"The problem is that everyone sooner or later gets tired of the temp life, which entails no benefits or stability and a constant struggle to maintain and a good attitude in an often disorganized, chaotic working environment. Even reliable temps sometimes crack after they've taken too much abuse. As someone else coined the term, 'going codal'.
People that get in arguments with recruiters, cause disturbances at the workplace or walk off the job get blacklisted.
Sometimes it's advantageous to be on an agency's shitlist. As long as you know the cause and effect, it's okay. It's better to walk off the job while working in the Lexolution Chicken Coop or De Novo Sweatshop than endure the soul crushing malaise that infects these projects and the sub-human treatment by the firms and agencies."
As we have observed in the past, "going codal" is not as rare as you would think. In the past, we have chronicled the lady that had to be carried out of a project kicking and screaming. Also, who can forget the infamous female coder that flipped out and smeared her feces all over a bathroom wall? As the law school crooks continue to jack up tuitions and the sweatshop overseers continue to cram people into their chicken coops, I expect such "going codal" episodes to become all the more common. Just this morning, someone pointed out to me that an anonymous poster under the name of "Guy In Gorilla Suit" had hauled himself up in his apartment and people were trying to coax him out:
"I have been drinking heavily since last Wednesday, and refusing to talk to people, including friends and family. I have not shaved for 5 days. My apartment looks like a nuclear war zone. I might lose my job - I don't know what is going to happen, since I am not picking up any phone calls.
On top of it all, some fucker slashed both of my tires on the passenger side. I cannot put a spare on, because he slashed two tires. I can't get to work, and I am refusing to call in. I am thinking about killingself. My loan statement came in, and I owe $652 a month for 30 years. I just won't pay it. Fuck them.
I haven't had much to eat since I started my bender 5 days ago. I am seriously scaring my neighbors. They are offering to help me, but I told them all to go fuck themselves."
http://jdunderground.com/thread.php?threadId=18497
19 comments:
hey tom!
did anita wear a gorilla suit to work?
On a different note, the LPO industry is coming out of hiding for a full fledged outing in NYC this September.
http://legallyours.blogspot.com/2008/06/lpo-summit-sep-2008.html
Maybe we can all go and have a chat with the companies exporting our work/jobs to India.
http://www.americanconference.com/LPO.htm
5 day benders like that are a clear sign of crazy.
I take down several shots before heading into work at Lexolution.
Does anyone read Wicked Words? http://wickedwords.blogspot.com/
The posts about Sweatshop LLP's are disappearing. The whole blog is imploding...
She wrote about several small law firms in the Boston area whose pay was absolutely abysmal and treated their employees like crap. I guess they are coming after her.
Thou who speaks out against the machine shall be crushed!
wow, she deleted all the recent stuff. I guess it was difficult to find work after railing against the legal profession. If you still work in this profession, it's hard to be a gadfly and still even get a temp job. Forget about a firm job, there are just too many of us scrounging around for work. The firms can be incredibly picky and they are.
I was wondering when she would figure out that bitching about being unemployed and mocking law firms would lead her to permanent unemployment in her chosen field. I guess she has now.
Guy in Gorilla Suit goes crazy, Wicked Words self destructs...
Are we reaching a breaking point here?
9:42
I wouldn't worry about it. The blogging was a little too cogent and self-aware. He'll be just fine. Dramatical, but fine.
I'm thinking about locking my door, drinking, blogging, and carrying out all sort of schenannigan until Tom comments on the Anita article.
Honestly, I don't think the blogging was hurting my job prospects; it's just the market itself. I wasn't applying to the types of gutter jobs that I was posting on my site after a bad experience I had at one place. And the temp firms I have worked with in Boston have been completely professional and courteous; my experiences with them have been absolutely positive. There's less temp work to be had in Boston and it's less of a circus than what is portrayed on this blog (mostly NYC).
I tried my best to highlight these publicly posted lowball offers while I could. But I'll be honest: when a partner in a law firms spends five hours of his day trolling the blog for ammunition to use against me, it is worrisome. I usually won't succumb to such threats but it did freak me out. That, and I was contemplating moving on anyways.
well, good luck to you, it's a tough profession. Leaving the blog behind is probably a reality if you want to practice law. There are always unbearable creeps in our profession ready to bury you.
to answer your question 6:47, anita only puts on the suit for tom when then are gettin it on.
of course, when she doesn't shave she doesn't really need the suit. she has a bush out to tomorrow!
You are all a bunch of unprofessional whiners. Go out and get a full time job like the rest of america and stop acting so entitled. Nobody's going to cry because you can't find a job doing monkey work in the temp world for $30 plus an hour. Your all the reason why america is going to collapse - waaaaa no one will pay me $150 a year to code -waaa no one will hire me because I went to flunky 5th tier school and didn't study....
Your parents should be ashamed they raised you...you all went to college and had the opportunity look at the numbers. Your not children no grow and act like adults and make something more of yourselves..
A woman wiped shit on the walls--that is so awesome. I remember working as a teacher in a high school, and someone did the same. It smelled awful. People wondered who did it, and I said, "I bet it was a student," as a joke. If that crazy bitch did it, maybe a teacher did that at the school. That would be awesome.
Who is anita? I bet it was a middle-aged boss who was in touch with reality who was mean to a bunch of sniveling babies who went to law school right after college--25-year old adolescents.
Was she a meanie?
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Know that the DeNovo Ho is laughing her ass off LOSER!
I love how people on this site hear about some temp doing something wacked out and decide it's the pressure of unfair loans, unfair agencies, unfair firms, unfair work conditions. Maybe the person is a friggin nutjob? I've met plenty in the jobs I've done. These jobs are not hard or stressful at all. Some people are just not normal.
Amen 7:42.
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