I used to enjoy my job, now I dread it - Anonymous employee Fragomen Employee Review

There was once a time at Fragomen during which I enjoyed coming to work. During which I felt that my superiors valued my desire to learn and to gain as much experience and esoteric knowledge as possible. I felt appreciated, I felt that my work meant something. Now, I feel an overwhelming pressure to do as much work as possible, with little reward or positive reinforcement. The morale in the office has sunken to an all-time low, as it is obvious that superiors consider paralegals to be easily replaceable. The feedback from superiors is almost always negative, as they seem to hone in on your mistakes and fail to acknowledge your strengths. Additionally, much of the blame for said mistakes is placed on the paralegals, the employees who have the least experience. I’m really not sure how that makes sense, at all. Especially when superiors review and sign everything that paralegals produce. Also, I’m not sure how paralegals are expected to produce as much as possible, when their ability to produce and file petitions is determined by the attorneys’ ability to review and sign them. If an attorney takes an inordinately long time to sign something, that, for some reason, reflects poorly on the paralegal’s ability to timely file things. Again, not sure how that makes sense. Further, new HR policies have made coming to work all the more cumbersome. Employees used to have flexibility in their hours and enjoyed a functional work/life balance. Now, HR is more concerned with whether or not you showed up at exactly the right time. Doesn’t matter if you do good work, and doesn’t matter if your work schedule doesn’t affect your ability to produce. Doesn’t matter if your clients work in places that are hours ahead of or behind you, you just better make sure you clock in at exactly the right time. It’s ridiculous and a waste to spend time on something so trivial, when there is actual work to be done.