Because it's allegedly "Administrative Professionals' Day," the folks at MediaBistro have put together a package of "seven things the kid getting your coffee can teach you." While we don't necessarily consider ourselves assistants, we are all subservient to our Managing Editor Choire Sicha, so we read the piece with some interest as to how it reflected his management style. We've pulled out the seven tips and, via the miracle of preserved IM transcripts, taken the measure of the manager. Results follow.

We couldn't put it better than the correspondent who forwarded this tribute to the hardworking folks at SumnerWorld: "Well this makes my permalance position all worthwhile. I'll think of how appreciated I am as I take my daily vitamins, praying I don't get sick and have to take an unpaid day off from work!"