Timing is everything

Especially when the timing relates to minimising face-to-face time with fee earners - I've just returned from 2 weeks' leave and only had to put up with 3 days of interfacing with my boss before he left for a 2 week holiday. Still, he managed to call me a stupid cow in the brief yet all-too-agonisingly-long period of us having to share office space.

I never mind when I'm insulted by lawyers. Because the very fact that I don't give a shit what they call me means I'm still winning. The day I actually become upset and think about filing a grievance with HR is the day that this job has beaten me into a mindless and subservient paper shuffler with no life beyond her all-too-tidy desk.

In other news, people actually read this blog. Well, when I say 'people' I mean lawyers...it's a loose term. I referred to the secretarial co-ordinator as an Orc in my last post. The comment I received ran thus:

'Describe Orc...'

For those unfamiliar with the social politics of the legal world, here are some tips as to how I knew the above comment generated from the fingertips of a lawyer:

1. Nowhere in the sentence is there a please, thank-you or any other kind of vague attempt at courtesy.

2. When I say 'sentence' I mean 'words slapped together' with the utmost disrespect for any kind of grammatical context. If lawyers treated their clients the way they treated English Grammar, they wouldn't have any clients.

3. A sociopathic lack of empathy accompanied by a direct order for more information. Always a giveaway.

Anyway, lawdemon, one day I will describe the Orc. But seeing as I'm not on your payroll or anyway near it, I'll do it in my own time. Not that being on the payroll here makes me do the work any faster but I like keeping you in suspense.