tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19584611.post2979309922046351717..comments2024-03-25T04:26:39.471-04:00Comments on Temporary Attorney: The Sweatshop Edition: The Roving Eyehelpme123http://www.blogger.com/profile/09049497942793554030noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19584611.post-36342613229284288112007-12-05T16:20:00.000-05:002007-12-05T16:20:00.000-05:00why is it an insult to tell someone they pee like ...why is it an insult to tell someone they pee like a woman?<BR/><BR/><BR/>OHHHH, being a woman is inferior! i get it...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19584611.post-41409148080685040932007-08-02T18:33:00.000-04:002007-08-02T18:33:00.000-04:00sometimes things need to be handled in a "more tra...sometimes things need to be handled in a "more traditional way". the spoken word in ineffective to dimbulbs like you.<BR/><BR/>i bet you pee sitting down.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19584611.post-73808362011176950212007-08-02T14:05:00.000-04:002007-08-02T14:05:00.000-04:00That kind of attitude, advocating violence, gives ...That kind of attitude, advocating violence, gives us brothers a bad name and lets the white man keep us down. <BR/><BR/>You deserve what you get. I tell my 8 year old nephew that he is responsible for the decisions he makes.<BR/><BR/>You chose law school when you were old enough to be responsible for the outcome of the decisions that you made, good or bad . You knew your poor attitude would preclude you from ever obtaining a job (law) with your betters.<BR/><BR/>Now you come here because you are on the fringe. With your swearing and advocacy of violence, why are we not surprised?<BR/><BR/>You deserve to enjoy the fruits of your decisions, with that attitude.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19584611.post-90660422191967530842007-08-02T13:50:00.000-04:002007-08-02T13:50:00.000-04:00how about i take a bat to your fkin skull?how about i take a bat to your fkin skull?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19584611.post-79907431960216629982007-07-29T13:33:00.000-04:002007-07-29T13:33:00.000-04:00Or let such crazies go back to McDonalds, keep the...Or let such crazies go back to McDonalds, keep them away from us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19584611.post-72895444417695459962007-07-27T11:58:00.000-04:002007-07-27T11:58:00.000-04:00Most of these people went to bad law schools and t...Most of these people went to bad law schools and took out huge loans. They are hardly rocket scientists. They should do whatever job that makes them happy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19584611.post-83334859737352907302007-07-26T22:17:00.000-04:002007-07-26T22:17:00.000-04:00Agreed Anon/regards is a troll. I am a recovering...Agreed Anon/regards is a troll. I am a recovering attorney who has switched to an executive business development role for an international corporation. I have options that should realistically allow me to retire without temping in 10 years or so. I also temped and it sucked. I also did toilet law - and it was better, better $, but no parade. I feel for you all, but do examine your options and try to think out of the box. You are on the whole, smart people with alot to offer. Pay your bills, yes, but keep your heads up and vow not to be doing doc review in your 50's.<BR/><BR/>Love and peaceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19584611.post-67507091113206572412007-07-23T20:22:00.000-04:002007-07-23T20:22:00.000-04:00Thanks Man/Babe!Best!Thanks Man/Babe!<BR/><BR/>Best!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19584611.post-20137612932528787392007-07-23T19:29:00.000-04:002007-07-23T19:29:00.000-04:00"Though don't switch over to mindless UNPLEASANT w..."Though don't switch over to mindless UNPLEASANT work, which also causes burn out. What kind of sense would it make to quit an 80-hour a week job making $160k annually for a 60-hour a week job making $40@hr-tops-with no health insurance, sick pay, vacation, pension, etc.?"<BR/><BR/>It's not that crazy. If working doc review for 4 months a year would let me retire five years earlier I'd certainly consider it. Even if those 4 months are awful, you'd have 2/3rds of the year off. Outside of doc review, working 3-4 months a year isn't really an option.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19584611.post-14069276028062032722007-07-23T17:10:00.000-04:002007-07-23T17:10:00.000-04:00"People get burnt out and switch over to mindless ..."People get burnt out and switch over to mindless work because they don't want to do anything else."<BR/><BR/>Though don't switch over to mindless UNPLEASANT work, which also causes burn out. What kind of sense would it make to quit an 80-hour a week job making $160k annually for a 60-hour a week job making $40@hr-tops-with no health insurance, sick pay, vacation, pension, etc.? That lump on top of your shoulders isn't just a hat stand.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19584611.post-8805195442894785612007-07-23T16:43:00.000-04:002007-07-23T16:43:00.000-04:005:51PM:If you are not interested in personal attac...5:51PM:If you are not interested in personal attacks, why did you click on this article?