I got this job for the county as a legal assistant for the public defender superior court unit. All new county employees have to be on a 6 month probation period. I can’t take PTO at all but I still accumulate. I can use sick time but not quite often because it looks bad. I’ve had to cancel and reschedule doctor appointments.
In my unit there are 4 legal assistants assisting about 2-4 attorneys each. It’s about 50 cases per attorney.
Today two of my coworkers proudly announced they’re taking Friday off as vacation day. Meanwhile me and my other coworker who’s also new will have to endure the overwhelming of work and calls assisting the other attorneys that my coworkers assist. This means I have to take a client’s call on behalf of my other coworkers. We don’t know crap about those cases of course.
That’s 5 attorney each for me and my other coworker. Let’s just hope that the other division under the public defender, is not running low on staff too. The other division there’s only 2 legal assistants and one of them or the other is constantly out of office. The problem with one of them is that there’s one who doesn’t want to take any calls when the other person is out and forces the superior unit to take the calls when we don’t know crap about the other division and procedures.
My coworkers were like “y’all will be holding down the fort” and laughed.
6 month probation period is a joke. I was on a 90 day probation period at my old job and it went by so fast. It sucks not being able to take time off. My wedding anniversary is coming up and I can’t take at least a day off. I have friends who started new jobs and were able to take time off right away. I can’t even go home to visit my family.