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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Better, set up client meetings in your office.
This could be like a new arrested development.
FWIW, I worked at a firm that was plenty generous with pretty much everything. Except office chairs. Every associate was issued the same, cheap Staples-type roller chair (MSRP $99). All of them were at least 5 years old, so the padding was compressed, the cloth dirty or tattered, and the whole thing was generally uncomfortable for the entirety of the many hours they expected us to slave so they could afford to be generous. I lead my departure letter with this fact. It would have made a great part of a book, except that someone else already wrote the same story.
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I worked there.
I was in a satellite office of what passes for biglaw here. We got the cast off furniture. The firm closed a few Florida offices (point comes later) right after I joined.
My first chair is cloth with rips in the arms. It was once a nice chair, but I was young enough to have illusions of plush law firm life so I ask the office manager for a different non-ripped chair. Nothing happens for a few months, with periodic pestering.
Then, as I'm coming back from lunch one day, I see her sneaking this silly high backed ORANGE vinyl chair into my office. My replacement chair! The best part was it had rips too.
Anyway, I decide that this is the sort of fuck you that can only be taken with a "you aren't bugging me" smile. I'd keep the chair after i made partner. Some day I'd still be sitting in the chair as I ran the entire firm.
A few years later the firm announced it had decided to sell the Florida furniture it had been paying to store for the past few years. At the sale were 4 dozen leather chairs THEY HAD BEEN PAYING TO STORE.
I think it was some sort of motivational tool.
