assistant

Assistant is a term that is formed with the verb help (assist, cooperate) and the suffix -nt (which refers to the execution of the action expressed by the base). It can be used as adjective or as noun, depending on the context.

At a general level, it can be said that it is qualified as an assistant to who helps someone or something. Therefore, the helper provides help, provides collaboration or performs some kind of support or support.

A kitchen helper performs simple tasks and assists a restaurant cook.

The concept in everyday life

Many times the person who cooperate with a homework. Suppose that, while preparing dinner, a mother says to her 8-year-old son: "Do you want to be my assistant?". The little one answers affirmatively and then the mother asks him to set the table.

Take the case of a young man whose bike and manages to repair it with the assistance of his uncle. Conversing with his friends, the boy comments: "Luckily I had my uncle as an assistant, so I was able to repair the bike".

As you can see, the assistants can carry out a certain action, without there being a great planning. Nor does this act imply the acquisition of a permanent commitment. It is simply a matter of cooperating in a specific situation.

A film or TV director is usually supported by an assistant director.

Assistant as position or title

In the labor or institutional sphere, the assistant is called employees or officers serving as subordinates. In this way, the assistants carry out tasks entrusted to them by their superiors or that serve as a complement to the activities carried out by others.

In a restaurant, for example, usually works a kitchen assistant. This is the name of the apprentice who collaborates with the cooks in simple tasks: washing and cutting or chopping vegetables, weighing food, mixing preparations, ordering utensils, etc. The assistant, in this way, is adding experience in the gastronomic field and has the possibility of promoting to other positions with the passage of time.

A assistant directorOn the other hand, he assists a filmmaker or a TV director. You can perform both in the preparation of the shooting as in the filming itself and even in the post-production instance.

At football, the field aide or technical assistant He is the second coach of the team. He works in conjunction with the head coach and assumes his functions when, for some reason, he is unable to fulfill his role.

A Microsoft Office tool

It is known as Office Assistant to a resource that included the office pack Microsoft Office from version Office 97 until Office 2003 inclusive. This interface interacted with users, answering their questions and giving suggestions.

Several characters exercised the function from Office Assistant. The most famous was Clippy, which was an animated clip. Other popular helpers were The Genius (inspired by the scientist Albert Einstein) Y Will (related to the writer William Shakespeare).

Because many persons considered the apparitions of the Office Assistant, Microsoft chose to remove it. However, there are those who still miss the various variants of the Office Assistant.