Tomorrow I’m going to be working some overtime. I’m coming in around 10 a.m. and meeting Mr. BIL at 11 a.m. It’s the Giant Office Reorg of 2007. I just hope we get everything accomplished. I’m starting to doubt it can ever happen.
For three days we’ve been looking for a client folder. Mr. BIL had me look in my area, the paralegal’s area, the upstairs files, the main files, and even in his office (when I could get in there). I looked and looked and after three days I just couldn’t find that file.
So today I put out an email APB asking all of the attorneys to look in their offices.
Two minutes later, Mr. BIL holds up a folder while sitting at his desk. “I found it!” he exclaimed with a laugh.
“Where was it?” I asked.
“Right where I put it. Here in the center of my desk. You need to get with the program.”
All I could do was laugh. I mean that is literally the ONE place I didn’t look, presuming (I know, stupid thing to do) that he had already looked DEAD IN FRONT OF HIM on the desk. I looked at the stacks on the corner, his bookcase, his two credenzas, his table. But I did NOT look in the very middle of his desk because I figured that was probably the ONLY place he DID look.
So that’s another anecdote of what I’m working with over here. He also scared the life out of me today. I was doing invoicing and had a stack of letters for him to sign. Underneath the letters were some charts outlining the financial situation of a large (read: rich) client of ours. Well, after I got done with all the invoice letters I noticed the financial charts were gone. “Oh no!” I thought. “I’ve just mailed out an invoice to a client that has this other client’s complete financial information!”
Frantic I looked all over for those charts. When I couldn’t find them I finally approached Mr. BIL. “Did you take Client A’s charts?” I asked him.
“Yes. Why?”
“Dude – I thought I had gotten them mixed up with my invoices! I was in a panic!”
“You need to organize better out there.”
Oi.