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* Joan from ''[[Mad Men]].'' Pretty much everyone in the office acknowledges that she really runs the place and is one of the only people who knows how the office bureaucracy and logistics truly works.
* Joan from ''[[Mad Men]].'' Pretty much everyone in the office acknowledges that she really runs the place and is one of the only people who knows how the office bureaucracy and logistics truly works.
* [[Sherlock|Mycroft Holmes]] claims to have a minor position within the British government. It is heavily implied that Mycroft Holmes ''is'' the British government. He does, after all, control all the CCTV cameras in London. And is possibly the head of [[MI 6]].
* [[Sherlock|Mycroft Holmes]] claims to have a minor position within the British government. It is heavily implied that Mycroft Holmes ''is'' the British government. He does, after all, control all the CCTV cameras in London. And is possibly the head of [[MI 6]].
* Donna from ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' is a variation: although she never made it past temp <ref> in the main timeline, at least</ref>, she can pretty much single-handedly run an office, work out complex calender systems, type 100 words a minute and do a [[Sherlock Scan]] of office file systems. She saves the day a few times over with those skills.
* Donna from ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' is a variation: although she never made it past temp <ref> in the main timeline, at least</ref>, she can pretty much single-handedly run an office, work out complex calendar systems, type 100 words a minute and do a [[Sherlock Scan]] of office file systems. She saves the day a few times over with those skills.


== Literature ==
== Literature ==