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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Boy it sure sounds tough to be a lawyer.
But my point was these deal guys do shit they have to know is pointlessly deadlined. I presume there was a guy waiting for your FedEx and there were briefs due on Tuesday. So you story was different. My guy worked right up to Thanksgiving to make papers that he had to know no one would look at for days.
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I kind of doubt that s/he would have been fired for sending them out on Friday. Sounds to me like either (a) client claimed s/he wanted it to review early (whether or not s/he actually did so) or (b) associate (or paralegal, I forget the hypo) decided s/he would rather work late on Wednesday in order to ignore the deal for the rest of the long weekend and just gave you a sob story. I'd happily (maybe not happily) work until 10 on Wednesday before Thanksgiving in order to have Thursday through Sunday off. That's way better in my book than working til 6, then having to do work on Friday because something is due out before the end of the break.
I appreciate the effort of the annual tales of deals yore and I'm sure you posted this for the long-term good of the Board (hi, Newbers! Welcome!), but if that is the best you've got, you should turn the fake-deal-deadline-from-hell talespinning duties over to Thurgreed or some other TCOTUer.
