On "Friends", who was Phoebe a secretary for?

On “Friends,” Phoebe worked as a secretary for Chandler Bing. The temporary job appears in the first-season episode “The One with the Ick Factor,” when Chandler needs help with his office work and Phoebe agrees to fill in.

The arrangement is amusing because Phoebe is not naturally suited to conventional office behavior. She approaches the job with her usual bluntness and eccentricity, while Chandler’s workplace is built around the kind of corporate routine he often mocks. Her temporary role also gives the episode another way to pair characters outside their usual apartment and coffeehouse settings.

This is easy to confuse with Phoebe’s many other unusual jobs. She is best known in the series as a masseuse and musician, and she later takes on other short-lived occupations. Chandler, meanwhile, works in statistical analysis and data reconfiguration before moving into advertising, although the show deliberately keeps his exact early job vague for comic effect.