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wendyzskiI still feel like poo.
Today I practically had to talk our legal secretary "off the ledge" to keep her from quitting. She's a legal secretary and is being treated like a file clerk. I'm a receptionist and I'm being treated like a legal secretary.
I think the issue is that she is used to a much more structured environment at a litigation firm, and the less-buttoned atmosphere is confusing her. Plus the firm admin and lead attorney are both very self-driven individuals with oversized egos who step on everybody, and she's miserable. This is NOT the job she signed up for.
Whereas I'm used to being the admin in a small office, so I don't expect my job duties to make sense. My job description is usually "whatever isn't someone else's job". I have processed documents three different ways in the past week, each based on the most recent set of instructions I got.
I think I talked her into staying at least through mid-June. Once the new associate starts, and everyone has ended their respective vacations, the dynamic around here may change. Oh - go ahead and dust off the resume and get it out there, but call them "doctor's appointments" until you have a better feel for where things are going.
If they think that they can fire her and expect me to step into her job when I am paid about half of her salary and have a side job, they are going to get a rude awakening....
Today I practically had to talk our legal secretary "off the ledge" to keep her from quitting. She's a legal secretary and is being treated like a file clerk. I'm a receptionist and I'm being treated like a legal secretary.
I think the issue is that she is used to a much more structured environment at a litigation firm, and the less-buttoned atmosphere is confusing her. Plus the firm admin and lead attorney are both very self-driven individuals with oversized egos who step on everybody, and she's miserable. This is NOT the job she signed up for.
Whereas I'm used to being the admin in a small office, so I don't expect my job duties to make sense. My job description is usually "whatever isn't someone else's job". I have processed documents three different ways in the past week, each based on the most recent set of instructions I got.
I think I talked her into staying at least through mid-June. Once the new associate starts, and everyone has ended their respective vacations, the dynamic around here may change. Oh - go ahead and dust off the resume and get it out there, but call them "doctor's appointments" until you have a better feel for where things are going.
If they think that they can fire her and expect me to step into her job when I am paid about half of her salary and have a side job, they are going to get a rude awakening....
