Figured I’d pass this along. I know it was only three contract attorneys and the firm isn’t a big player, but I just was dumbfounded by the fact that they called today to tell us the project is over. The firm is closed today. It couldn’t wait until Sunday evening. Or even early Monday morning?
Merry Christmas, eh?
"As I’m walking back into my apartment this afternoon, I heard the final few rings of the telephone and the answering machine turn on. A staff person from the attorney temporary staffing agency I’d been working for these past few months was leaving me a message telling me that the project I had been working on at Harris Beach PLLC on Wall Street was over effective immediately. The firm’s current advertisement hook is 'Lawyers you’ll swear by. Not at.' How funny. Real professional too. Well, I had a few choice words for those attorneys today, that’s for sure. It’s unconscionable to call someone on Christmas Eve, when the law firm is actually closed, to tell them that their job is over effective immediately. Great timing. Wonderful way to usher in the Christmas holiday. Here’s your hat, what’s your hurry, right? It couldn’t wait until Sunday evening or even Monday morning?"
http://laidofflawyer.wordpress.com/2009/12/24/bah-humbug/
54 comments:
The Indians dont care that its Christmas! Indeed, they dont give a hoot about anything American. They are just here to take our jobs and American money and send it back to their third world nation, where the loyalties lie.
Since when was Christmas a reason to have to act half way human?
Yet another hatchet in already broken temp backs. I can barely get out of bed - my vertebrae are shattered.
How yous doin'? Merry X-mas Happy New Unemployed Year.
You are lucky they called - one winter day I dragged my sorry broke ass to the assignment, spent 15 minutes scraping frozen snow off my ass - and then they came in said the project is over. I spent subway money, coffee and breakfast money - which if you are broke is a lot - plus just the day before I had given up another assignment. Best to get out of this world - it will drive you insane.
It would be quite interesting to know if this was a screw up by the client, the partner, the senior associate, the junior associate, the staffing firm, or if there suddenly was a settlement by the client with the advesary. If there was a settlement, what can you do? That is the practice of law - maybe it all came out of left field. Possibly the client, and the client's advesary had a very very successul holiday dinner at the Four Seasons, and over that nightcap, it was settled...seen it happen guys! Could have been tax considerations to have a settlement or whatever prior to 12/31/2009 and/or before the client or the client's GC took off for skiing in St. Moritz et al and would be out of touch....recall we are the furthest down the totem poll in this game, we are expendable... but that is how it always is in the law. Doc review is not permanent, it isn't a subsidy, and it isn't welfare....That said, I totally sympathize with you...it sucks! Move on.
I am sorry. What a shitty story. I hope you had a good holiday regardless. Let's hope that 2010 is better!
1:01
To answer your question: since everyone who comes to this country started to take Christmas away from us, that's when. I don't know why the first commenter singled out the Indians. The blame lies in all the people who come here and want to take away the traditions that made this the greatest national on the face of the earth!!!
Christmas used to be a time when people would go out of their way to protect each other. It has turned into a materialistic shopping spree with a proliferation of scams and mandatory gift giving.
Is this agency legal support personnel (LPS) by any chance? Was on a project w those guys about a month and about a quarter of attorneys got ph call from a staff person late at night on eve of thanksgiving saying "project has ended". It was a wed night, and wondered too if they could not have waited till sunday. Worse, there were about three announcements that same day telling attorneys in the room there were substantially more docs being loaded and project will run at least couple of more weeks. Announcement was made directly by client rep and repeated later by admin.
If more attorneys stand up to these types of treatment, perhaps agencies would do more to ensure some level of professionalism.
You people all suck, if you didn't get accepted to a 1st tier law school the jokes on you, why bother? paralegals make more $ than you losers..sadness..
"Are there no prisons?" asked Scrooge. "Plenty of prisons," said the gentleman, laying down the pen again. "And the Union workhouses?" demanded Scrooge. "Are they still in operation?" "They are. Still," returned the gentleman, "I wish I could say they were not." "The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?" said Scrooge. "Both very busy, sir." "Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course," said Scrooge. "I'm very glad to hear it." "Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude," returned the gentleman, "a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?" "Nothing!" Scrooge replied. "You wish to be anonymous?" "I wish to be left alone," said Scrooge. "Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned: they cost enough: and those who are badly off must go there." "Many can't go there; and many would rather die." "If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
THROW OFF YOUR CHAINS SNUGGIE PEOPLE!!!
YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT THE DEBT THAT ENSLAVES YOU!!
VIVE LA REVOLUCION!!
VIVE LA REVOLUCION!!
VIVE LA REVOLUCION!!
Well, you at least have more time now to find the next assignment. There is no good time to get the phone call. Suck it up and move on.
