This lady that got hired with me (I made another post about her, but things have kinda sorta changed since then, some for the good) has become like the manager of the legal writers at the law firm we work at. What does this mean? Nothing except that she volunteered herself to send daily reports of every conversation she has with anyone.
If you listen, she will tell you about her very strong moral code. Basically, you are not a good person if you don't compete against everyone else around you. If you go home on time, you are not dedicated enough. But here's the big one. She will prove to you that she is smarter than you because she used to be an assistant principal, a CEO of multiple companies, an editor, and a published author. She's now working in an entry level position intended for college students.
She tends to go on these “logic spirals” but it's usually the same one every now and then. She comments on how our job is to write demand letters and make power points for mediation, trial, etc. It's a very research heavy position, and basically those used to be jobs the attorneys and paralegals do, but we were brought in to take the burden off of them. So she points that out, that we're “supplementary” and that she cannot “morally” justify us having this job because it means that the paralegals and attorneys are not doing their job. Therefore, we should be fired. But she doesn't like that because that means she would be fired. So she says that it is “immoral” that our paralegals have such an important and intellectual position, but don't have college degrees even though all of the legal writers do. She said that it's even worse because she found out that some of our paralegals are not certified paralegals, and got their jobs on experience and word of mouth. So our head attorney should just pay for us to be retrained as paralegals. But she doesn't like that either because our paralegals are overworked with the legal writers helping them. Her current working solution is that she is now certified as a paralegal, but she will remain as a legal writer because she is of the belief that we cannot “morally” make a compelling argument or conduct research on legal cases if we do not intimately understand how every single position in our law firm operates.
I'm going insane just sitting next to her!