What does gofer mean?
Gofer means (informal) A worker who runs errands; an errand boy..
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/ˈɡoʊfɚ/ · noun
(informal) A worker who runs errands; an errand boy..
They were learning to do what in all my years in the music business I never saw — which was women running a record company, women producing concerts, women learning to be engineers, women moving into this absolutely all-male enclave. You never saw a woman in any of those positions, in any of that work except as secretaries and "go-fers".
More and more people agreed to help with the mailings, the hand-distribution of flyers, and telephonings. Others agreed to be gofers and fetchers.
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Gofer means (informal) A worker who runs errands; an errand boy..
Common synonyms include dogsbody.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
They were learning to do what in all my years in the music business I never saw — which was women running a record company, women producing concerts, women learning to be engineers, women moving into this absolutely all-male enclave. You never saw a woman in any of those positions, in any of that work except as secretaries and "go-fers".
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