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Whos Your Office Mom? 你有办公室妈妈吗？ Paul Armstrong is looking to hire at ChoreMonster LLC, the Web startup he co-founded in Cincinnati. The ideal candidate will oversee the logistics of a recent move to a new office space, focus on staff morale and keep the organization running on schedule. 辛那提网络初创企业ChoreMonster LLC的联合创始人保罗?阿姆斯特朗(Paul Armstrong)正在为公司招聘一名员工。最终入选的那位求职者将要负责的工作是：在公司最近的一次搬迁过程中负责监管物流、鼓舞员工士气以及保持整个团队准时准点工作。 Or, as he put it on Twitter: We need an office mom. 说白了就是阿姆斯特朗发在推特(Twitter)上的招聘启事所说的：“我们需要一位办公室妈妈。” The office mom is shorthand for a figure in many offices: the colleague who remembers everyones birthdays and brings in cupcakes. She has Advil and tissues in her desk drawer. She knows your significant other is all wrong for you -- and will say so. “办公室妈妈”是对一类角色的统称，你在很多公司中都能看见这样的人：她会记得每个人的生日并带来纸杯蛋糕。她的抽屉里装着止痛药和纸巾。她知道你的另一半和你完全不搭──而且会把这个想法说出来。 She is often an office manager but can be a senior executive, too. Just as people talk about their office spouse, a colleague they spend time with and confide in, the office mom is asserting herself as the matriarch of the office family. This is especially true for more companies as they ditch private offices in favor of open-space desks where senior staff members sit among the junior and every personal phone call is overheard. 这样的人通常都是办公室经理，但也有可能是一位高级主管。就在人们谈论着自己的“办公室伴侣”──那种与你长时间相处、让你信赖的同事──的同时，有越来越多的办公室妈妈成为了办公室大家庭的女家长。尤其是在越来越多的公司青睐开放式办公桌而摒弃私人办公室、让高级职员坐在初级职员当中、每一个私人电话都能被同事听见的年代，情况更是如此。 The office mom is almost always a woman and often slightly older than other colleagues. She might actually be a mother, but not necessarily. A relationship with her is complex like all family relationships tend to be: A younger employee might want to please her professionally, even as she grits her teeth listening to her personal advice. 办公室妈妈大多数情况下都是一位女性，而且通常比其他同事稍稍年长一些。她可能在现实生活中就是一名妈妈，当然也可能不是。与她的相处往往像家庭关系一样复杂：一名年纪较轻的员工可能想不露声色地取悦她，即使在聆听她的个人建议时必须得咬牙坚持。 In offices staffed with and run mostly by women, office mothering can become a managemen