The elitist wicked WASP and JEW money grubbers and devils who control law have deemmed you, and all who are not they, undesirables. You are useless to them. You are beneath pond scum to them. Recognize this fact and quit trying to infiltrate their inner sanctums. The gay among them won't even let you untouchables invade their inner rectums much less their golden walled inner elitist society sanctums.
Know your role (which is, to the elite, to wither and die harmlessly).
Get out of law now. You all will be better off the sooner you leave.
"I like the Nigerians. They're so nice!"
Justice charged Abdulmutallab, who is the son of a wealthy Nigerian banker, with attempting to destroy the Northwest Airlines plane......
All Nigerians out of America!
Indians are blood suckers and have no loyalty to America.
Who the fuck cares about India?
It's a waste zone.
11:38 said: "Know your role (which is, to the elite, to wither and die harmlessly).
I am almost there....withered and broken and almost dead - they have nothing to fear from me - bound by chains of debt and poverty and no health insurance I have been a weak ghost....hardly able to challenge anyone or anything...they created a good system....I feel like a Dickensian character...
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My comments above revised minus typographical errors:
The elitist wicked WASP and JEW money grubbers and devils who control law have deemed you, and all who are not they, undesirables.
You are useless to them. You are beneath pond scum to them.
Recognize this fact and quit trying to infiltrate their inner sanctums. The gay among them won't even let you untouchables invade their inner rectums much less their golden walled, inner elitist society sanctums.
Know your role (which, to the elite, is to wither and die harmlessly).
Get out of law now. You all will be better off the sooner you leave.
PS: 12:25....you are among many who have suffered the same or similar fate. Now you, we, must separate from law, regroup and move on. One must separate themselves from the wicked to flourish. Let the devils have their domain...their so-called 'noble' 'profession'. For that 'profession' crumbles as I write this because its foundation, the billable hour scam, cracks moment. The world now knows this and it is only a matter of time before law is exposed and destroyed for the fraud that it is.
May God bless you all and may you and yours have a happy holiday season.
Amen.
We now know why I no longer 'practice' 'law'.....yet another typo in my prior post...
" because its foundation, the billable hour scam, cracks moment.".....Should read: ...because its foundation, the billable hour scam, cracks moment by moment.
God bless.
Why don't certain firms respect Christmas?
Please elaborate upon your question. Have you seen firms' disrespect of christmas? If so, how did they disprespect christmas? Would love to know.
Hey whiggers - how yous doin'? Pops wanted to wish all the white men Merry X-mas but I want to wish all of you - Merry X-mas, Happy Holidays, Merry Hanukkah and Kwanza, Happy Eid and Diwali and Winter Solstice and New Year and Year of the Tiger and benefit extension!!! God Bless all of you - keep the faith whiggers!!!
How do you expect to be the prophet we need to lead us out of the metaphorical desert of law when you can't submit a sermon to us without typos? Part of being an effective prophet is editing for typos before making sermons available for public consumption.
Now, go back up to the mountain and carefully edit your inspired words for next time. We'll be waiting here in the legal desert, with the non-elite WASPs and Jews among us, who were left for dead by their own peeps.....
6:05 is right. We may be unemployed or temps but even we are not that retarded. Please descend from the mountain when you are truly ready - and don't waste our precious time. I have things to do - TV shows to watch, blogs to read, sleep and eat. I don't have time to waste.
An anti-semitic prophet (who can't even put a proper sentence together) is ready to lead us to salvation. The characters that comment on this blog never cease to amaze me.
He's also an anti-WASPite. Don't give the Jews all the victimhood here, like they get for the Holocaust.
WASP's are dwindling my friends. Less and less to worry about, they have been drunkards and alcoholics and drug users for many years because of weird societal pressures put on them and due to domineering mothers and cold distant fathers. The Jews, however, continue to gain ground.
The prophet John Bungsolaphagus despises everyone equally.
But just think of all the great drinks the WASPs have given us:
1) Gin & Tonic - a summer classic (with derivative Tom Collins, which is Gin & Tom Collins mix.);
2) Martini (a TRUE martini is made with gin and a normal amount of dry vermouth, not these Grey Goose vodka monstrosities with no gin. Also they are ALWAYS stirred, not shaken. That WASP James Bond was supposed to be 'different' in that regard. Now it's the norm, and the bartenders don't even know not to shake unless they're told);
3) Manhattan - ah, that sickening feeling of rye;
4) India Pale Ale - when a beer isn't enough, but a bitter beer that's so hoppy that it tastes like stale, chilled urine is just fine.
And what alcoholic beverages have the Jews given us? NONE. They most they can lay claim to in the food/beverage world is something else that makes you have heartburn and fart: deli food. And throw some intestinal cloggage and constipation in there with the matzoh ball soup. That's it.
