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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
To one partner: "This firm's billing requirements are fucking asinine." That one wasn't appreciated.
On the day that an associate was let go (when tensions were extremely high):
Partner: "Can you do that for me by next Friday?"
Coltrane: "Yes. Assuming I haven't been fired."
Partner: "What does that mean?"
Coltrane: "I don't know what that means."
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you need to start acting like a partner. today, right now, go back stab another associate- someone who sees you as a friend would be best.
start only talking to Partners- get shitty to the staff, when you're at the urinal and there are only associates there DO NOT FLUSH, if a partner is there, flush of course.
Get more and more negative, next time they fire someone, offer to pick up his work "because you've been fixing it for the last few years anyway....I can't believe you didn't boot his ass a year ago, he's a useless fuck..." Never one good word about any other associate. Not one.
Within a year the partnership will realize you are someone they need to make the "partner in charge of telling people they're fired"- you'll be recognized for your thick skin-
side benefit? once you're the partner who fires people even senior partners will avoid you- you never know when your time has come, and the only thing they know for sure is the word will come from Coltrane.
Pretty soon it'll be "come in early, stay late and take an 8 hour lunch." good luck!
