Ring Ring Ring...
"Hello?" I answer the phone wearily as I get dressed for work... it's my boss, who, the night before, called me about 6 times because she had been driven to our favorite restaurant by her date of the month...to meet our friends but had become too drunk to drive to that restaurant... now has explained needed a ride to get her car th next morning... She tells me multiple times on the phone the night before that she would need a ride... but couldn't state that she didn't need a ride at the present moment.. just the following morning.... It too me several attempts to question her on whether or not she needed a ride.. plus a phone call to few mutual friends...
"I've got good news and bad news."
Great... she's going to throw up in my car... but she's optimistic she'll make it at least until I can pull over.
"Okay... what's that?"
"You don't have to pick me up this morning." YAY "But you do have to go to court for me...."
Where was the law school class on this one? I would love to see the essay on that!
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
My pride has taken a bigger hit than Scar's in the lion king...
I'm almost 27. I'm highly educated. I'm quite intelligent... if I do say so myself.... however.. after the lovely boss decided to fire me or let me go.. however you want to put it to save face I've been left picking up the peices of my life. Where I may seem to have it all together to some... behind closed doors... I've been too upset to go back to my townhouse because 1)my roommate is a terrible human being and I can't stand to be around her... and 2) I've got some sort of comfort from sleeping on my brother's bottom bunk and watching Disney each night before I go to sleep.
I'm 27 and I'm moving back home. I can't afford to pay rent/school loans/car payments/ and misc bills. So I'm taking to a YARD SALE Easter weekend... to sell my couch a few sets of dishes and my washer and dryer. Then I will tuck my tail between my legs and once again move back into my parents home as a young adult that has temporarily failed at life. Didn't I scoff at people moving back home after college? Moving back home as a attorney --- woorrseee. This never happened to Elle Woods!
Did I mention I signed up for unemployment?Luckily I did it online... I don't know if I could take going down there. What do you even wear to go down there? Sweats? I know you don't take a prada bag. Which doesn't matter because I don't have one....
Will I ever be at a point where I'm not relying on people to get by?
I'm 27 and I'm moving back home. I can't afford to pay rent/school loans/car payments/ and misc bills. So I'm taking to a YARD SALE Easter weekend... to sell my couch a few sets of dishes and my washer and dryer. Then I will tuck my tail between my legs and once again move back into my parents home as a young adult that has temporarily failed at life. Didn't I scoff at people moving back home after college? Moving back home as a attorney --- woorrseee. This never happened to Elle Woods!
Did I mention I signed up for unemployment?Luckily I did it online... I don't know if I could take going down there. What do you even wear to go down there? Sweats? I know you don't take a prada bag. Which doesn't matter because I don't have one....
Will I ever be at a point where I'm not relying on people to get by?
Monday, March 19, 2012
Warning Sign One --- How You're Hired-- through an email may not be the most professional means to become employed...
My boss met my mother through an event at my dance studio which involves 3 things -- Stripping..Gossip... and Drinking. We have a strip tease class which is actually rather classy if you ask me... My boss - Madame Hearsay was there... and a bit tipsy. She basically hired me on the spot once my mom told her I was graduating in a few weeks and would be moving back home.
How did I impress her? A half dozen emails between us speaking of what my goals were, my personal life, and her giving a bit of advice. I was thinking "This is too good to be true!" It was. I met her once two weeks before I began working. She came in on a Saturday to meet me at the office. While we were speaking about my future at her firm -- she was starring at herself in the mirror behind me. She kept adjusting her fake pony tail and touching the skin around her eyes... She barely looked at me.
The day I started, I had three tax documents thrown on my desk. I was put in a desk in the front office next to the secretary which made my legal advice easily accessible to all clients that came into the office or criminals who would eventually become clients. I didn't have an office for the first three or so months that I worked there. So .. in the meantime ... I pretended to be a legal secretary so I wasn't bothered for free legal advice. Who knew that this would be the treatment I would receive from all the girls in the office and my boss up until my departure?
The day after I started I was left with the office witch. Literally, this woman made me cry twice the week I started. The legal secretary told my boss to call and check on me to make sure I didn't quit before they got back. She was hard nosed and rather fussy --- but eventually I grew to like and respect her. She was the only one in the office who didn't say one thing and really mean another. If she said something --- albeit in a mean manner--- she meant it. Things like "I don't know what this shit is" or ... "You're such a titty-baby!"
I was given assignments without guidance. I learned quickly... it was baptism by fire. I was in a sink or swim mode. I was all on my own for ten days while my boss and the legal secretary were touring Europe. I kept thinking... Wait for it.. they will be back soon and I'll get guidance! The day they were supposed to return -- they both had some sort of virus. They missed their flight. My boss threw up all over the rental car-- and then the legal secretary threw up because she touched my boss' vomit on the steering wheel.
O-M-G...
I knew from this point on --- I was going to have to fend for myself... but it has to get better ... right? W----r---oooooo--n--g.
How did I impress her? A half dozen emails between us speaking of what my goals were, my personal life, and her giving a bit of advice. I was thinking "This is too good to be true!" It was. I met her once two weeks before I began working. She came in on a Saturday to meet me at the office. While we were speaking about my future at her firm -- she was starring at herself in the mirror behind me. She kept adjusting her fake pony tail and touching the skin around her eyes... She barely looked at me.
