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Originally posted by robustpuppy
I love you today.
There is a jelly-spined type of partner who is worse than the type who will abide unreasonable have this on a holiday Monday requests. It's the type who fucking volunteers to have something at some reasonable time because he or she thinks that makes he or she look super-responsive and somehow compensates for his or her having failed to pay sufficient attention to the matter for the previous two weeks.
("Do you REALLY think sending an email out at 11:22 PM on Sunday night in response to a 5PM on Friday (or so you say) request is more responsive than sending it out at 9:00 on Monday morning? Okay, fine, that's great. Since it will take me 2 hours to wind down from dealing with you tonight over email the phone and I won't fall asleep till 2, I probably won't make it into the office till 11. And no, I haven't had a chance to get my firm-issued Blackberry yet. Isn't that a shame? )
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I had a great old partner at my last firm who used to describe people who wrote late nite memos and tried to act like they were always working as creating "action." People who actually moved the case forward he described as creating "motion." Thats the ttrouble with the billable hour model. Too much action, but not enough motion.
I asked a bank exec who did vicious cost cutting how he decided who to fire. He told me there's an old rule - "Whoever conspicuously walks by your door everyday after 6:00." I don't know where he got that, but I like it.
