My Boss Is So Weird I Can Hardly Stand It
This is just going to be a short rant about my boss because I JUST WANT SOMEONE TO EXPLAIN TO ME WHY HE IS THE WAY HE IS.
We signed on with a texting service called Podium so that we could text clients from our PCs and have everything on one platform that we could both access. Plus, clients can text our landline.
Which, I have to admit, is pretty cool. Too bad there’s a huge glitch with AT&T at the moment and we can’t text anyone who uses AT&T, which is apparently 80% of our clients.
Anyway, at some point he started pretending to be me in the texts.
Why? I can only speculate. The best idea I can come up with is that it made him look more important to always have his (one and only) staff member responding to inquiries 24/7.
i.e. He’s too important to answer lowly texts.
I complained, of course, because (A) it was fucking creepy and (B) it was fucking creepy.
He has managed to stop doing that, somewhat, by signing each text “ — Law Office”. Bearing in mind that the clients know there’s a grand total of two people in the office. And I, naturally enough, sign the texts that I send with my actual name since they are, in fact, from me, the person who sent them.
Yesterday, I discovered that he is now sending emails in the third person.
I can’t… I just can’t.
Again, since there are only two people in the office, if the email isn’t coming from him, the implication is that it’s coming from me, which would be the unlicensed practice of law. Which is bad, m’kay?
Considering how many times he’s thrown me under the bus to appease a client, there is zero doubt in my mind that if someone complained to the Bar, he would absolutely say the emails were coming from me, for whatever incomprehensible reason.
I understand that there are nightmare bosses, and then there are just disturbed people punching above their weight intellectually. I’ve never worked for a normal attorney.
Never.
Wait until I tell you about the cult.
