Recently, someone pointed out that I haven’t dedicated much airtime to another unique perspective: that of secretaries at law firms. It’s safe to say that no one else sits in such a prime position to observe absurd workplace antics. So today we have a list of observations from an experienced legal secretary, who also happens […]

“Hello?”
“Hi Grandma, it’s Melissa.”
“What?”
“It’s Melissa!”
“Who?”
“MELISSA!”
“Oh, hello.”
“How is everything? How are you feeling?”
“Well, I have that leg thing, and there’s the stomach thing, and some asthma recently and my eyes haven’t been too good. But I’m still kicking.”
“You sound in pretty good spirits. How have they been treating you down there?”
“The food here is dreadful.”
“It didn’t […]

And here we have the horror story of the day thanks to K. I stared at it for a few minutes in utter disbelief, but then decided it was incredible enough to be completely true:
Before I became an attorney I worked as a paralegal at a New York
City (VERY white shoe) law firm. It […]

Things have calmed down a bit, the word is out, and the eliminated pressure to keep secrets feels like a lifted cement block. Sure, there have been consequences (my parents are now anxious about internet stalkers, so as a favor to them please refrain from stalking me if you had any plans to do so) […]

“So, what do you do?”
It’s the single most important question in Manhattan conversation, the critical point in which your identity, or at least a packaged version of it, is revealed. We define each other instantly upon hearing the answer - he’s an accountant, she does tech support for a website, he’s a management consultant. This […]