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[quote=Anonymous]After you've finished with your work, walk around your work place or if you are limited by department, around your department.  Look for the people that are busiest.  Try to determine if there is something that you can do that will help them out.  I've seen an admin go by a financial person's desk and take a huge folder of purchase orders and file them in a certain order so that when the financial person had to work on that bit of accounting they didn't have to sort or sift through the pile to find everything.  Or take a pile of things that need to be scanned and scan them, and change the name of files to something meaningful, and burn all the files onto a CD and give it back to the person.  Then, they can copy it to their computer all done and ready to go.  Sometimes the tedious tasks that they need done you don't know how to do.  If that's the case, Google is your friend.  It's amazing what things are documented on-line.  Sometimes once you help them once or twice, if you do a good job, then when they are really swamped again, they'll remember you and call you to do something. I am a system administrator.  I'm the person that people come to with anything having to do with computers or office equipment when it doesn't work and they need to get it fixed.  It's basically my job to figure out how to keep everything running on the network.  If I don't know, I look it up and teach myself how to fix it.  Also random things get assigned to me because no one else knows how to do them.  Like the copier machine.  I've become the defacto copier repairman so that everyone comes to me before they call it in for servicing.  I learned where all of the doors, rollers, and parts work to unjam paper.  No one else was administering the voicemail and phone systems.  So, I downloaded the manuals for our phone system on-line and have become the voicemail administrator.  As one of those busy people, for the people who show initiative and some common sense and the ability to follow directions well and learn without having to ask me twice how to do the same thing, I'll take the time to teach that person how to do something that needs to be done regularly and they can take that over for me.  Be that person.[/quote]

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