I am most amazed that someone still has an answering machine. Are we sure this wasn't originally posted on a physical bulletin board in 1995?
Rory Boy!! Merry Christmas little buddy!! Same to your Pops!!
Here is my wish list for next year (since I got jack this year...)
1. Full length mink coat
2. Long string of real pearls
3. New wardrobe of the finest fabric, workmanship, and style
4. New boats (sail & power)
5. Brand spankin' new house
6. Trust fund
7. Lipo and botox
8. 21 year old construction worker with massive muscles and handsome face for meaningless interlude
Hope you all had a wonderful holiday and that Santa was good to you. Santa obviously hates my guts - he didn't even leave me a lump of coal or a snuggie this year. Santa, was it something I said?
8:40 is right. Deli food and weird soups and Joe Lieberman is what the Jews have given us. Great. Personally I don't mind not getting into their inner sanctum but I would like to drop something in Lieberman's rectum. He totally fucked up the health care plan -
3:08: Please elaborate upon your question. Have you seen firms' disrespect of christmas? If so, how did they disprespect christmas? What types of folk run such firms? Would love to know.
Did someone utter (or type) The Prophet's name in vain or sarcasm?
The great one has foreseen and predicted the demise of law, for most, for years on sites such as ATL and JDU.
He has correctly pointed out the identities and evil behavioral patterns of the wicked who control much of law and who cause most of the legal profession misery that most of you suffer.
Yet, many of you spite the great one. Many of you still live in denial of his wisdom and the truth about law.
The legal uncle tom admin of JDU has foresaken the great truthsayers of our day like the Prophet and L4L among others in a misguided desire to appear more in tune with those who run biglaw.
Then Admin allegedly left biglaw on his own accord when we all know that it is much more likely that biglaw spit him out.
The evidence surrounds all of you fools. It has been well exposed by the great one among many more articulate others. Law is a disaster for most but the few and fortunate, mostly of the chosen and WASPy tribes. You can delude yourselves all you wish. You can chide the wise words of the Prophet.
You can delude yourselves that the wicked in law...those who shun you at every turn....those who cause you misery constantly....are Nigerians or perhaps, Mongolians. But all a fool has to do is to see who runs law. Check the names on the letterhead of most firms at every level.
Do not stone the truthsayers. Stone the wicked who control law and your lives. Acknowledge the real and shun the false. The truth hurts. Deal with reality even if you don't revere the great one.
But you should all be thankful that the Prophet and the likes of L4L have blessed you with the truth. Utilize the truth in an effort to part from the wickedness that is law.
Leave law ASAP.
How about the Boxing Leprechaun in the subway ads? Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald? No WASPs or Jews there. Only Boxing Leprechauns.
Check out this garbage piece:
http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/how_5_grads_survived_a_recessionand_how_you_can_too/
Name one other profession that is led by a licensing authority that has a propaganda arm advocating against most members economic interest.
@11:32am:
Medicine. The AMA is in favor of government seizure of the health care industry, which will rape private practitioners in favor of the institutional crony-looters.
its called a settlement. what do you expect them to do.
The 12:58PM blog directly above this one, and the 3:58PM blog at the top of the list of this blog chain each know "the score"...it is the successful attorney's hest outcome. It is called "settlement".....heh guys, it isn't a subsidy, and it isn't welfare. It isn't about the racist comments made herein by many, it merely the execution of a profession. The execution of the professionals duty is the only thing that counts, not all this idiotic racist blather...what law school, undergraduate, and/or primary school did you all attend? More importantly my key wonderment is whether or not those of you who participate in such racist blather even had a top notch quality basic classical education - supposedly one of the main way people reach a level of merit that then allows them to be allegedly chosen to enter a profession, unless there are other criteria these days not being disclosed.....true wonderment. An embarassment to yourselves, and certainly to your parents who probably helped get you there.....really! Look in the mirror and grow up. No one owes you anything life.
1:29, did you get the 'classical education' of which you so ineloquently write? It doesn't appear so, given the poor quality of your writing and your use of unimpressive phrases that make no sense. "My key wonderment..."? What's a 'wonderment?'
The ABA Journal article - actually a fluff piece - fails to address one key issue: how much student loan debt did all these wonderful legal survivors have upon graduating into a recessed economy? Certainly not the $140,000+ that today's grads carry.
Good HOlidaay!
Egg Nogg laced with vodka.
Ok. I comment on various comments of lemmings as follows:
Anonymous said...
How about the Boxing Leprechaun in the subway ads? Fitzgerald & Fitzgerald? No WASPs or Jews there. Only Boxing Leprechauns.