<BR/>Come on does anybody have more anecdotes about The Roving Eye? Back and forth banter with that hard-on Best Regards is boring.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19584611.post-31583225631200042192007-07-22T17:51:00.000-04:002007-07-22T17:51:00.000-04:00then stop the personal attacksthen stop the personal attacksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19584611.post-27840351867056579422007-07-22T16:03:00.000-04:002007-07-22T16:03:00.000-04:00Best Regards, get the hell off this board. You sa...Best Regards, get the hell off this board. You said you were done many e-mails ago, but you keep coming back with more garbage. I do not believe anything you say; you just want attention. Temps: Ignore this fool and do not respond to his nonsense.<BR/>Let's get back to M, The Roving Eye.<BR/>Seasoned TempAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19584611.post-5155139475952405332007-07-22T14:44:00.000-04:002007-07-22T14:44:00.000-04:00Haha.Take a bow, "Best Regards".Best troll I've se...Haha.<BR/><BR/>Take a bow, "Best Regards".<BR/><BR/>Best troll I've seen in a long while.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19584611.post-74725613222230858382007-07-22T14:34:00.000-04:002007-07-22T14:34:00.000-04:00Whining Anonymous at 1:50pm:Unless they prefer cit...Whining Anonymous at 1:50pm:<BR/><BR/>Unless they prefer city life, instead of the DC suburbs, why would someone not want to be set for life. <BR/><BR/>YOU understand: Sure, no one wants to be old. I don't need Viagra yet but I certainly can't shoot hoops like I used to. However, both houses are paid for, no debt, and doc review is just "found money," with free lunch, two thousand dollars a week on the project I start tomorrow at $40 straight time. All on top of a lucrative pension from my General Counsel career. <BR/><BR/>But what moron is going to retire and sit home and watch television! Anybody my age might want to be in the same position, contrary to your assertion. There are already over a million millionaires in this country, but from your mouthing off, I don't think we belong to the same country club. Show respect to people who have accomplished something in life. No one likes a whiner. I get to enjoy Tom's helpful tips just as anyone else. Stop your ageist discriminitory attacks. You're just jealous and trying to feel self-important: You're no more special than any other mother's son.<BR/><BR/>Best Regards!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19584611.post-45925248722963952142007-07-22T13:50:00.000-04:002007-07-22T13:50:00.000-04:00"Best Regards", are a slow learner or something? C..."Best Regards", are a slow learner or something? Can you step out of your bubble and put yourself in other people's shoes for a while?<BR/><BR/>You talk about the fact how you are filled with pride seeing attorneys of color... DOING DOCUMENT REVIEW??? Do you understand the fact that document review is a dead end job? We all get it, you are retired and enjoying your golden years. You don't care that this is a dead end job. You achieved what you wanted to achieve and now all you are concerned about is your grandchildren, your bingo games, and your early bird specials. Most of the people here are in their 20s or late 30s. We do not want to try out recreational writing, or "toy around" with our jobs like you. We want a career. Do you have the ability to understand that? Or do you suffer from Asperger syndrome? <BR/><BR/>I was thinking you might be a troll, but I can't imagine someone putting so much effort into trolling. There is no nicer way of saying this: you are a pig happy to roll around in shit, and you can't for the life of you understand why somebody wouldn't want to be in the same position as you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19584611.post-50997756270153641382007-07-22T12:46:00.000-04:002007-07-22T12:46:00.000-04:00John,It's exactly as you described. Law school in ...John,<BR/><BR/>It's exactly as you described. Law school in the early 1980's in Baltimore was all white males at University of Maryland. We were starting to get more women, and had a few minorities, a dozen out of hundreds for each of the three class years, and they were usually night students. I visited a big law firm in the 1990s here in the DC area and they were extremely proud how progressive they were: One hundred or more partners, and five of them were women. They were innovators, they felt. No minority partners.<BR/><BR/>That's one of the cool things about document review. I've heard of the late Johnny Cochran, and seen on TV Clarence Thomas. But it wasn't until after retirement in this decade, where I get to play with writing, playing with my grandchildren, and now toying with a month here and there at document review, that I met attorneys who were people of color. In the largely white county in the DC suburbs where I live, there is prejudice so as firms go races aggregate together. Most of my female classmates in our law school class at our twenty year reunion years ago had never done legal work, or had started after their children were grown.