As celebrities, we have the awesome responsibility of having personal assistants. But those assistants don’t come with “user manuals.” Over the years, I have had many personal assistants and I wanted to pass along a few tips:
1) Giving your assistant clothes you “wouldn’t be caught dead in” is perfectly okay.
2) No request is too big OR too small – whether the house is flooding because you destroyed your toilet in a manic rage or you need the batteries changed in your remote control at 10pm at night, feel free to call your assistant.
3) It is okay to ask an assistant to give up their evening plans in order to sit in your home office, just so you won’t feel lonely. The added bonus is that since they’re in another room, you don’t actually have to talk to them.
4) When receiving thousands and thousands of dollars of free stuff, you are under no obligation to share with your assistant, even if they were the one to have arranged it and picked it up.
When to Fire your assistant:
I usually find the appropriate time to let someone go is when they start to believe the two of you might actually be friends. Yes, you’ve laden them with your deepest, most intimate secrets, called them while you were stranded naked in an alley, and drunkenly told them you loved them. That’s all par for the course. But when they start thinking they might actually have a “real friendship” with you, time to restock.
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