Inappropriate joke at work

[Anonymous]

You seriously need to think of this. Is your hill to die on because I think 10 out of 10 people would agree it is not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did Mommy forget to cut off the crust of her little man’s sandwich?

No way op is male

+1. There is no male on earth who would make a post like this.

OP is 29, single and a graduate of a liberal arts college, where she excelled at field hockey or volleyball.

She pretends not to be annoyed that her parents are starting to ask her if she’s “met someone yet.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did Mommy forget to cut off the crust of her little man’s sandwich?

No way op is male

+1. There is no male on earth who would make a post like this.

OP is 29, single and a graduate of a liberal arts college, where she excelled at field hockey or volleyball.

She pretends not to be annoyed that her parents are starting to ask her if she’s “met someone yet.”

Np, and my first thought is that op was a guy. There are plenty of wimpy, overly-sensitive guys out here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did Mommy forget to cut off the crust of her little man’s sandwich?

No way op is male

+1. There is no male on earth who would make a post like this.

OP is 29, single and a graduate of a liberal arts college, where she excelled at field hockey or volleyball.

She pretends not to be annoyed that her parents are starting to ask her if she’s “met someone yet.”

Np, and my first thought is that op was a guy. There are plenty of wimpy, overly-sensitive guys out here.

There are, but they don’t write posts like this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good Lord.

Young lawyers, and especially the women (sorry, it’s true), are absolutely the worst. You all are so embarrassingly, cringe-inducingly weak. Have a little pride. You’ve swallowed this identity politics, victim status as the highest virtue mentality for so long that you are utterly unable to function in reality. OP, you need to get a grip. You’re an adult. Act like it.

I’m a law firm partner. 8 in 10 of the female associates in our group cannot receive mundane corrective comments on a draft memo without (a) bursting into tears or (b) requesting a meeting with partners, HR, DEI reps, and whoever else they can dream up to discuss their feelings and the “tone” of the office.

You are an embarrassment.

I’m also a law firm party and in my experience it is 100% the young men who can’t take the criticism. Their self identity is very wound up in the notion that they are excellent writers and excellent advocates with fine analytical skills and if you think there is room for improvement you clearly are just wrong. The young women all have a sense of humor about their fallibility and just want to improve (or just want to get home for the evening).
Some of the young guys are fine with criticism, but of those who can’t take it, it is 100% male.
Women are steeped in criticism from birth — we really don’t have a hard time with it, and often use it preemptively (ask me about my hair/butt/shoes/exercise habits/diet/parenting skills).

[Anonymous]

Q. What do you call a million lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?
A. A good start.

[Anonymous]

I feel like OP was not a litigator in contentious cases prior to going in-house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I practiced criminal defense law in Chicago twenty-five years ago. I had my life and my children’s lives threatened by someone who meant what he said.

Go find a job where you can hide behind momma’s skirt.

Right? I doubt OP worked as a public defender. Threats happens regularly, and you can't withdraw representation bc of it.

[Anonymous]

The most fragile person I have ever worked with was a junior male attorney who couldn’t stand that I was in a more senior position than he was. Whiny baby.

But OP, honestly, you just need to volley a better quip. You don’t see the irony in joking about assault on the people that are trying to keep you OUT of jail? Lawyer jokes are dumb, but pretty run of the mill. If it escalates, document it.

[Anonymous]

Nothing to report.

Attorneys are not a protected red class