My new secretary is making me want to put a bullet in my head...

[Tatyana]

I feel for you.

I have had to train some fairly slow on the uptake peeps before, and I still am.


If you don't sort it now, it will go on for ages.

One of our office ladies has consistently made serious data entry errors, most of them we find, but she has about 5 clinical incidents under her belt.

I don' t think anyone even bothers telling her anymore she is so stroppy about it as it wasn't sorted in the first place.

 

[heatherrae]

Heather, you should go through a service that specializes in your field.. that way they work as temps you pay a little more in the begining however this is the only way you truly find a candidate.. good luck .. Ive been in your spot a time or two.. stressful.. well at least she fixed your coffee I hope..lolm.... If you use a service send a list of qualifications ..

She does make great coffee and brought me a cream puff the other day...lol.


I had a "get real" memo and meeting this morning. My whole staff is pissed at me now...lol. I told them that if I or the other attorney tell them a procedure, they had better print it out and put it in a folder for reference because I now have a "three strikes" rule in place. You fail to follow procedure once and you get a verbal warning, twice is written warning and third time you are FIRED.

I found out she is playing stupid with me, because the things I was showing her yesterday, the other attorney had already sent her a step by step memo on what to do.

 

[heatherrae]

I feel for you.

I have had to train some fairly slow on the uptake peeps before, and I still am.


If you don't sort it now, it will go on for ages.

One of our office ladies has consistently made serious data entry errors, most of them we find, but she has about 5 clinical incidents under her belt.

I don' t think anyone even bothers telling her anymore she is so stroppy about it as it wasn't sorted in the first place.

Well, they know better now. She is going to be fired in two weeks if all of her stuff isn't up to date. I lost patience with her as of yesterday.

 

[-Ariel-]

Just curious, how good were her people skills, they must have been great to hide some defiiciencies...
Does she come across as confident? Caring? Eager to do a good job...
I'm just curious, I mean you have seen alot of bullshit, so it would make sense for you to be able to discern, even with a 6th sense like quality bullshit that comes through your office.

 

[heatherrae]

Just curious, how good were her people skills, they must have been great to hide some defiiciencies...
Does she come across as confident? Caring? Eager to do a good job...
I'm just curious, I mean you have seen alot of bullshit, so it would make sense for you to be able to discern, even with a 6th sense like quality bullshit that comes through your office.

She is a grandmotherly type who came across as someone who was so detail oriented as to border of obsessive compulsive type behavior, which, believe it or not, is a great trait in a law office. However, she is that way about miniscule things that don't help anything and seriously is missing the big picture. I now know that she can't think on her own. You have to tell her how to do EVERYTHING. I was showing her the calendar list of her tasks and she started re-writing all the items on a legal pad for some unexplainable reason. I said, "just print it if you want to work from a hard copy." "Oh, you can print it? HOW?" I was thinking, "Gee, I don't know woman, maybe by clicking on that big icon at the top that says 'PRINT' in bold flashy letters!"

She really makes me crazy.

I was in a rush to hire someone because my last secretary moved suddenly and only gave 2 weeks notice and I wanted someone to come in immediately so that the other secretary could train her for 2 weeks before she left.

 

[-Ariel-]

She is a grandmotherly type who came across as someone who was so detail oriented as to border of obsessive compulsive type behavior, which, believe it or not, is a great trait in a law office. However, she is that way about miniscule things that don't help anything and seriously is missing the big picture. I now know that she can't think on her own. You have to tell her how to do EVERYTHING. I was showing her the calendar list of her tasks and she started re-writing all the items on a legal pad for some unexplainable reason. I said, "just print it if you want to work from a hard copy." "Oh, you can print it? HOW?" I was thinking, "Gee, I don't know woman, maybe by clicking on that big icon at the top that says 'PRINT' in bold flashy letters!"

She really makes me crazy.

I was in a rush to hire someone because my last secretary moved suddenly and only gave 2 weeks notice and I wanted someone to come in immediately so that the other secretary could train her for 2 weeks before she left.

Yeah the obsessive compulsive would throw any one for a loop, and grandmotherly type, who doesn't want a secretary like that? Well she wreaked of promise... subconscious associations blow sometimes...
Well with her and shit talking drama secretary, which you've now experienced both polarities of inefficiency, hopefully third time is a charm.

 

[heatherrae]

Yeah the obsessive compulsive would throw any one for a loop, and grandmotherly type, who doesn't want a secretary like that? Well she wreaked of promise... subconscious associations blow sometimes...
Well with her and shit talking drama secretary, which you've now experienced both polarities of inefficiency, hopefully third time is a charm.

I'll take my time hiring the new employee. I'm looking at resumes now to bring on another secretary. If the new one is good, I will probably fire this one and then have time to look for the another one to take her place.

 

[bw1]

I'll take my time hiring the new employee. I'm looking at resumes now to bring on another secretary. If the new one is good, I will probably fire this one and then have time to look for the another one to take her place.

I can do special things

 

[billfred]

She is a grandmotherly type who came across as someone who was so detail oriented as to border of obsessive compulsive type behavior, which, believe it or not, is a great trait in a law office. However, she is that way about miniscule things that don't help anything and seriously is missing the big picture. I now know that she can't think on her own. You have to tell her how to do EVERYTHING. I was showing her the calendar list of her tasks and she started re-writing all the items on a legal pad for some unexplainable reason. I said, "just print it if you want to work from a hard copy." "Oh, you can print it? HOW?" I was thinking, "Gee, I don't know woman, maybe by clicking on that big icon at the top that says 'PRINT' in bold flashy letters!"

She really makes me crazy.

I was in a rush to hire someone because my last secretary moved suddenly and only gave 2 weeks notice and I wanted someone to come in immediately so that the other secretary could train her for 2 weeks before she left.

Keep in mind, you are working in Kentucky.

 

[walliwalibus]

The hot secretary is sucking who?

Does she suck?