So, the temp agency sent me to an office downtown. I guess it didn't matter what kind of office, I was basically assigned to do light clerical work; typing and filing. I don't mind this kind of work. I just moved to this town and had not been here long enough to pursue a full-time job. I was still scoping out the opportunities and neighborhoods but needed to make some money in the meantime. Temp work suited me just fine for now.
My smaller desk was just behind the larger receptionist desk. Apparently, my assignment was to help her catch up. She had been on vacation. Someone had been hired to man her desk, but only that. Her worked just piled up and she needed to get a handle on the backlog.
She was sorting through all her stacks of papers spilling out of her in-box that laid between us on her desk. She sorted through her stack of papers piling them in shorter stacks. As each reached to about a quarter inch high, she would slap a sticky-note on the top page with a name directing me to whom it should be delivered.
The first addressee was just around the corner from reception. I confirmed I was in the right place and put the stack of papers in the secretary's inbox.
The next delivery went to a guy who had no secretary but did have an inbox. His desk was on the other side of the office.
Next, she had me photocopy a sheet of announcements and insert one sheet into every mailbox in the mail room.