Why Am I So Unlucky Lately?!

Can you believe I actually got fired today due to linguistic inability?! It came as such a surprise to me when at the end of the day, I was summoned to the other partner's room, and said my services are terminated. They are paying me one and half months in advance as compensation. Apparently they preferred someone who can speak a variety of dialects to handle the clients my Boss has.

In the first place, when I went for the interview, I already stated that I am not able to speak any dialect, but if they really needed someone who can speak dialect, I can try to pick up. So I was told I was actually supposed to be working for one of the other lawyers who would be going to court and I had to follow to court and prepare all the necessary documentation. Then on my first day, they put me under the big Boss himself - the one with all the foreign and elderly clients who cannot speak my language and I cannot understand when they talk too fast.

Is there anything wrong with just knowing how to speak English?! They hired me despite knowing that, and now they removed me for the same reason?! Apparently I got into some trouble with one of the Indonesian Associates who thought I was from Indonesia (not the first time someone think I am Indonesian so I am used to that already), and started speaking to me in Bahasa. I thought he was talking on the phone so did not reply. In the end he had to raise his voice at me just when my Boss happened to walk past. I apologised and said that I did not know he was talking to me, and besides, I do not speak Bahasa (at least not yet). Anyway there was still some miscommunication as I could hardly understand his English so I made some mistakes in some of the documents and he started screaming at me again. I had to amend the documents five times (first was the miscommunication, the rest was because he could not make up his mind thus kept changing the wordings) before he was finally satisfied.

I guess also whenever a dialect-speaking client called I had to pass the phone to my colleague who could understand the dialect. Thus a lot of times, my colleague ended up solving the problem for me. Anyway I believe along the way something happened and some people said some things so now the bosses think I am totally incompetent.

Plus the fact that whenever I was not sure of things, I had to spend some time reading up and researching, and asking for guidance on how best to handle so as to solve the problem in the best way, thus people must have felt that I am really incapable of handling matters. But it is not as if I ask all the time, only once in a while when I was really stumped on what to do. And, as usual, I still meet people who take credit for what I do. Is it any wonder why I got fired then?

Why am I so unlucky lately?! Now I am out of love, probably soon to be out of family, and now out of a job as well. The only good thing that came out of it was that I have two interviews scheduled already, one tomorrow and the other on Tuesday. Strange coincidence to receive emails on the job interviews the very day I lost my job. And it was on the resume I sent in quite some time back, before this recent job. Now I have to go through the entire tiring procedure again.....

Why can't I just have some good luck for once?!