u/wedgestatkiller

So I got excited and wanted to kind of share the love and excitement. I was running audits today on my files and doing a “here’s what you missed on glee” type email recapping our settled cases and the status of their settlements and as I’m going through I had the thought “I wonder how many cases we had vs how many we’ve closed” and y’all it might not seem like much but I’ve been here almost a year after switching firms and we had about 113 of cases in my department and I closed 28 of them in the span of a year and there’s about 21ish cases left that have settled and will be closed soon. Whoohoo!

Is it bad that things like that are what excite me now? Have I really eached that level of adulthood where little things like that give me joy 😆

Anyways it’s Friday y’all what are some moments that brought you joy and excitement while working.

So I was originally a family law paralegal for 4 1/2 years and at my old firm I was basically the Swiss Army knife that got passed around being expected to clean, help answer phones, watch the front for the receptionist, meet with bankruptcy prospective clients to do their intakes, take clients to the attorney, retain clients (like get payment, contract signing, give them worksheets for their case, etc) on top of doing dictations, keeping my attorney on track, returning calls, doing discovery, doing filings, etc. On top of dealing with office drama including a co worker who bullied me and was incredibly toxic to the point I had panic attacks and crying fits in the bathroom (which she used against me when they had a meeting saying I cried a lot)

To make a long story short. I quit that place last year and went to a new firm working in a different area as to not cause the firm any conflicts. Suffice to say, I’ve never been happier I mean there’s still days I wanna rip my hair out and office drama but just the fact that the clients I’ve had two who we settled cases on that gave me flowers and I had one that made me cry cause we managed to get one of her subrogation liens reduced by a lot and and she hugged me and her husband called me an angel and I just. I’m overwhelmed by the difference in feeling and wanted to share that even if the work is stressful and hard and someday you wanna just like run away or snap it’s little things that make you appreciate things.

Also sidenote on old firm. They’ve gone through three new girls to fill my position and they only last a couple days or a week 🤭 and the girl that bullied me has been working longer shifts as a result. I don’t wanna be petty but karma is a bitch lol