The day I started, I had three tax documents thrown on my desk. I was put in a desk in the front office next to the secretary which made my legal advice easily accessible to all clients that came into the office or criminals who would eventually become clients. I didn't have an office for the first three or so months that I worked there. So .. in the meantime ... I pretended to be a legal secretary so I wasn't bothered for free legal advice. Who knew that this would be the treatment I would receive from all the girls in the office and my boss up until my departure?
The day after I started I was left with the office witch. Literally, this woman made me cry twice the week I started. The legal secretary told my boss to call and check on me to make sure I didn't quit before they got back. She was hard nosed and rather fussy --- but eventually I grew to like and respect her. She was the only one in the office who didn't say one thing and really mean another. If she said something --- albeit in a mean manner--- she meant it. Things like "I don't know what this shit is" or ... "You're such a titty-baby!"
I was given assignments without guidance. I learned quickly... it was baptism by fire. I was in a sink or swim mode. I was all on my own for ten days while my boss and the legal secretary were touring Europe. I kept thinking... Wait for it.. they will be back soon and I'll get guidance! The day they were supposed to return -- they both had some sort of virus. They missed their flight. My boss threw up all over the rental car-- and then the legal secretary threw up because she touched my boss' vomit on the steering wheel.
O-M-G...
I knew from this point on --- I was going to have to fend for myself... but it has to get better ... right? W----r---oooooo--n--g.
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Unemployed Lawyer... Trend?
On Tuesday... I was let go. Technically, I was taken off of payroll and am still expected to do my job without consistent pay. Now I'm officially an unemployed attorney with student loans out the hoo hah and I've never felt better. I can't say that I'm upset. I think the correct description for now would be that I'm relieved. No longer will I have to take the blame for things that aren't my fault, no longer will I have to clean up pee or poop in my office, no longer will I have to show up to Hearings with last minute notice...no longer will I have to deal with lack of boundaries that I've dealt with for a long time... in fear that I'll be fired..I've been fired. It's not too bad. I feel like the really awesome girl on Fairly Legal...
Monday, I'll be heading to the unemployment office. Right now... I'm heading to the law school to use the free resources in order to cover a deed for a lady.
I can't really tell you why I was let go. My boss gave me numerous reasons and they changed often. My boss refused to give me the list of things I was doing wrong because she said it was too long. She simply put the blame on me (which the blame often falls on others at this office) and then she told me I could stick around and pay rent and continue to help her for less pay. My first reason I received was "You love your other business, your boyfriend, and pinterest more than your job." This I almost found humorous considering who doesn't prefer their personal life and their hobbies over work? The second reason was -- You haven't been here enough in the past two weeks. I'm sorry -- wait--- I took the first vacation since I started here in the last two weeks... that vacation included 2 days off work... and before that... my grandmother quickly passed away and I had to help my family. I guess funerals and vacations are too much to ask for...
See why I'm relieved?
Now that I've left off my steam.. I'll be writing a lot more openly about how the office ran. I'm hoping that people will learn from the warning signs I ignored...
Am I bitter? I think so.
Monday, I'll be heading to the unemployment office. Right now... I'm heading to the law school to use the free resources in order to cover a deed for a lady.
I can't really tell you why I was let go. My boss gave me numerous reasons and they changed often. My boss refused to give me the list of things I was doing wrong because she said it was too long. She simply put the blame on me (which the blame often falls on others at this office) and then she told me I could stick around and pay rent and continue to help her for less pay. My first reason I received was "You love your other business, your boyfriend, and pinterest more than your job." This I almost found humorous considering who doesn't prefer their personal life and their hobbies over work? The second reason was -- You haven't been here enough in the past two weeks. I'm sorry -- wait--- I took the first vacation since I started here in the last two weeks... that vacation included 2 days off work... and before that... my grandmother quickly passed away and I had to help my family. I guess funerals and vacations are too much to ask for...
See why I'm relieved?
Now that I've left off my steam.. I'll be writing a lot more openly about how the office ran. I'm hoping that people will learn from the warning signs I ignored...
Am I bitter? I think so.
Monday, January 30, 2012
Split ends... Bright Lights.. and Aflac's lack of coverage for Mental Instability.
I haven't written in numerous months... and that's simply because life got in the way. Things I've done since my last email...
- Disney World - ran a marathon... in Disney
- Vegas
- Been tested for ADHD -- awaiting results
- Been to a counselor regarding my career, family, and love life...
- Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Years
- Covered the office while Madame Hearsay was out of the country for 2 weeks... like swimming with sharks
- Run my other business like crazy...
- Started a new website for Uncontested Divorces
- Had multiple CLEs I had to pay for and attend (as if the 200k I put into law school wasn't enough)
- While in Vegas - dealt with student loans going up to 10x the amount they were --- now 1/2 my income covers student loans... so much so I can't pay my bills plus my loans. Thanks Sallie Mae and Department of Education.
- Started taking Ambien so I can sleep at night...
- Dealt with multiple family emergencies and friend's emergencies
- Feeling completely lost..
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