All The While in Book Five: Working Through the Maze 2018

And all the while, despite this going on… I have to deal with my own work bullshit.

Like when Chinese Boss asks, in front of White Boss, that my own Case Summary include all of his cases as well. And looks at me to do it. Not looks at White Boss to be an active role in charting his own cases, looks at me like “Hey, do this.”
Like when Chinese Boss tells the Chinese Staff that she is disappointed that they all went to lunch together. Apparently, someone needs to be at the reception desk from 8:30 until 6 with no exceptions (even for lunch). Except… y’know… the fact that White Boss and Chinese Boss (the only lawyers) arrive and leave pretty much whenever they feel like it.
Like when Chinese Boss tells me that she remembers me handing her two separate folders for a case a few weeks ago, but she can’t find the first folder. And after I tell her it was likely a folder for another case that she is remembering, she tells one of the Chinese Assistants to look through all of the folders to find a file that may not exist.
Like when White Boss asks whatever happened to the File Folder I literally handed directly to him on Friday. I’m like, “I don’t know. Last I saw it, you had it in your hands.”
Like when Chinese Boss is having one of the Chinese Assistants audit every minute of my career here to determine if she can “recover” any money from my final paycheck.
Like when Chinese Boss has me do all the communicating with a Texas Law Firm on behalf of one of her immigration clients and then, when I tell her that the firm “is sending the information to us, which I will get you as soon as I have it.” SHE turns around and says “Get it to me by 4” as though I have any direct power over when Texas sends me the stuff I (a) already called and talked to them about and they (b) said that they would send me when they could.
Like when I specifically send an e-mail that says, “Wanted you to know I spotted a problem in a case, but I rectified the situation. Everything should be okay now, but wanted to let you know since it is a case you guys are now working on.” And Chinese Boss responds to that e-mail by saying “Please fix the problem you noticed. Thank you.”
Like when Chinese Boss asks me to call an attorney in New York whose voice mail says “I’ll be out of the office until March 6th, just leave a message.” And when I tell her this, Chinese Boss says “keep calling”. Like she doesn’t get that March 6th was 3 weeks ago and the failure to change the outgoing message means either (1) she hasn’t returned yet or (2) she is terribly swamped under shit.

So, yeah. In short… this law firm is still incredibly disorganized. Chinese Boss is an absolute idiot who (1) doesn’t understand enough English, apparently and (2) doesn’t understand how to run a business. I’m literally spending most of my day (today) in the basement doing almost nothing because the “conversation about transitioning” that I was told we’d be having still hasn’t occurred.

I will be glad to not have to deal with this anymore. But this makes my world more complicated temporarily. If I deal with clients this week? I’ll be dealing with high stress people at a low point in their lives because they’ve been arrested or deported. Added to Chinese Boss who is a high stress individual who likes yelling at people because she doesn’t understand something. Added to Wife’s anxiety antics. Once again… I look at my life and it seems like there’s just not enough room for me in it.