ZOOT'S BLOG
Fully clothed yet strangely inarticulate …
Tuesday, September 20, 2005 11:05 AM
Do you ever commit yourself to a course of action, which you know to be right, but which you somehow wish you’d never embarked upon??Yes, that’s right, I’ve gone and got myself a new job and this week is my last week at my friendly, funny little law firm where they don’t seem to mind that I spend all day reading Blue Sun Room items and surfing the net. As of Monday I shall be with a big, shiny firm, where they’ll expect me to work hard and get results …
Why oh why did I decide to do this??
Yes I know I thought I was bored and that fanfic was not a way to advance my legal career, but now I think I might have been wrong …
Someone tell me it’s just pre-performance anxiety, a stage fright of sorts, if you will …
Thing is, I got sent a letter from my new firm in preparation for my advent, well not so much a letter as a prior warning in an envelope… It was a memo all about what I am to do in my first few days of “induction” and how, if I don’t read the three staff manuals handed to me in a “branded” bag and follow them explicitly, I will be guilty of a “serious disciplinary offence” …
I feel like I’m being punished prospectively just in case I screw up and I’m as scared as all hell! Erk! Hopefully this Memo is just an example of HR gone crazy, but what if I’ve made a horrible mistake???
Worry-wort Zoot (I’m thinking of changing my name, it's got a sort of puritanical ring to it)
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