You walked over to my desk to bring me a letter you wanted sent. I was just sitting down to my desk and had my hands full. When you said you had the letter, ready to go, I said, "Okay, you can just put it down" and nodded to the ledge.
You said, "Well this is our original so I want to put it in your hands..."
I replied, "Well, my hands are full." You can clearly see this.
So you say, "Can I have a paperclip then?" because even though my hands are too full to take the document from you directly, they must not be too full to hand you a paperclip.
Did we really just have this conversation? Do you really not trust that I am capable of sending a document that you leave on the ledge for me? Have I ever not sent your letters out? Have I ever lost your letters? I've been a legal assistant for over 10 years, and have many years of administrative work prior to that.
Stop treating me like a child and/or stop acting like a diva.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Reason #38
The other day, while entering the revisions on your timeslip, I noticed you had circled the word "demurrer" and wrote "SP?" indicating you weren't sure if that word was spelled correctly.
You like bragging about how you're an attorney who's been practicing for over 20 years...and you don't know how to spell demurrer? Granted, you don't deal with litigation, you usually handle transactional work, but you went to law school. At Harvard.
I've been working in the legal industry half as long as you and have not gone to law school, let alone Harvard, and even I know how to spell demurrer.
Not to mention, our time entry system tells you when you've spelled a word incorrectly and it did not indicate in your entry that it was misspelled. So, common sense should have prevailed right there when your Harvard Law education failed you.
You like bragging about how you're an attorney who's been practicing for over 20 years...and you don't know how to spell demurrer? Granted, you don't deal with litigation, you usually handle transactional work, but you went to law school. At Harvard.
I've been working in the legal industry half as long as you and have not gone to law school, let alone Harvard, and even I know how to spell demurrer.
Not to mention, our time entry system tells you when you've spelled a word incorrectly and it did not indicate in your entry that it was misspelled. So, common sense should have prevailed right there when your Harvard Law education failed you.
Reason #37
X called for you and you weren't answering reception when they tried reaching you so X naturally asked to speak to me. When I buzzed you, you told me to tell X you were on a conference call and that you'd try to call him in about five minutes. So I relayed that to X and got his number, even though he said, "She has it." (Because I find when I do not ask for numbers, people ask, "Why didn't you get his number?")
You replied, and the beginning of your email said:
You replied, and the beginning of your email said:
hope you were nice (sure you were!)
Are you kidding me? If you're so "sure" I was nice, why do you need to clarify that you hope I was? And if I wasn't nice, do you think I'd have this job?
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