<BR/><BR/>John, I don't want to hear about the bitter people here envious of lawyers that are/were hightly paid. www.bls.gov gives some good statistics on lawyers across the country. If it is true that white male lawyers are only making $40k/year as someone suggested, do you have any books or credible sources where I can read on the state of law/lawyers today? I get the ABA Journal, but we are all highly paid there, as well the the Maryland Bar Journal. Incestuous whining websites like this are interesting, but filled with emotional outbursts, so they aren't good primary sources for ascertaining the veracity of statements that people who made law review and were in the top ten percent of their class and went into Biglaw are only making $40K per year. My wife makes more than that on eBay, net.<BR/><BR/>Truly,<BR/><BR/>Best Regards.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19584611.post-26762160660273331312007-07-22T12:18:00.000-04:002007-07-22T12:18:00.000-04:00"Almost every non-lawyer I meet think that law car..."Almost every non-lawyer I meet think that law career is a sure way to a respectable job and riches."<BR/><BR/>People will always invariably believe this because the media conveys this message all the time. I anologize it to the way people think all novelists and other writers are super rich and famous. They think that if they write a novel, they will be super rich too. Look at all the wannabe writers on www.publishamerica.com. These folks believe that they are on their way to glamor and glory because the media feeds the line that writers are rich, interesting, and glamorous people. This is simply not true. Most novelists are midlisters. They don't may much money, remain fairly obscure, and have day jobs. This is phenomenon is also true of wannabe singers, reporters, etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19584611.post-21114973714944552452007-07-22T12:14:00.000-04:002007-07-22T12:14:00.000-04:00"Best Regards" obviously became a lawyer in the "g..."Best Regards" obviously became a lawyer in the "grand" era of law when it was more tightly restricted to a limited cadre of priviledged white men who now still think that the so-called "profession" of the "law" is a grand one indeed. <BR/><BR/>Clearly, like, many other older white male attorneys, he knows little or nothing of what it is to be a recently admitted attorney today. Everything is "la-di-da" in lawland for these types. <BR/><BR/>One guy posted the following:<BR/>Anonymous said... <BR/>How many years do you think it will take before the general public recognizes the fact that law profession is bullshit? Almost every non-lawyer I meet think that law career is a sure way to a respectable job and riches. <BR/><BR/><BR/>Anonymous....that perception by the non attorney is starting to change. More and more, regular folks have a relative or neighbor who starts to leak out the truth with stories of $40 attorney salaries. Sites like this one and JD Underground also are helping get the word out. There are now articles in somewhat mainstream media outlets. I detect an undercurrent that is starting to swell. The truth is starting to get out that the law is a B.S. profession.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19584611.post-20871257308640133052007-07-20T17:18:00.000-04:002007-07-20T17:18:00.000-04:00They will only know if we tell them. I tell everyo...They will only know if we tell them. I tell everyone I can.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19584611.post-49677811480263936652007-07-20T15:42:00.000-04:002007-07-20T15:42:00.000-04:00How many years do you think it will take before th...How many years do you think it will take before the general public recognizes the fact that law profession is bullshit? Almost every non-lawyer I meet think that law career is a sure way to a respectable job and riches.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19584611.post-90902023139132758602007-07-20T01:47:00.000-04:002007-07-20T01:47:00.000-04:00You're all so bitter.You're all so bitter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19584611.post-9551952920339639222007-07-19T23:04:00.000-04:002007-07-19T23:04:00.000-04:00"does anyone honestly believe that a young retired..."does anyone honestly believe that a young retired attorney would leave substantive work to do doc review?"<BR/><BR/>Yeah. He may be a jerk but its plausible. People get burnt out and switch over to mindless work because they don't want to do anything else.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19584611.post-63537743207166841362007-07-19T21:07:00.000-04:002007-07-19T21:07:00.000-04:00truetrueAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19584611.post-16084946576030061782007-07-19T10:24:00.000-04:002007-07-19T10:24:00.000-04:00Uhh . . . does anyone honestly believe that a youn...Uhh . . . does anyone honestly believe that a young retired attorney would leave substantive work to do doc review? Does that in any way make sense? I have to acknowledge it doesn't speak well for your reasoning skills if you can't detect such an obvious troll . . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com