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[crumpetsandtea]

Accidentally revealing mental issues (anxiety, serious depression, etc) while drunk/tipsy at a firm event.

Regularly showing up 15-20 minutes late to work

[Anonymous User]

Falling asleep nearly every day. Serious.

Well, probably 3 days a week. Dozing off during meetings kinda stuff, not like sleeping under my desk

[Anonymous User]

Falling asleep nearly every day. Serious.

Well, probably 3 days a week. Dozing off during meetings kinda stuff, not like sleeping under my desk

Not trolling, a summer got no offered for doing this with partners in my office last summer.

[Anonymous User]

being significantly worse at the job than the other summers

[thesealocust]

being significantly worse at the job than the other summers

OFFER

There are no skills or talents required of a summer, and you aren't given anything necessary or real.

[bjsesq]

I just want to tell everyone Boo literally drolled on himself during OCI while wearing a suit. A big glob of spit just came slowly down his mouth while talking to 5-6 people

Sitting in the middle of a crowded nail salon reading this and I just burst into giggles. Everyone thinks I'm crazy now, thanks DF

After it happened, I made sure to point it out to everyone. Boo thanked me for that.

We made a great team, breh.

[OneMoreLawHopeful]

I badly misread a group of associates that took me out for a drink, invited them back to my summer sublet and, welp, "should have remembered" that my obviously-super-expensive-4-foot-blown-glass-bong was sitting on my coffee table before inviting someone from the firm over (based on a true story).

[El Pollito]

I badly misread a group of associates that took me out for a drink, invited them back to my summer sublet and, welp, "should have remembered" that my obviously-super-expensive-4-foot-blown-glass-bong was sitting on my coffee table before inviting someone from the firm over (based on a true story).

OFFER with enthusiasm.

[Anonymous User]

Getting in legal trouble for assault and battery.

Accidentally revealing mental issues (anxiety, serious depression, etc) while drunk/tipsy at a firm event.

Regularly showing up 15-20 minutes late to work

are you/ you two serious?

[Anonymous User]

Not speaking to support staff because I forgot all of their names and it's too late to ask.

[crumpetsandtea]

Getting in legal trouble for assault and battery.

Accidentally revealing mental issues (anxiety, serious depression, etc) while drunk/tipsy at a firm event.

Regularly showing up 15-20 minutes late to work

are you/ you two serious?

I thought this was a hypothetical thread. I'm not even working at a firm this summer, I'm with the federal government.

[thesealocust]

I badly misread a group of associates that took me out for a drink, invited them back to my summer sublet and, welp, "should have remembered" that my obviously-super-expensive-4-foot-blown-glass-bong was sitting on my coffee table before inviting someone from the firm over (based on a true story).

OFFER with enthusiasm.

+1

Not speaking to support staff because I forgot all of their names and it's too late to ask.

OFFER

[Anonymous User]

Getting in legal trouble for assault and battery.

Accidentally revealing mental issues (anxiety, serious depression, etc) while drunk/tipsy at a firm event.

Regularly showing up 15-20 minutes late to work

are you/ you two serious?

I thought this was a hypothetical thread. I'm not even working at a firm this summer, I'm with the federal government.

pretty sure it's no offer for both, unless someone knows an SA getting an offer despite mental issues/ assault/ battery

[thesealocust]

http://top-law-schools.com/forums/viewt ... 3&t=230485

[09042014]

http://top-law-schools.com/forums/viewt ... 3&t=230485

NO OFFER (Because we are too cheap to employee him)

[Anonymous User]

Myself and very important partner walk into bathroom together. He is a big jokester. Asks me how my summer is going. "Good! Everyone is very friendly... well except you, you're kind of a ball buster." I smile. He doesn't.

No offer?

[seespotrun]

Myself and very important partner walk into bathroom together. He is a big jokester. Asks me how my summer is going. "Good! Everyone is very friendly... well except you, you're kind of a ball buster." I smile. He doesn't.

No offer?

How often have you interacted with him this summer?

[Anonymous User]

At orientation, then once in the hallway where said balls were busted, then the bathroom

[seespotrun]

At orientation, then once in the hallway where said balls were busted, then the bathroom

I don't think you'll get axed for that offhand comment alone. But if your body of work has otherwise been meh/awkward, then you're getting close to no offer territory.

With that said, my baseless conclusion: OFFER

[thegrayman]

Myself and very important partner walk into bathroom together. He is a big jokester. Asks me how my summer is going. "Good! Everyone is very friendly... well except you, you're kind of a ball buster." I smile. He doesn't.

No offer?

You need to get a better grip of the joke hierarchy.

- Partner is allowed to make joke about you
- You are NOT allowed to make a joke about partner

[Danger Zone]

Myself and very important partner walk into bathroom together. He is a big jokester. Asks me how my summer is going. "Good! Everyone is very friendly... well except you, you're kind of a ball buster." I smile. He doesn't.

No offer?

You need to get a better grip of the joke hierarchy.

- Partner is allowed to make joke about you
- You are NOT allowed to make a joke about partner

Sounds like the partner is just the type of guy that can dish it out but can't take it.

[Anonymous User]

I really like both of our summers but one of them told me today she has asked for 2 extensions on a research memo. This will end in tears.

[Anonymous User]

Myself and very important partner walk into bathroom together. He is a big jokester. Asks me how my summer is going. "Good! Everyone is very friendly... well except you, you're kind of a ball buster." I smile. He doesn't.

No offer?

You need to get a better grip of the joke hierarchy.

- Partner is allowed to make joke about you
- You are NOT allowed to make a joke about partner

Sounds like the partner is just the type of guy that can dish it out but can't take it.

Had one of those at a firm where I SA'd. Would dig at me, and it would seem friendly enough, but he would just awkwardly chuckle if I'd dish anything back. This didn't seem like a big deal until we had a social event where he was sitting next to me. The more he drank, the more mean-spirited his barbs became. Instead of backing down, I responded in kind, culminating in a slam dunk joke about his height that left his wife and my wife in stitches. Him? Not so much.

FYI, no offer.

But still, fuck that guy.

[soj]

or you could just be a normal person and either let it go or make a joke not at the partner's expense. you can't take umbrage at every little thing.

[Anonymous User]

Make a joke about someone getting no-offered in the summer associate listserv email chain, forgetting that the recruiting staff has access to it; get called up and very gently berated about it by recruiting coordinator.