Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here- the one case I saw, there wasn't resentment just a lot of weirdness and yes it caused gossip.
Anyone have fairytale stories? Anyone dream about it but without the resentment !!?

Why, are your relatives in the process of arranging a board chairmanship for you and you are wondering whether everyone in the organization be ecstatic about?

No, but I would love that.
Incidentally, do you have pull at your organization to get me a board chairmanship?

When I was 16 (a girl), I got hired as a janitor to work alongside convicted men preparing a decade-closed community college for reopening. My drug addicted, mentally ill, ex-con father maintained a touch and go relationship with the man who ran the work program. I loved it. The work was tough and varied and I really appreciated the fulltime, minimum wage paycheck. I out earned my parents that summer. I took my family out to dinner, paid for my younger siblings to have extra cirriculars, and saved what felt like a lot.

When I worked in biglaw, we hired a very medicore guy who normally wouldn't have passed our grade benchmarks, etc. for his school. We explicitly did it because his father was a client and for business reasons. The associate spent nearly 8 years doing crap work and billing crap before moving onto his next "venture."

In the interim, we let go of what felt like hundreds of bright, hardworking associates. Some under really terrible circumstances (trumped up reviews, etc.). It kind of killed me so when the economy turned, I left private practice handed in my partnership chips, took the equity owed to me, and worked elsewhere.

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