For those of you posting about your 2022 SAs on LinkedIn… Forum

[Anonymous User]

Thank goodness for people like you, anon so brave

I'm sorry fedsoc didn't turn into a clerkship for you, must've been hard

[Buglaw]

1. the tech-y influencer posts don't suck b/c they're critical of biglaw. they suck b/c, like most LinkedIn posts, they're saccharine and self-congratulatory and insinuate that the author is doing w/e he or she is doing for altruistic, rather than commercial reasons (notwithstanding the fact that the person is like, an associate general counsel for Trillion Dollar Ad Behemoth or The Latest Blockchain Scam)

2. if you are, in your heart of hearts, actually offended by Anon's use of the word peon (you would be the first, to my knowledge), I'm sorry, on behalf of Anon. otherwise, let's leave the faux-outrage over innocuous, commonplace word choices for twitter

Assuming your first point is what the other anon meant, that's fine. I've just seen a recent trend of dismissing people's shit experiences in biglaw as being sour grapes, particularly in light of the extremely hot lateral market and concern from firms' leadership about hemorrhaging more associates and taking a cuddlier view of associates as a result. My point is only that using today's immediate context as a barometer of how biglaw *is* is naive given history. Incidentally, this is also part of why I think the "I am thrilled to announce I am joining [insert BL firm]" posts are so awful--not only are they self-aggrandizing and insensitive, they're also dense to the extent sincere (and not firm-imposed).

As for your second point, I'm not outraged or w/e--just pointing out the fraught racial history of the term "peon" and suggesting maybe a different term for "stupid" is better, unless anon was using it in its historical sense, which may be slightly less problematic...idk, not the expert here. Chill.

Thank goodness for people like you, anon so brave

If he doesn't police the speech on this forum, who will?????