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| Star | Apr 20 2013, 07:40 PM Post #16 |
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Legend
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It was just shitty. Plain old shitty. Basically, I've been working in law for quite a while now. About 7 years. And most of that experience came as a bankruptcy paralegal, so these attorneys hired me out of a bunch of others based on that experience which was cool. The pay was good and I was excited. So last Friday I came in and went over a few things with the girl I was replacing. Just a few things. It's a pretty high volume firm but I was totally fine with that. So I went home feeling decent about the work. Monday was my first official day, as I was in by myself. I was filing bankruptcies but also had some side things to do like writing letters and sending emails and answering phones when the receptionist was busy...things I felt fine about because I'd done them all before. Well, wrote my first letter and to the lawyer it wasn't very good. He told me it was all wrong and wrote a big ass X on it which wasn't a big deal. I assumed that he'd just correct me and tell me what to do to fix it. Instead, he got pretty huffy and said he'd just do it himself. Whatever... He gave me some other letters to write during my filing. Now, I'm used to putting things on a list. This is a brand new office to me and I have to get used to the way things are done here. I didn't know he expected letters to go out as SOON as I got them so he basically accused me of taking an hour to do small letters. I didn't take an hour to do the shit. I had been working on other things. So he got mad about this. All day, he was just irritated and patronizing and rude. Any time he came in my office I expected something bad. And this was all on my first real day. I didn't realize that I'd be expected to have perfect work on my FIRST day (after one day of training in his office). We don't get paid lunches so I didn't even end up eating. Instead I just busted my ass trying to do things right but the more he was on me the more of a nervous wreck I became. I'm not sure what he's used to but when I feel really tense and nervous my productivity goes down, not up. I've had to work under pressure many many many times before, obviously. It's law. But this shit was just different. It was my first day with this dude and he was just fucking nuts in my eyes. Next day was worse to the point where I heard him shouting that my work "Looked like SHIT...absolute shit". That day was actually even worse than the first day. I was all out of whack and barely got any sleep those first two days because I was so on edge and trying to figure out ways to do better, writing shit down and whatnot. So when I went in the next day things were still pretty bad to the point where I just got my shit and left. And I had every intention of not coming back. But some friends convinced me that I should go back and talk to him, so I did. I came back and he was all "Where have you been?" I asked to speak with him and he cheerily said yes and seemed happy that I wanted to talk to him. I basically let him know that I've been really nervous in the environment and it's affecting my work. He said he noticed and kinda made it seem like he wanted to help...but at the same time he insulted me by saying that he thought I "embellished" my resume. But he said he won't criticize me at all today and then they'd see how we did. There's another attorney, his partner, who thought he was a little over the top with me and spoke to him some as well. So that day he kinda laid off and I did better but I still just felt so uncomfortable after that shitty start. Next day was the same old same old. I contemplated walking out. I even got to the point where I was nearly in tears with the other lawyer (nearly, though lol. I didn't actually cry). He got me to calm down and continue working. But I just felt like absolute crap every single day. I wasn't eating and I was sitting there for 8 hours feeling like a total mess. So on Thursday I explained to the "nice" lawyer that it wasn't working. Got my check Friday and felt a shit ton better walking out of there than I did walking in. |
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| Brytain Rollins | Apr 20 2013, 10:02 PM Post #17 |
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ughhh that sounds awful. i'm glad you quit, there is literally no paycheck worth that kind of stress and humiliation. i do mostly office assistant crap and i had that happen to me a while back but i was transferring between departments in the same organization. now, department a was pretty laid back and i did clerical stuff but nothing like the type of responsibilities and high paced stuff in office b. but they legit did not train me at all, just set me down in my desk and gave me a stack of files. every time i tried to ask for clarification or training on something, i basically got called stupid for not already knowing. they told me that because i did xyz in office a i should just KNOW what i was doing. i tried explaining that it was pretty different and that there was a lot more detail involved in the stuff we were doing in office b and that i knew i could pick it up if they would just train me. :/ long story short, i caught myself crying in my car on the way to work one morning at the idea of walking back in there and decided that it wasn't worth it. so i called them, told them i was quitting and turned my car back around. felt soooo good. |
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| Star | Apr 21 2013, 09:47 AM Post #18 |
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Legend
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These office environments are nuts. I'm thinking of just going back to my old job for a little while and using this time to move to a field I really wanna be in. I'd like to work for a publishing company and do some shit with writing and books because that's what I love. I don't actually wanna be a paralegal. Despite what people say it's a pretty dead end job to me. I just got too comfortable doing it but I never want to be in a position to be treated like that again. The dude was so damn bipolar and up until I left he was being a dick. Maybe he thought I was too stupid to notice but he was out of the office Friday until the afternoon. So he calls me and tells me that the other lawyer told him that I was uncomfortable and that he doesn't want to make someone stay and be miserable because "that's not what his office is about". He then goes on to say that people who are uncomfortable are not productive...which is true. But THEN this asshole adds "Which one came first...who knows?" To me, that was his way of letting me know once again that he thought I just sucked at the job and none of it was his fault. I didn't even react. I just knew I didn't have much longer to be there. Once he came back, I got my check, and rolled out. I didn't even notice that the asshole had whited out the month on my check and rewrote it so because it was altered my credit union wouldn't take it. And I was not going back there. So I just found a branch of his bank and got them to cash it for me. |
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| Sebastian Grey | Apr 21 2013, 10:45 AM Post #19 |
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That really sucks, Trice. I'm glad you knew enough to walk away before it got even worse, and on your own terms. I've never had THAT bad of an experience at a workplace before. I'm not sure how I'd react if I did. |
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| Arkia Fisk | Apr 27 2013, 12:53 PM Post #20 |
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Miss Busine$$
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People are just absolute assholes. There's no reason to go for the neck and you just started there. Hell, there's no reason to do it at all its the workplace and the common use of respect is necessary. I'm sorry you had such a bad experience but fuck him...never worth it. |
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| Erin Daniels | Apr 27 2013, 01:19 PM Post #21 |
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Rising Star
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This just brings to mind all the things I would do when I knew I was going to leaving a job I hated. Shit like, "Yeah, it's not going to work out, but oh one more thing.... GLITTER!" and throw out a handle full of it. |
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| Enderton | Apr 27 2013, 02:05 PM Post #22 |
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Savannah Slammer
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Yeah, I hear ya. Been pretty unsatisfied at my work the past six months. My team are being treated like cannon fodder right now - we're meant to be case managers and escalation specialists, and pretty much any time a call queue rises, we're told to drop our actual job role immediately, mentally switch gears and get queues down. Which inevitably results in our work being screwed for the whole day. Lead times aren't adjusted and no concession is made, it's basically 'oh well you can juggle both' Add that to me getting a verbal warning for one mistake last year (which had no impact on the business, cost us nothing, and was basically my temp boss throwing me under the bus to save herself), which autoDQs me for promotions, us having four people do the work of 12, and senior management treating us like crap and I've so had enough of them lol. I got offered a senior service tech role with another company. I'm taking it. Edited by Enderton, Apr 27 2013, 02:08 PM.
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| RockinRiley | Apr 27 2013, 02:56 PM Post #23 |
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I love you star lol it seems like me and you are so much a like as far as reacting situations. I would've done the same thing girl I'm glad you stood up for yourself. No one deserves to be treated like that I don't care who you are, but hey atleast you got paid! Bless ya Trice! |
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