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sebastian_dangerfield · 09-12-2006, 03:27 PM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
One of the following will happen first: (1) I will walk out; (2) my smart-ass mouth will get me in trouble...it's like I'm in the first stage of tourettes - I literally cannot control some of the shit that comes out of my mouth (to anyone). I was supposed to grow out of this. In 10th grade it was, "Mr. Coltrane, Sr., your son has a big problem with authority." Nothing has changed. Whatever I think comes out of my mouth. Immediately. I can't stop it.

Think of it this way, also, Coltrane. The system exists in its present incarnation only because people like you and I buy into it. If you stand up and say "Nope, I don't buy it," and move into something else, you're helping to destroy the myth that has created Service Partners since law firms began - the fallacy that You can't Do Something Else.

Most of us here play the system like a fiddle - half assing our way around our jobs based on some natural talent and an occasional flash of interest in the rare truly interesting project that comes our way. We get used to the money and figure "all jobs suck, this one pays well, and I have loans..." We ratchet our spending to meet our income in the flawed belief things will substitute for the time lost to our tedious toil. Bang - suddenly you have golden handcuffs. You're trapped, right?

No, you're not. You can restructure your life the same way a business does in an industry downturn. You do what you love, and you realize suddenyl, the days aren't work anymore, and you're not working just to buy things to forget the toil of your work week. You're out. Maybe you missed a few payments here or there, but you're out.

This sounds elementary, I know. But sometimes, you get so caught up in the Fear law firm life lays on us that you forget that escape isn't impossible, but just following a painful, but doable formula... With a payoff multiples of what those who stay and stifle their desires to do something different never enjoy.

I'll get beaten by a few people for this comment because a lot of people don't like to hear this sort of thing. That's understandable.

But you're not one of them. And you know it.

NotFromHere · 09-12-2006, 03:29 PM

There's something odd about this woman's face, but I can't put my finger on it. It's not the wig (that has to be a wig, right?) or the fake pearls, just...something.

her skin?

ltl/fb · 09-12-2006, 03:32 PM

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Originally posted by NotFromHere
There's something odd about this woman's face, but I can't put my finger on it. It's not the wig or the fake pearls, just...something.

She sort of looks like a lhasa apso? (lahsa?)

greatwhitenorthchick · 09-12-2006, 03:33 PM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Think of it this way, also, Coltrane. The system exists in its present incarnation only because people like you and I buy into it. If you stand up and say "Nope, I don't buy it," and move into something else, you're helping to destroy the myth that has created Service Partners since law firms began - the fallacy that You can't Do Something Else.

Most of us here play the system like a fiddle - half assing our way around our jobs based on some natural talent and an occasional flash of interest in the rare truly interesting project that comes our way. We get used to the money and figure "all jobs suck, this one pays well, and I have loans..." We ratchet our spending to meet our income in the flawed belief things will substitute for the time lost to our tedious toil. Bang - suddenly you have golden handcuffs. You're trapped, right?

No, you're not. You can restructure your life the same way a business does in an industry downturn. You do what you love, and you realize suddenyl, the days aren't work anymore, and you're not working just to buy things to forget the toil of your work week. You're out. Maybe you missed a few payments here or there, but you're out.

This sounds elementary, I know. But sometimes, you get so caught up in the Fear law firm life lays on us that you forget that escape isn't impossible, but just following a painful, but doable formula... With a payoff multiples of what those who stay and stifle their desires to do something different never enjoy.

I'll get beaten by a few people for this comment because a lot of people don't like to hear this sort of thing. That's understandable.

But you're not one of them. And you know it.

This was all very well said. It was like your prior rants, but this time it seemed more user-friendly.

robustpuppy · 09-12-2006, 03:33 PM

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Originally posted by NotFromHere
There's something odd about this woman's face, but I can't put my finger on it. It's not the wig or the fake pearls, just...something.

She was one of what, 7? female Fortune 500 CEOs, and she has stepped down, and all you can do is make a comment about her looks?

