactions and self-delusions. In his office, Scott shows the off-camera interviewer his World's Best Boss coffee mug. "I think that pretty much sums it up. [Pause.] I found...
...Federal Government to enter the living rooms of unwed, low-income couples and ask a loaded question. "You know which question I'm talking about," Faverey says to Lamont Sims and Stephanie Bryant, who live and work in Delaware Terrace, he in the maintenance department, she as a receptionist. They have dated for 2 1/2 years. Sims, 31, nods. "Lately, I'm discussing it on my own, 'cause I don't know what page she's on," he says. Resting his chin in his hand, Sims turns to Bryant, 30, who cradles their infant son, Stephan, in her arms...
...they trawl southern China's gritty manufacturing towns, weary apparel buyers from companies like Polo Ralph Lauren and Liz Claiborne find an unexpected oasis at Building No. 15 of the Luen Thai clothing-manufacturing compound in Dongguan, Guangdong province. There, the visitors are greeted by a neatly uniformed, smiling receptionist who directs them to any of 337 guest rooms?or they can stop by the library, fitness center, Internet caf?, restaurant, cinema or one of the four zebra-skin-motif karaoke rooms. Belying its unimaginative name, Building No. 15 is actually a private, full-service hotel, opened last April...
...seasons (available on DVD) introduced us to the dreary cubicles of the Wernham Hogg paper company in Slough, England, through the framing device of a BBC documentary. The finale revisits the characters three years later to find that receptionist Dawn (Lucy Davis), who previously rejected Tim's last-minute confession of love for fear of upsetting her life plans, has moved with her lunkish fiancé to Florida. (The drudgery of routine, and the terror of changing it, is the show's constant theme.) Meanwhile, the power-hungry pip-squeak Gareth (Mackenzie Crook) is now office manager, having replaced the boorish...