YOU KNOW YOU WORK AT A LAW FIRM WHEN...

[Forwarded by a paralegal who say's it's all too true....]

You know you work at a law firm when...

1. Your resume is on a diskette in your pocket.

2. It's dark when you drive home from work.

3. When your boss says, "We have a Brief we need filed tomorrow-I need you here early", it means: "Come in early, wait all day, skip lunch and plan to stay late because I won't give you the first draft until 3:30 pm and we really have until the last Federal Express leaves the airport to get it out".

4. You get really excited about a 2% pay raise.

5. Your office closes for a holiday and all you can think about is the hours you'll have to make up for taking that day off.

6. A partner comes into your office and wants you to work on a project, saying: "make it perfect, but, don't spend a lot of time on it because we can't bill the client for this." You're left wondering what the heck you're supposed to do. You do the work, and get absolutely no credit for it in the end, since it wasn't "billable" hours.

7. The firm alarm goes off in the building, and no one in your office moves.

8. Your biggest loss from the system crash is that you lose your best jokes, all of your music and/or pictures you may have saved.

9. Your supervisor doesn't have the ability to do your job. Most days, you have the ability to do your boss's job!

10. Salaries of the members on the "Executive Committee" are higher than all the Third World Countries' annual budgets combined.

11. Free food left over from a meeting is your main staple.

12. You're already late on the work task that you "just" got.

13. You "get" just about all of the above.