Day 26 Month 2 Year 2016 in BookThree: Flight Log 2016

Some days are too important not to share.

Honestly, not sure if this is one of them… but the potential for other things branching from today is significant enough that it should at least be recorded for posterity.

I’m coming down with something. It may just be a cold or something, but I am certainly getting sick. Stiffness, feeling weak, so hot I’m sweating than so cold I’m shivering… all classic symptoms of illness. The congestion set on this morning. I may have missed it but it caused me to snore and thus, Wife woke me up to “stop it!” I suppose I should look at it as good news since she hasn’t felt the need to do that in a while. She was also unhappy at how much sweat I had going on. Grabbed a blanket, trudged to futon. Slept. Woke up cold and to a text message from Karen. Boss’ Boss wanted to see me in a meeting today. Finally, I thought. He needed to go through the entire spate of employees before he felt prepared to deal with me. Of course… Boss’ Boss is a freaking idiot and even though the Court Schedule is largely visible from anywhere in the office… Boss’ Boss wanted the meeting at 12:30 when I was supposed to be in court at 1. Not a stupid tactic, honestly. If I had acquiesced to that meeting time; it would have been a meeting where I allow him the floor for the entire time and then bolt as soon as he was finished talking so I could get to court on time. In other words, he wanted to schedule a lecture. I apologized and told him that I wouldn’t be able to come in at that time due to court.

I get all my gear, head to the office, grab my paperwork, go to court… not a big deal, really. I say goodbye to a few COs in the off chance that the meeting I will eventually have turns into a termination.

Got back to the office and Boss’ Boss is not present. SO I ask Karen what the deal is and she says he may be back around 3 but I’m not required to stay. Fuck it; I’d rather get it out of the way. As we’re talking, somehow, my favorite Muppet Expression comes up (as seen in the video below) and now that’s like a thing Karen and I do. Seriously… I think the MN connection between us puts us on the same page more often than not. After that, talked to Work Crush a bit… she put in her two weeks. Rightfully, she says it feels like a giant weight has been lifted! Then it was time for my meeting.

Basically… Boss’ Boss was trying to say that things had spiraled, it wasn’t his fault at all, he’s just trying to figure out how things got this way. I told him flat out… “You want to know how things have gone from 2012 to now? Come to me first. Asking people who’ve been here for 3 months before asking the only person that has been here longer than 1 year does not suggest you were just trying to figure things out.” Honestly… he and I had a good meeting. His goals at this point are damage control; my goals are that he knows what the damage is. So it works. It is what it is. I’m still putting in my two weeks on Monday; but I also made sure he and I have a follow up meeting on Monday to discuss the facts about how the system changed over the years… because I’m the only one other than my boss who knows… and clearly my boss has done a ridiculously shitty job.

Came home, felt worse physically and checked the mail. A tiny sliver of an envelope with a return address of Buchanan County. The county I most wanted to work in. A tiny sliver of an envelope always means a rejection letter. This was no different. So… really… it has been established that I can not get a law job. Whether it is because of my experience (likely) or the fact that I live in NE trying to get a job in IA (probably) but I can’t get a job while in this current predicament. So, I have to get a plan going forward. Talk to as many attorneys in IA as I can to see if anybody will let me work for them for free and get me some learning and experience. Because… apparently, that is 100% needed.