Possible Clues:

• Asian drunk, reported office worker
• Secretarial role
• The old-style secretary, for one
• Person at keyboard
• Worker taken from pool, perhaps, getting unusually tipsy after short time
• … Asian fuddled in speech, key worker
• Person in pool, perhaps, who executes key strokes without a break
• One's work's depressing, following dictator?
• Author's assistant
• One who writes depressing letters?