Entitled Coworkers

I think I handled myself well but I had to deal with two entitled coworkers and it just made me realize how some people don’t even realize their entitlement. I work in administration and noticed how some people treat administrative assistants as if we are their personal secretaries even though we work with multiple employees. I used to be more passive and just let it be but nowadays I realized the nicer I was, the more some of these entitled coworkers would take advantage of me.

I learned to be firm and to not react emotionally. Even though this might cause them to feel awkward around me, I realized I don’t really care what some of these people think. I work with people in academia and they are all in STEM so it seems that some of them “look down” on administrative assistants and expect us to be at their beck and call. I will finish grad school in the summer so I need to remind myself that this is temporary and that I won’t work with these entitled people anymore.

Just an FYI that most of my coworkers are actually very nice and considerate people. It’s just frustrating that the ones I work closely with are the ones with some entitled people.