For decades, interns have served as coffee gofers in the financial district and entered data behind the walls of corporate cubicles in Midtown.
For those who would misinterpret the archetype and label us coffee gofers and dog walkers "pushovers" or "people-pleasers," know that most of us "Yes" souls would not trade-in our Rosie the Riveter attitudes if given the opportunity.
He fetched coffee, played gofer during practice and studied old tapes of Coach Bill Walsh installing his famous West Coast offense.
"I was Walter Cronkite's gofer — go for coffee, go for pencils.
But as a professor of education, I cringe at the implicit message that taking a teaching job in a poor school is equivalent to becoming a gofer who gets some higher-up's coffee every morning.
(Even a gofer — the eager kid who goes for coffee — would take umbrage at being introduced as a "junior political adviser". Any staff member trusted with the key to the headquarters' bathroom is identified by journalists desperate for a source as a key aide).
4. Forced to work four years as an underpaid laborer at an undisclosed Nike Indonesian sweatshop as a gofer for underage co-slave workers (get coffee, change diapers, sweep up severed phalanges). 5. Obliged to lend his tootsies, at will, to any charitable Foot Fetish Galas (expected to show up in formal leather choker, spiked armlets and chain-link leash).
[Clark] was on the set, and he was a gofer -- 'Hey, I need a cup of coffee,' or whatever.
Kennedy signed on as an assistant counsel, and Cohn treated him like a gofer, making him go out for sweet rolls and coffee refills, earning his eternal hatred.
It is more specific and intimate than gofer, a term applied to any aide ready to "go fer" coffee or do other menial tasks.
