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New Job Skepticism

Hi – this is my third week into a new job and things were going pretty well; I don’t put all my faith into a company anymore since I’ve drained myself and have been through SO much bs. I am a paralegal and working for attorneys just plain SUX. So anyway, I am working for one attorney in the morning and another attorney after lunch. The afternoon attorney I guess likes to have a meeting every day with myself and the other paralegal bc he wants to sit there and dictate, put down and bark orders. I have an illness that extremely exacerbated my anxiety (some days are better than others) and I was ok with these meetings the first week or so bc we talked in a professional manner. Now, it is so bad for me I have to excuse myself to go to the bathroom and take ten…


Hi – this is my third week into a new job and things were going pretty well; I don’t put all my faith into a company anymore since I’ve drained myself and have been through SO much bs. I am a paralegal and working for attorneys just plain SUX. So anyway, I am working for one attorney in the morning and another attorney after lunch. The afternoon attorney I guess likes to have a meeting every day with myself and the other paralegal bc he wants to sit there and dictate, put down and bark orders. I have an illness that extremely exacerbated my anxiety (some days are better than others) and I was ok with these meetings the first week or so bc we talked in a professional manner. Now, it is so bad for me I have to excuse myself to go to the bathroom and take ten minutes to take an extra dose of my medication and calm myself down from the anxiety I am having. He gets extremely upset that I do this but I can’t help it. I can’t sit there trembling sweating and frankly bugging out. It’s not just head anxiety where it is just internal but all physical symptoms that are noticeable. I have no problem with the work and I know what needs to be done, it is very behind from the woman who is his paralegal being out on leave for her cancer diagnosis. I don’t see it working out where every day he’s calling meetings to basically yell at us, no other paralegals in the firm meet with their attorneys on a daily basis. I do not succeed with micro management techniques and it is inhibiting my daily productivity bc I am so scared of going in there. I have other job prospects but this location is the best for my children but I simply cannot live every day dreading that I will be pulled into this meeting every afternoon that a time he decides and have my body malfunction to where I’m practically exhausted and depleted when the meeting is over.

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