The New Legal Assistant

We hired a new legal assistant a few weeks ago, but she didn't work out. She had called in sick twice, and then called to come in late, so we just decided to cut our losses after one week rather than keep going and find out that she wasn't suited to the job after an investment of several thousand dollars.

We immediately replaced her with someone else who turns out to be possibly the person I hope to keep with me for a long time.

This girl is actually kind of funny, but in a good way.

For instance, she took over the back room, which I told her was "her" office, and within a couple of days, she had reorganized it and made it her own.

Then at the end of her first full week, she came to me with a picture of a desk that she saw advertised and said she would be happy to purchase it and take it with her if she ever left, but THIS was the desk at which she would feel most comfortable working. She actually found a really good deal, when you consider how much desks are going for, and how it fits into the general decor I have been trying to promulgate. Of course, I told her that I would purchase it.

The desk at which she was working was actually a table with a lot of clutter on it, and I feel bad now that we were expecting her to work on that clutter desk. However, in my defense, I had told her, when she first started, that for now she could work at that table and if things went well, I would go find a desk. But she decided things were working well and she needed a new desk.

She also has commented on how interesting it will be for her to train someone to take over the more menial tasks she is now performing, as she becomes more experienced at the things that she is currently performing.

I think that is funny because I had said the same thing to Houston when I thought things were going well.

The new paralegal has been making sure to go through the new mail every day, going over the messages, making sure I have been doing certain things that I need to do, etc. She has even stayed an hour late on a couple of occasions.

I really, really hope that this becomes a permanent arrangement.