two faced

people. i think at some point in an average person’s life there are moments when we become two-faced and act completely different. however you wouldn’t normally expect that of people who have received a post-undergraduate education and have been participating in the bigger world, aka real world.

i suppose lawyers being two faced isn’t very surprising since they’re sometimes better known as “liars.” but that’s only in court isn’t it? when they’re trying to fulfill their clients’ needs? not when you’re speaking of some intern right?

wrong.

i’ve been translating documents over documents the past 4 months at this firm. i don’t have any formal translating experience nor do i claim my korean to be superb. i always tell people my korean sucks. especially when lawyers ask me to translate legal documents, which is basically in a completely different language requiring me to choose from sometimes 7 different meaning of the same word. even people in their 30s have a hard time telling me the definition of a word. so i always told them as a disclaimer that my korean is not good.

apparently they were bringing complaints to the lawyer that hired me. 1) they don’t notify/ask him if they can ask me for translations. i wasn’t hired as a translator yet they used me as one, only 2 of them have paid me extra in addition to my monthly pay. 2) when i tell them my korean is not good they still ask me to translate it. so how is it suppose to make me feel when i find that they’re complaining to HIM not even to me, the one who actually translated the damn thing.

whatever. i’m so over it.