work-ness

I 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....

yay

Josie and John gave me the night off. yay for sleepies.

I've started that lovely "coughs you can taste" thing that usually presages an incipient lung infection. However, when I lost my insurance, my doctor gave me a script for 'the usual' antibiotic I take for the lung-ick, and I have it on-hand. So while it won't do a thing for the basic cold, it will head off the secondary infection. So I shoudl only have a day or so of ickies left.

Off for a good dinner, packing, and an early bed.