An Assistant islike a middle man.....neither his / her feet are on earth nor he / she is touching the roof.

Officers keep pushing Assistants to hurry up hurry up and the poor Assistant has no authority over clerks to pull them to work. Most of them have to do all the work themselves and clerks (mostly) enjoy their service.

Assistant has to listen all the music from high ups and officers and has to request his clerks to do work. When you try to get hard on them, they reach the breaking point and complain officers..........at the end of the day Assistant has to do all the hard work and listen to the melodious music from officers too.

passing through a very bitter experience of being an assistant

Assistant = Machine of Compromises + Patience + tolerance