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Is it worth all of this?

Posted by: fawn
Date: 9/21/2004 11:58:56 AM

This past year I have been moved to the back of our office to be trained to become a legal assistant for a new attorney arriving in our office from Ohio. I should have headed the warnings from co-workers of mine how repulsive and irritating this woman to be training me is. After sitting here, I have basically become an assistant to HER to finish up stuff she has not completed due to daughtling (sp) around the office and not finishing jobs on time. This office for some reason has kept this woman here ten years claiming she does her work well... when she actually does it, that is. Not only am I in shock over her lack of responsibility, her human habits would make one sick. She sits back here burping all day, chewing/eating like an animal, as well as complaining to major clients of ours about her boss.. very unprofessional! She dopes herself up on medications due to being a hypochondriac, including xanax... Yet the ten years are still going. Just yesterday I sat here working while she cut skin off of her bare feet as well as toe nails with a pair of scissors!! Her boss has even come out in conversation to us saying he does not know how I can put up with her habits! Well, due to Hurricane Charley, our office building is being renovated and we are moving to another building for the time being. I found out today that rather than sitting me outside of the office of the attorney that I am "named" to work for/with like the rest of the secretaries of our office, I am to be stuck in a room with this woman once again. I have made many comments to our office manager in hoping to change their minds to re-seat me to 1. get away from this woman who makes me sick, and 2. to be closer to the attorney I am to be working with, also making that easier on him.. rather than me "assisting" aka doing this one secretary's work for her, while also doing personal business for the attorney she works with. Does anyone have any clues on how to improve this situation? Or should I really seek better employment?

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