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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
I worked at two firms where the unofficial (as in: written nowhere, but you got gently counselled for breaking it) policy was that associates could not close their office doors unless they were on a call and using a speakerphone. The partners assumed (correctly) that when our doors were closed we were either (a.) discussing compensation; (b.) complaining about staff fuckups we didn't want the partners to learn about; or (c.) doing unkind impressions of the partners or their spouses and children.
There seemed to be no recognition that partners got to discuss us behind closed doors, and that whether or not you are using a speaker phone the caller can hear them FUCKING TALKING LOUDLY IN THE HALLWAY OUTSIDE MY OFFICE.
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cf. White & Case (I think, don't know from personal experience), where it was REQUIRED that your door be closed.
No, wait. I think they used to (or maybe still do -- who knows?) require men to wear their suit jackets if they were to wander outside their offices.
