Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

Derp

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Welp.

Shit head boss wins. Fired for reasons of "not a good team player." I had a coworker who had outright stated I was the only reason he was still at that job. I documented the hell out of shit. I communicated thoroughly. I got along with everyone.

But my boss constantly had vague shit about me not getting along with people. Never anything concrete. Never any actual situations. Just vague handwavium.

And I got fired for it.

I once got fired from a paralegal position because:

I was scheduled to be off a day for a school event.
The attorney had court that day, and the situation was supposed to be resolved.
The attorney did not resolve the situation and the case got continued.
The attorney did not give me any paperwork related to this, or give me any indication that the case was anything but resolved.
The attorney did not put the new date on the calendar.
The attorney was on vacation when the new day rolled around, so nobody was there to argue it.
I got fired for not putting a case date on the calendar when I could have had literally no way of knowing that the case was even still open, since our county does not use the statewise case tracking system.

Sometimes, asshole bosses win.

Auspice

@Derp

What makes me feel (marginally) better is I've had multiple teammates tell me in the past that things would fall apart without me. There's multiple processes that only I know how to do.

I've tried teaching other people. I even made documentation. But most of them were too lazy to ever learn. There's also a lot of shit I just know or can do in a fraction of the time.

surreality

@Auspice What ever our differences, I'm really sorry to hear this, and that is some serious bullshit you absolutely do not deserve.

If karma is indeed a thing, you will find something kickass soon that is not a nightmare to deal with day to day, and they will lose a lot more people over that crap.

Auspice

@surreality said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice What ever our differences, I'm really sorry to hear this, and that is some serious bullshit you absolutely do not deserve.

If karma is indeed a thing, you will find something kickass soon that is not a nightmare to deal with day to day, and they will lose a lot more people over that crap.

Thank you. And I do think they will, to be perfectly frank.

I know most of the other people there were/are unhappy with his shit. This is a man who will dig around for 'dirt' on people. Who will lie and when caught, engage in clear gaslighting tactics wherein he insists you're the one lying / in the wrong / 'must be crazy' sort of bs.

He sulks and has nigh tantrums when it's pointed out that he doesn't know certain things or have the skills for stuff (stuff he's blatantly refused to learn how to do).

Lord above I wish I hadn't finished a ticket I did over the weekend. I had to rebuild a file from scratch that had been lost. I managed to do so by teaching myself further ins-and-outs a program that only I know (when I say 'only I,' I mean it: the last person who knew anything was with the client and even he was sort of groping around within it when he taught me the steps). Lucky fuckers.

I wrote documentation on it months back, but for the most part, any time a case on it ever came in: it'd be left for me because most people just got lost within the software.

Wretched

@Auspice Do you work in our government?

Auspice

@Wretched said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice Do you work in our government?

Newp. But close enough: our client was a financial firm.

Arkandel

What, you thought this was over?

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/johnny-depp-sues-ex-wife-amber-heard-claiming-131903423--abc-news-topstories.html

Ganymede

@Derp

You're probably better off. An attorney who cannot keep track of his own cases does not deserve assistance of any kind. That attorney needs to take fewer cases and learn to handle his own docket.

I use my admin assistant for the important things: (1) making sure my documents gets filed into the electronic storage system; (2) fielding calls so I don't get disturbed; and (3) making sure my shit looks and sounds right. Everything else is on me, and I make that very clear to her.

saosmash

I am missing a filing deadline in approximately 8 minutes because my client has not signed and returned a thing I sent him last week.

Ganymede

@saosmash said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I am missing a filing deadline in approximately 8 minutes because my client has not signed and returned a thing I sent him last week.

One thing we do at my firm, if you're talking about the verification of interrogatory answers under oath, is submitting the unverified version to opposing counsel and/or the court, and then submitting the verification later by amendment.

"I mean, the thing got filed, your Honor; it was just missing something that we added later. Where's the harm?"

saosmash

@Ganymede Sadly it's a responsive declaration in a family law case (WHY do I take these). Without my client's signature I don't really have anything to file.

Ganymede

@saosmash said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Sadly it's a responsive declaration in a family law case (WHY do I take these). Without my client's signature I don't really have anything to file.

As a civil litigator, this is me practicing family law.

that's not how it works

I'm sorry for your situation, friend. Come. Let us drink.

Derp

@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Derp

You're probably better off. An attorney who cannot keep track of his own cases does not deserve assistance of any kind. That attorney needs to take fewer cases and learn to handle his own docket.

I use my admin assistant for the important things: (1) making sure my documents gets filed into the electronic storage system; (2) fielding calls so I don't get disturbed; and (3) making sure my shit looks and sounds right. Everything else is on me, and I make that very clear to her.

I was not at all broken up about it, given that it paid a few pennies more than minimum wage and had no benefits.

mietze

Whole family involved stomach flu really sucks. At least youngest and I are about 12+ hours ahead of everyone else so we have enough bathrooms. Also 100 percent recovered 5 year old when you still fell like shit run over by a semi also sucks.

mietze

Nice. Went to a college financial planning/funding seminar with eldest (who is a junior in HS) and there was literally almost a brawl between two parents at it.

boop

@mietze said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Nice. Went to a college financial planning/funding seminar with eldest (who is a junior in HS) and there was literally almost a brawl between two parents at it.

How's this a peeve? That sounds hilarious.

mietze

@deathbird it was not hilarious to my 17 year old to hear two men less than 2 feet away from him break out into a profanity laden screaming and threatening shoving match, no. The vibes were not good. I am pretty easy going with crazy ass people due to the jobs I've had but I was just about to dial 911 myself.

boop

@mietze NOW it makes sense. Yikes!

Macha

Having some stupid quirk that makes cilantro taste like soap, and everyone around me talks about how good it is. And then finding it is in my peanut sauce enough to ruin it. Blech.

Derp

@Macha said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Having some stupid quirk that makes cilantro taste like soap, and everyone around me talks about how good it is. And then finding it is in my peanut sauce enough to ruin it. Blech.

It does taste like soap, and I will fight anyone that says differently.