CEO's PA

[gee4]

Things just get worse...

I have just had a PA blatantly lie to me and deny she saw an email I sent on Tuesday asking for a slot in one of her boss's diaries.  I put a read receipt on the email which she read 5 mins after I sent it. 

I chased it up this morning but instead of admitting she had done nothing about it, she has lied and said today was the first she had seen it.

It is just me or what??  Wouldn't you hold your hands up and say, sorry I haven't got round to that yet, or sorry I meant to call you....

I find this behaviour totally unacceptable.  How a person can lie is one thing, but to be caught out is another!

[Dusty *]

Gee,

I think I would have challenged her over this, and asked if somebody else had access to her emails, just to let her know a read receipt was received.

[gee4]

I let it go mainly because I was concentrating in getting the task complete.  If she did read the email she may have forgotten but it has been filed and noted for future reference.

[peaches2160]

With the volume of work we are all handling, these things do fall thru the cracks due to priorities.  It happens at times to all of us, but hopefully not alot.  However, when it does happen, I admit it, acknowledged I had not gotten back to it yet, and move on.  Honesty is best.