Losing jobs
Aug. 10th, 2010 01:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imamaryanneSo for the second time in about fifteen months, I may be indirectly responsible for someone getting fired at work. The first happened last April, when my boss was being transferred to the Virginia office. I couldn't make that commute from my house in MD and continue to have G in his daycare. So I was going to quit. Instead, they fired the auto accident paralegal and gave me her job. Truth is, she was a shit worker and there were tons of complaints about her. Still, if it wasn't for me refusing to commute to Alexandria, she'd probably still be working there.
Then on Friday our Receptionist told me about an incident a couple weeks earlier where one of the secretaries was called on to assist one of my clients with some paperwork. She was called because I was out sick that afternoon. Said secretary, who has a well-known attitude problem and whose continued employment is hanging by a thread anyway, was so rude to the client that it made her (the client) cry. Bear in mind, this is a client suffering from cancer. I was fuming when I found out and I couldn't not say anything, so I went to the firm manager. And there's a big meeting between the secretary, firm manager and our office manager tomorrow. Rumor has it, she's getting the ax and this incident with the client is the straw that broke the camel's back. I'll know for sure if it's happening tomorrow.
I had to call the client and smooth things over, and thankfully she was very gracious about it, accepted the official firm apology, and is not going to fire us. So there's that, at least.
Totally off subject, but my husband snapped this lovely picture of me and G. I love the pic despite G holding his nose and me looking like I have double chins. The book we're reading is Free to be, You and Me.
Then on Friday our Receptionist told me about an incident a couple weeks earlier where one of the secretaries was called on to assist one of my clients with some paperwork. She was called because I was out sick that afternoon. Said secretary, who has a well-known attitude problem and whose continued employment is hanging by a thread anyway, was so rude to the client that it made her (the client) cry. Bear in mind, this is a client suffering from cancer. I was fuming when I found out and I couldn't not say anything, so I went to the firm manager. And there's a big meeting between the secretary, firm manager and our office manager tomorrow. Rumor has it, she's getting the ax and this incident with the client is the straw that broke the camel's back. I'll know for sure if it's happening tomorrow.
I had to call the client and smooth things over, and thankfully she was very gracious about it, accepted the official firm apology, and is not going to fire us. So there's that, at least.
Totally off subject, but my husband snapped this lovely picture of me and G. I love the pic despite G holding his nose and me looking like I have double chins. The book we're reading is Free to be, You and Me.