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There are those irish who often achieve psuedo WASP and or patrician status. This happens from time to time in law. Occasionally you see this with fair skinned I-Tal-ians too. Sometimes some I-Tal-ians almost pass for Jews too. Nothing new or unsual here folks.
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Anonymous said...
The 12:58PM blog directly above this one, and the 3:58PM blog at the top of the list of this blog chain each know "the score"...it is the successful attorney's hest outcome. It is called "settlement".....heh guys, it isn't a subsidy, and it isn't welfare. It isn't about the racist comments made herein by many, it merely the execution of a profession. The execution of the professionals duty is the only thing that counts, not all this idiotic racist blather...what law school, undergraduate, and/or primary school did you all attend? More importantly my key wonderment is whether or not those of you who participate in such racist blather even had a top notch quality basic classical education - supposedly one of the main way people reach a level of merit that then allows them to be allegedly chosen to enter a profession, unless there are other criteria these days not being disclosed.....true wonderment. An embarassment to yourselves, and certainly to your parents who probably helped get you there.....really! Look in the mirror and grow up. No one owes you anything life.
1:29 PM
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I don't know what the hell this fool was talking about. Nothing racist in pointing out who controls law and makes most of our lives miserable. And it is not the mongolians. Deal with it.
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Anonymous said...
1:29, did you get the 'classical education' of which you so ineloquently write? It doesn't appear so, given the poor quality of your writing and your use of unimpressive phrases that make no sense. "My key wonderment..."? What's a 'wonderment?'
The ABA Journal article - actually a fluff piece - fails to address one key issue: how much student loan debt did all these wonderful legal survivors have upon graduating into a recessed economy? Certainly not the $140,000+ that today's grads carry.
2:34 PM
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Here here! What the fuck is 'wonderment'. I would be smitten with wonderment if it was common for shitlaw firms to pay a decent salary, with decent benefits and decent treatment of their associates. I would gaze with 'wonderment' upon the lawyers who are not amongst the most vile and unethical creatures on god's green earth.
Get your heads out of your assholes lemmings. Law is for the priviledged. The elite. The pedigreed fortunate sons and daughters of elitist, classist and racist WASPS and Jews. To pretend otherwise is to commit suicide. Deal with it.
ASIA
Another Smelly Indian in America
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Hi. Off topic comment. 1999-2000, sometime. There was an article by a freelancer on one of the big law sites about a guy who was doing doc review in NYC and backpacking when he wasn't working. Highlights I remember: a paralegal with a baseball bat, $60,000 a year, descriptions of backpacking through Latin America & crossing the border back into the US, something about the temp agency lady, and, at the end of the article, running into someone from one of his doc review jobs in the subway and being embarrassed. It was written with an overall cynical tone, and was very well written, the writer obviously had some talent.
Anyone have the link or know who the author was? Google isn't finding it. I always wondered what happened to that guy. If he got out of it somehow and became a freelance writer? Thanks.
To 1:29...I don't really care to apply myself at a level that Iknow should be doing for this blog.....I prefer like veryone else tomerely get my point across.....most everything that is written on this blog reflects mediocrity...and before leaving the site (always hoping to find something useful) I just write quickly usually so out of frustration....I am finding myself checking it more infrequently....seemingly becoming a complete waste of time to read nothing but raciost blather, whining, class warfare, and victiminization...it really is quite tiring.
12:16, what else is there to talk about? This is a protest blog, anti-establishment. And it's true: Elite WASPs and Jews do control BigLaw. It is definitely un-PC to say that, especially about the Jews, but it's true. (Note: the poster didn't single out Jews and WASPs in toto; he singled out ELITE WASPs and ELITE Jews. There are plenty of non-Elite WASPs and non-Elite Jews doing doc review.
This blog is for temporary attorneys, who by nature are resentful because they were sold an expensive bill of goods (law school) under false pretenses, and put themselves in major debt to do it. Now they've been shut out of the legal field. Do you expect happiness and sugar and fluff?
How about you reduce your visits here to zero, and instead spend your time on the ABA Establishment blogs?
All of you are idiots - I only like Sonia's comments. She sounds like the only sane one here. Fuck all of you...
to 12:16...why would I want to spend any time with any attorney blog, but more importantly, you convey your ignorance when you assume I am what you like to label as being "establishment". If you were not interested in being part of that "establishment" budm you'd never have gone to law schol or into the practice of law....THAT my friend is one of the most establishment, as you like to call it, things you could do....if you were not interested in that path, you'd have chosen teaching....or done something in the arts, and heh, maybe even comedy...please..you are tiring.
And you're arrogant with the "you're tiring" comment, 5:44. Put a cork in it, Mr. Aristocrat.
Mr. Tiring...you're a worthless cunt.
Die.
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