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"  A new New York Times profile of Cosmopolitan&amp;#039;s executive assistant Sergio Kletnoy features this ominous-sounding sentence in its first few paragraphs: &amp;quot;There are still bosses like Miranda Priestly in the magazine world, barking at minions to book tables at the Lambs Club or having them trail behind them carrying half-eaten tuna sandwiches.&amp;quot; And yes, in fact, there are Devil Wears Prada references all over.  But none relate to the Cosmo office environment (that is, apart from our commitment to cerulean) because we&amp;#039;re all great. Promise. And with that said, here&amp;#039;s some helpful insight from Sergio on the workplace and how to excel in it:  On Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief Joanna Coles: &amp;quot;It feels like her Duracell battery will never, ever, ever stop,&amp;quot; Mr. Kletnoy, 36, said of Ms. Coles. &amp;quot;Joanna goes 150 miles an hour and sometimes it&amp;#039;s hard to catch up.&amp;quot; And on his sense of worth in the workplace: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve never had a boss where I&amp;#039;m respected like Joanna respects me,&amp;quot; said Mr. Kletnoy. &amp;quot;In life, you have to do what feels right for you.&amp;quot; On coffee runs, because yes, they happen: &amp;quot;My job is to make sure the little things get taken care of so that the big picture can be handled by the boss, as I call her.&amp;quot; On the fine art of scheduling: &amp;quot;Ms. Coles can be tough and demanding, and Mr. Kletnoy says that managing her schedule of 15 to 20 appointments a day can be a nightmare. &amp;#039;I book her so far in advance that when we actually reach that week, she&amp;#039;ll say, you know what? This can be moved.&amp;#039;&amp;quot;  On the cult of Miranda Priestly: &amp;quot;When I saw &amp;#039;The Devil Wears Prada&amp;#039; I thought every single magazine opersates the way that movie does. And for some reason I was drawn to it. It&amp;#039;s probably a sick fascination with being put down. And when I came to Marie Claire to work for Joanna it completely changed my view of this world.&amp;quot; On meeting/greeting celebrities: &amp;quot;Mr. Kletnoy, who has worked for Ms. Coles since 2007 seems to thrive in this role. At Cosmopolitan&amp;#039;s 38th floor offices, he dutifully completes his administrative tasks while he blogs, tweets and poses for photographs with the celebrities who pass through. While Mr. Kletnoy humors Ms. Coles&amp;#039;s love of Cyndi Lauper, he insisted she meet a more current performer, the pop singer Ellie Goulding, when she arrived in the United States for a tour.&amp;quot; Now, let&amp;#039;s all take a moment and listen to Cyndi Lauper&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Time After Time.&amp;quot; It does feature in a seminal scene from Romy &amp;amp;amp; Michele&amp;#039;s High School Reunion, after all. Oh, and on meeting even more celebs: &amp;quot;He also provided the music mix Jennifer Lopez listened to during her fashion shoot for the October cover.&amp;quot;  (First you pick J.Lo&amp;#039;s music, then you pick her jumpsuits and then basically you&amp;#039;re BFFs for life.)  And if hanging with J.Lo isn&amp;#039;t enough, on going above and beyond: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s about taking on more responsibilities than what your job requires. if you show people that you can actually do the job, then then the world is yours. I actually feel like I have three jobs [now].&amp;quot; p.s. One last quote from the piece: &amp;quot;He paused, contemplating his own place in the fast-paced New York media world: &amp;quot;A year from now,&amp;quot; he said, &amp;quot;there may be a cooler executive assistant to take my spot.&amp;quot; (From all of us at Cosmopolitan, that&amp;#039;s hard to believe.) Photo Credit: Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times/ Redux "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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