It was just like a normal work day, I got up at 7:30am, ate some breakfast, turned on the news and waited for 8:15am to roll around so I could clock into work on my laptop. I am currently pregnant so I work from home Mondays, Tuesday’s and Thursday’s just to limit my time in the office due to covid. So, finally 8:15am comes around and I clock in and wait for my attorneys to send me emails with work.

Side note, I am a legal secretary at a large law firm and I work for four attorneys. So as I am sitting on my couch waiting on emails to arrive, I have the mornings news on. The news anchor comes on and says “make sure you submit your snow pictures, so we can air them this morning”. Now I never do anything like this but this morning was different. My four year old son and I had went out to play in the snow the night before because we had got about 3 inches over the weekend. As odds would have it I also took a pic of him while we were out playing. So, I went on my phone, submitted the pic I had took the night before and waited to see if his picture would be chosen to be on the news. Well I be darn, it was!!! I was so excited because like I said earlier I never entertain those kind of things. That moment made me so happy and I just knew it was going to be a good day after that.

Finally, I begin to get emails from my attorneys so at that point I start working. The day is flying by because from about 10 to 2 I am extremely busy. At about 2:30 I take a break to fix me some lunch. I only took a 30 min lunch to make sure I finish my work before having to clock out to get my bonus son to basketball practice by 4. So, I clock back into work at about 3 and again waited for emails because I was all caught up with the ones I had received earlier.

So, 3:30 comes around and I see an email pop up from my CEO and my heart dropped. Let me take you guys back a little before I tell the rest of my story. Two weeks ago, we had seven litigation attorneys announce they were leaving the firm to start their own firm. This was a huge deal! I knew this wasn’t good because it meant we would be loosing money. I had so many thoughts running through my head when I first found out. Like omg their will be lay offs, what if I get laid off? Well, none of my attorneys left so I should be good, that doesn’t matter I could still get laid off. So for the next two weeks my mind was everywhere, while trying not to stress too much being that I am seven months pregnant. So, back to the email from my CEO…. before even opening and reading the email something told me what it was. I opened the email and their it was, my worse nightmare. My CEO telling me they had to let me go due to the recent departures of the seven attorneys. Tears immediately begin to flow down my face. Honestly, I couldn’t believe what I was reading. I was devastated and angry. Devastated because I just lost my job and I had never been through something like this in my life, not to mention I am seven months pregnant. Angry, because my CEO thought it was okay to email me something this personal instead of calling, but hey can’t expect too much from people. I immediately called my fiancé and just cried and his exact words to me was “don’t worry about it babe, I got you” and that made me cry even more lol. Here I was unemployed, not knowing what my next move would be….. stay tuned for more!