imaginary friends to fill the void that is your gaping gash.

[Alex_de_Large]

What we might see on Sunday...

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I'll say. No one bought me a vibrator. Hostile indeed.

Hey, you turned down my offer of body jewelry a few weeks ago. Like I always tell my kids, you have to appreciate your gifts or people won't want to give you anything.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I'll say. No one bought me a vibrator. Hostile indeed.

No one bought you a vibrator yet. (My money is on wonk, when he catches up in a couple of weeks.)

In other news, I hate lawyers. That is all.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Alex_de_Large
What we might see on Sunday...

Glad to see an Eagles supporter likening their team to al Qaeda. Tasteful.

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Glad to see an Eagles supporter likening their team to al Qaeda. Tasteful.

What are you talking about? That's a reference to the game "Mortal Kombat" where one of the means of killing your oponent was to yank out his spine.

Geeze, Burger, think of the children.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I worked at a firm in Silicon Valley that decided to stop buying milk for the kitchens. This caused near-revolt among the associates.

Take away our bonuses, our step increases, our extravagant retreats to Monterey and Napa, but don't fuck with our liquid dairy supply!

The firm relented. Order was restored.

Why do firms try to pull this nickle & dime bullshit? It just pisses people off way out of proportion to the costs involved. Particularly with coffee, the lifeblood of the billable hour, it just clearly can't work. In fact, at my firm they recently upgraded the coffee service (dunno if it was more expensive, but it was definitely better), and the associates were so happy that the firm got away with kinda crappy bonuses, simply because most associates deemed that they had gotten a significant raise because they no longer needed to blow $5/day on Starbucks.

Another gripe - my firm has lousy cheap toilet paper. I fucking hate cheap toilet paper. They should take better care of my ass, particularly since they seem to think they own it.

On to the poll question: I assume by "kitchen" we mean "self-serve coffee/break room" not "cafeteria kitchen staffed by supposed professionals" where you can buy subsidized sandwiches so you don't need to stop billing long enough to scavange food. So, our coffee rooms have coffee (about 6 kinds), tea, sugar, sweet & Low, whole milk, skim milk and half and half. There is a little faucet that dispenses filtered cold water and an icemaker. There are also candy-bar & soda vending machines, but the selection is unsatisfactory.

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
On to the poll question: I assume by "kitchen" we mean "self-serve coffee/break room" not "cafeteria kitchen staffed by supposed professionals" where you can buy subsidized sandwiches so you don't need to stop billing long enough to scavange food. So, our coffee rooms have coffee (about 6 kinds), tea, sugar, sweet & Low, whole milk, skim milk and half and half. There is a little faucet that dispenses filtered cold water and an icemaker. There are also candy-bar & soda vending machines, but the selection is unsatisfactory.

Ditto, save for the vending machine, though there are some in the building.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by paigowprincess
I think it would be too dry and dusty. Perhaps if you used the non-lite popcorn and have the grease capture the tomato granules?

which reminds me, I have been hearing the word "granular" in a business context lately.

Me too.

http://lawtalkers.com/forums/showthr...ing#post145074

[barely_legal]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Why do firms try to pull this nickle & dime bullshit? It just pisses people off way out of proportion to the costs involved. Particularly with coffee, the lifeblood of the billable hour, it just clearly can't work. In fact, at my firm they recently upgraded the coffee service (dunno if it was more expensive, but it was definitely better), and the associates were so happy that the firm got away with kinda crappy bonuses, simply because most associates deemed that they had gotten a significant raise because they no longer needed to blow $5/day on Starbucks.

Another gripe - my firm has lousy cheap toilet paper. I fucking hate cheap toilet paper. They should take better care of my ass, particularly since they seem to think they own it.

On to the poll question: I assume by "kitchen" we mean "self-serve coffee/break room" not "cafeteria kitchen staffed by supposed professionals" where you can buy subsidized sandwiches so you don't need to stop billing long enough to scavange food. So, our coffee rooms have coffee (about 6 kinds), tea, sugar, sweet & Low, whole milk, skim milk and half and half. There is a little faucet that dispenses filtered cold water and an icemaker. There are also candy-bar & soda vending machines, but the selection is unsatisfactory.

Do most firms actually provide milk? Different varieties of milk? Christ, my firm is cheap. They even cheaped out on the cup lids -- they used be the Starbucks-type lid with the little cut-out for drinking and now they are the fold-back-a-tab type that always results in sharp plastic corners jabbing at my mouth. Fucking cheapskates.

[Gattigap]

Milk? Ha! My firm presumably adheres to the theory that real milk softens the iron stomachs required for real lawyering.

We have three types of coffee provided by a no-name coffeehouse with an unrecognizable logo, Mini-Moos(tm), CoffeeMate Swill(tm), sugar, tea, and hot and cold water dispensers. And it's either a paper cup, or bring your own freakin' mug.

Drink it, smile, and get back to your office and bill.

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by barely_legal
Do most firms actually provide milk? Different varieties of milk? Christ, my firm is cheap. They even cheaped out on the cup lids -- they used be the Starbucks-type lid with the little cut-out for drinking and now they are the fold-back-a-tab type that always results in sharp plastic corners jabbing at my mouth. Fucking cheapskates.

Solution: bring a real mug from home so you don't need cheap-ass cups.

[lookingformarket]

Originally posted by barely_legal
Do most firms actually provide milk? Different varieties of milk? Christ, my firm is cheap. They even cheaped out on the cup lids -- they used be the Starbucks-type lid with the little cut-out for drinking and now they are the fold-back-a-tab type that always results in sharp plastic corners jabbing at my mouth. Fucking cheapskates.

I use a coffee mug that I brought from home and wash in the dishwasher in my break room. I don't know why someone would use styrofoam with a nasty lid. A cup of coffee does not last long enough in my vicinity to go cold.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by barely_legal
Do most firms actually provide milk? Different varieties of milk?

My impression is "yes." Re: different varieties, it's not more expensive to provide small cartons of different types than it is a larger carton of only one type - people aren't exactly going to use 3x as much milk because they can choose from 3 types.

Christ, my firm is cheap. They even cheaped out on the cup lids -- they used be the Starbucks-type lid with the little cut-out for drinking and now they are the fold-back-a-tab type that always results in sharp plastic corners jabbing at my mouth. Fucking cheapskates.

We have the cheapie cup lids, too. But the only person I know who uses the disposable coffee cups in the kitchen is the Mr. when he visits, and he never gets a lid, just one of those plastic stirer things that he leaves on my desk and I find stuck to the underside of some document a week later. Everyone who works here pretty much uses mugs, and coffee service for clients involves china from the cafeteria.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Me too.

http://lawtalkers.com/forums/showthr...ing#post145074

That's nuthin'.

Wait'll you start hearing "bandwidth" used to describe a lawyer's available time. It's one more step to lawyer-as-commodity.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by Gattigap
Wait'll you start hearing "bandwidth" used to describe a lawyer's available time. It's one more step to lawyer-as-commodity.

Speaking of "jargon we hate," I was very sorry to see John Kerry's "comeback" meet the press interview last weekend because he used the term "modalities," meaning that if I ever see him in person I will now have to bitchslap him. He used it no more eloquently than the 419 scammers who have adopted it with such enthusiasm.