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I am surprised I didn't legit kill myself in biglaw
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Date: October 18th, 2017 9:19 PM Author: ocher becky I don't think I could do it again. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3768183&forum_id=2#34475257) |
Date: October 18th, 2017 9:21 PM Author: Titillating coral menage I'm extremely, extremely sympathetic to current associates. A biglaw partner came and gave us a presentation the other day. It wasn't what we wanted. Biglaw partner totally stared his associate down and threw him under the bus. I could only imagine the reaming out he gave him as soon as the presentation was over. I felt terrible. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3768183&forum_id=2#34475274) |
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Date: October 18th, 2017 9:25 PM Author: ocher becky He probably fired his ass, or will soon
one wrong move |
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Date: October 18th, 2017 9:30 PM Author: Titillating coral menage Probably not fired, just made his life unreasonably miserable for at least a few days. Biglaw partners are psychos. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3768183&forum_id=2#34475370) |
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Date: October 18th, 2017 9:31 PM Author: laughsome range jewess Lol. That happened with me. We were doing a presentation to an existing client and I fucked up the year: put 2090 instead of 2009 for the date of the act. Partner just noted the discrepancy and stared at me as he clicked to the next slide. Back at the office he gave me a 10 min talk about being detailed and said that stuff like this can cost us work. That's when I realized biglaw wasnt for me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3768183&forum_id=2#34475383) |
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Date: October 18th, 2017 11:30 PM Author: Titillating coral menage This was even worse than that. This was just about not reading the client's mind. I would have done the same thing if I were the associate. It was an afterthought thing, like "it would have been nice if you had projected this through X year instead of Y year." The partner immediately just threw his associate under the bus and said it was "on them" and that they would do another seminar for us, free of charge, of course. He was *very* visibly annoyed with the associate. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3768183&forum_id=2#34476397) |
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Date: October 18th, 2017 11:31 PM Author: ocher becky JFC, you should tell that partner to treat his associates nicer or else you'll fire his ass (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3768183&forum_id=2#34476402) |
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Date: October 18th, 2017 11:36 PM Author: Titillating coral menage Lol I don't have the authority to fire outside counsel and they would know that. But yeah. I even mentioned it to more senior folk and they just brushed me off. I'm like that junior is gonna get REAMED OUT and the other inhouse bros were like "nooo [partner bro] is a really good guy he would never!!!" People are so naive. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3768183&forum_id=2#34476425) |
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Date: October 18th, 2017 11:43 PM Author: ocher becky did they not do biglaw? how could they not know most partners are two-faced? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3768183&forum_id=2#34476455) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 12:28 AM Author: Titillating coral menage People forget about what it was like. Even I find myself forgetting about it until shit like that happens. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3768183&forum_id=2#34476777) |
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Date: October 18th, 2017 9:21 PM Author: sable curious regret Aren’t you a female? Were You ever single while in biglaw? How do these shrews do it? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3768183&forum_id=2#34475278) |
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Date: October 18th, 2017 9:23 PM Author: ocher becky lol no, I haven't been single since high school
The single shrews IME are all batshit crazy - one woman I knew who is still single at 34 in biglaw has bipolar disorder (no flame). |
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Date: October 18th, 2017 9:25 PM Author: lime spot Same here - I look back and am shocked that almost 7 yrs of my life were consumed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3768183&forum_id=2#34475320) |
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Date: October 18th, 2017 9:27 PM Author: ocher becky Did you gain weight or lose hair?
I know some senior associate women in biglaw who gained like 80 pounds plus started balding....don't they know a woman's value is mainly in her appearance? ljl
But yes, when you're in it, you are pretty much in a rabbit hole digging yourself deeper and deeper with no way out |
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Date: October 18th, 2017 11:27 PM Author: lime spot I kept skinny. Had some fluctuations (20lbs up and down here and there) but the lasting damage is psychological and the grey hair (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3768183&forum_id=2#34476376) |
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Date: October 18th, 2017 11:29 PM Author: ocher becky I think I gained around 20 pounds, then immediately lost like 15 pounds right after I left
Yes, the worst was the suicidal ideation - legit wanted to killself daily |
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Date: October 18th, 2017 11:33 PM Author: Diverse legend kitty cat Lasted 4 years. Wanted to killself after month 6 really (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3768183&forum_id=2#34476413) |
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Date: October 18th, 2017 11:35 PM Author: ocher becky Jump in front of a car? train? jump off a building?
for some reason those 3 stuck in my mind, but it would be the worst if you didn't die quickly |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 12:23 AM Author: sexy dashing mood chapel train, make it look like an accident so my family could get my surprisingly good AD&D insurance (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3768183&forum_id=2#34476743) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 5:22 PM Author: ocher becky My concern is an amazing percentage of people hit by trains survive, but with terrible injuries (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3768183&forum_id=2#34481598) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 12:26 AM Author: Domesticated irate library I’ve been in biglaw long enough that other associates have asked me why I haven’t killed myself yet (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3768183&forum_id=2#34476758) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 2:16 AM Author: Bronze pisswyrm What do you tell them (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3768183&forum_id=2#34477230) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 12:27 AM Author: Glassy hall nowag i tried but the buses would always slow down in time (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3768183&forum_id=2#34476776) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 11:49 AM Author: ocher becky (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3768183&forum_id=2#34478919) |
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Date: October 19th, 2017 1:16 PM Author: cerebral fluffy hominid liquid oxygen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3768183&forum_id=2#34479520) |