Not to get on a soapbox or anything, but break me off a piece of that KitKat Bar.

robustpuppy · 09-12-2006, 03:34 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
She sort of looks like a lhasa apso? (lahsa?)

Tsk tsk, fringey, tsk tsk tsk!

Flinty_McFlint · 09-12-2006, 03:34 PM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Think of it this way, also, Coltrane. The system exists in its present incarnation only because people like you and I buy into it. If you stand up and say "Nope, I don't buy it," and move into something else, you're helping to destroy the myth that has created Service Partners since law firms began - the fallacy that You can't Do Something Else.

Most of us here play the system like a fiddle - half assing our way around our jobs based on some natural talent and an occasional flash of interest in the rare truly interesting project that comes our way. We get used to the money and figure "all jobs suck, this one pays well, and I have loans..." We ratchet our spending to meet our income in the flawed belief things will substitute for the time lost to our tedious toil. Bang - suddenly you have golden handcuffs. You're trapped, right?

No, you're not. You can restructure your life the same way a business does in an industry downturn. You do what you love, and you realize suddenyl, the days aren't work anymore, and you're not working just to buy things to forget the toil of your work week. You're out. Maybe you missed a few payments here or there, but you're out.

This sounds elementary, I know. But sometimes, you get so caught up in the Fear law firm life lays on us that you forget that escape isn't impossible, but just following a painful, but doable formula... With a payoff multiples of what those who stay and stifle their desires to do something different never enjoy.

I'll get beaten by a few people for this comment because a lot of people don't like to hear this sort of thing. That's understandable.

But you're not one of them. And you know it.

So quit preaching and join us.

ltl/fb · 09-12-2006, 03:37 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Tsk tsk, fringey, tsk tsk tsk!

I have no clue who that is, but based on your prior comment, and having briefly looked a the front page of nytimes.com, I think it might be that HP chick.

I was just looking at the face.

gwink, is the user-friendliness from having paragraph breaks? Or is that not one of sebby's issue?

Hank Chinaski · 09-12-2006, 03:37 PM

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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
This was all very well said. It was like your prior rants, but this time it seemed more user-friendly.

Modest proposal? Earlier today this board showed what we can do if we all work together- particularly if we can determine the rules and walk close to them, and while one of us won, surely in some way did we not all win? did we not all prove what we can achieve when united by a common goal?

Instead of all this pain of weaning off the big $$$ maybe we can come up with a few insider trading schemes?

Oliver_Wendell_Ramone · 09-12-2006, 03:37 PM

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Originally posted by NotFromHere
There's something odd about this woman's face, but I can't put my finger on it. It's not the wig (that has to be a wig, right?) or the fake pearls, just...something.

her skin?

She looks a bit like Nigel Tufnel.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 09-12-2006, 03:38 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
She was one of what, 7? female Fortune 500 CEOs, and she has stepped down, and all you can do is make a comment about her looks?

Should we comment instead on her ploy to spy on board members? (493 male CEOs are kicking themselvs for not coming up with that plan . . .)

ltl/fb · 09-12-2006, 03:38 PM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I can't take this shit anymore. Fuckin' A I hate lawyering...

2. Now I just herd cats. Before, I had to do hateful lawyering AND herd cats, but the herding part wasn't really my job so I got penalized for doing it, but if I didn't things got really fucked. So now I'm in charge of cat-herding.

robustpuppy · 09-12-2006, 03:38 PM

I have been gently informed via IM that I have no idea what is going on. I apologize globally.

ltl/fb · 09-12-2006, 03:39 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
I have been gently informed via IM that I have no idea what is going on. I apologize globally.

What is going on? I think I don't know either.

robustpuppy · 09-12-2006, 03:41 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
What is going on? I think I don't know either.

I have to stop being such an eager-to-please lawyer type. I made one tiny mistake and fell on my fucking sword. She's only a Chairman, not also a CEO.

(I have to admit, I did think Carly Fiorina lost her looks rather dramatically in the past year.)