Guru

Mrs Guru subscribes to a range of women's fashion, lifestyle and celebrity gossip magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Company, Glamour etc.

They are all piled up in the corner of the downstairs loo, which Guru has need to visit on occasion, and, well... you need something to read.

So Guru is no stranger to the concept of sex surveys ("We tell you what your boyfriend won't"; "How big is your man?"; "Is it normal if he asks me to do this?" etc. You get the idea.)

Then the other day, such a survey popped into Guru's inbox. Sadly, on closer inspection, it was not a sex survey, but a 'secs survey'. A survey of secretaries. Actually, Guru thought, it might amount to the same thing, especially if Lindsay in sales support is anything to go by.

But alas no, it was simply some research commissioned by the recruitment site SecretarialCareers.co.uk to prove that PAs are indispensable and boost publicity for its Secretarial Awareness Week (17-21 September), would you believe?

Guru has seen this kind of self promotion before from the secretarial profession and takes it with a pinch of salt, please love. And a cup of tea - two sugars thanks. By the way, my dry cleaning is ready...

But in case you are interested, among the survey's findings were:

Many secretaries have gone way beyond the call of duty, with nearly a third (28%) booking holidays for their bosses, and a quarter (24%) buying presents for boss's partners or illicit lovers. Some have even been reputed to dictate notes while the boss sat on the toilet.

More than half (54%) have had to tell a lie to cover up for their bosses. A third (35%) had been bullied, and almost a fifth (18%) have been subject to sexual advances.

There you go - it was all about sex after all.