I’ll officially be done by first month of articling tomorrow. I think things are going okay so far. I’ve gotten interesting work. Done the best work I can. Tried to remain sane will doing it.
This past week I’ve been having some problems with a partner at work. Well, maybe they aren’t problems maybe it’s just my neuroses. That’s part of the problem. I can’t tell if there is a problem.
Let me tell you the story. Last summer I did a lot of work for this partner–let’s call him or her X. X seemed to like the work I did and gave me a lot of it. At the end of the summer X and I worked on a project that I know I put less in that I could have on. Honestly I was bagged and I had a bigger assignment pressing me. I didn’t completely crap out but I certainly didn’t excel.
Fast forward to articling. I see X in the hall. X says he or she is happy to see me. X, via a third party, assigns a large and important project to me. I haul ass on the project. Get it in done way ahead of schedule and better than that same project was done last year–this particular project recurs, you see. Anyhow, X has been feeding all of his or her other work to other students. X has made snide comments about the number of drafts that I did on the written portion of the project. When editing that portion of the project X wrote a couple of snide comments in the margins. In short, X seems to be being a bit of a jerk. It’s causing me some problems. I really like X. He or she is one of my favourite partners at the firm but I feel like he or she is made at me for some reason. I don’t want to go talk to X until I’m sure there is a problem otherwise I will come off as a nut job.
What’s a student to do? Thoughts?
Theory of the Case 