Just got a call from Eileen this morning - she is so pissed off they docked her 2 days pay on our last paycheck that she's as determined as I am to look for another job. Sure she did take her vacation 3 months before her anniversary date (its that thing where after a year of working here, you get one week vacation, after 2 years, 2 weeks, etc) and she took 2 extra days, but when she had her medical problems at the beginning of the year, the managing partner told her to take any time off she needed. Eileen works on straight salary, no OT, and we just finished tax season recently where we had to work 6 days a week... she also stays here until 7:30-8:00 just about every night so she's pissed they didn't just give her those 2 days as goodwill. I know this company will also screw me when I leave - I just know they're not gonna give me my vacation pay even though I've accrued it. I need to leave this company - I've been here a year and a half and they started me on like a high school grad's salary even though I have a BA in Economics from UCLA (not one of those bullshit colleges either) - it was understandable back then because I was just an assistant. After 5-6 months of working here, they gave me a promotion to my current position as business manager because the guy left, but they didn't give me a raise! (Kristi - the roomie who just moved out - was telling me to check the labor laws to see if it is even legal to give a promotion without any raise). I have way more responsibility in this position (I have full responsibility for a couple clients' accounts) as opposed to just doing what the business managers told me to do (file, write checks, make deposits). I think the last assistant Eileen and I had was making the same salary as I was - how screwed up is that?? I guess you can't pay any less than what I'm getting but still - do I have to go in and demand a raise? I've been at this business manager position for a freakin year now. Don't companies give you reviews after like 6 months?

Ok - I just got a call from Stan - he's at the airport in Oregon and he was promising me that when he gets back, his highest priority is to interview, etc... cool, so I shouldn't feel bad about leaving. I told him that I could stay until he found someone new to take over this position and that I was gonna move back home and study for the LSATs or CPAs or something for a couple months. Mona (my old boss, the criminal defense attorney) already looked over my resume and helped me with the wording, style, etc. She is awesome. The problem right now is finding the cover letter Mona helped me on last time. I need to tweek it a little to update it but it was an awesome cover letter. It isn't on my computer at home anymore - I don't know why but I'm assuming it was Dante because he messes everything up so I'll just blame him and I'm probably right - and I found one copy of it when I was cleaning out my room at the old house. I had it in my hand last week when I was moving stuff up from the car to the apartment but now I can't find it!! That was probably the only thing I really needed in all that junk too. Oh well... I'll find a solution...

Shit, what if Stan finds someone before I get another job?? Nothing like the panic factor to get me off my butt and start applying. I could probably work for Jay for a little while until I find something permanent that offers the salary I want. I got hired at this job 5 days after I put together my resume, cover sheet and started faxing them out... I can do it.