TikTok Summers Return Forum

[Anonymous User]

Lesson for the baby law tiktokers: if you’re going to do this, at least be funny. This one from Priscilla made me crack up. Respect this way more than the Duke tiktoker who posted whining about a straw man version of online posts.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRoon92X/

it would be pretty weird to make a funny TikTok about somebody else being made fun of or doxxed on here versus making fun of a situation where you are the one being made fun of. Saw both posts and I’m glad to see Priscilla not taking any of this too seriously especially with all the racists stuff people were saying in her first thread. Both clearly had different intentions and while we are at it let’s just stop tone policing black women.

“Different intentions” — one just made shit up to support her take. She said people from the older generation were tearing down a fit check, instead of people (probably mostly in their late 20s) criticizing summers who film in the office and film other summers. The latter is clearly unprofessional, no one has a real problem with fit checks even if they roll their eyes at them. The above TikTok poster even posted her first day schedule and full names of staff.

Went and watched her tiktok again and the original poster here said the summer associate in question posted "a day in the life post showing the firm logo and first day schedule." another poster who knows the summer and saw the video said "The post in question was a getting ready for work video that ended with a pic of her "covington" screensaver but didn't include any commentary." The Duke tiktoker said "whole times its a get ready with me, whole time it's a fit check" which often happens after a get ready with me but I digress. While I don't personally agree with filming in the office I also think this thread is assuming quite a lot in order to criticize even though towards the end there they were just making fun of her for her profile in general and her dark academia posts.

We have no idea who the summers she supposedly filmed are and what her relationship to them is, whether they know she's filming or if she got their permission. Just because someone is not looking directly at the camera doesn't mean they don't know they are being filmed. Regardless, the main people to have an issue with that should be the other summer associates at her office. It just seems like grasping a bit. if it was a meeting she filmed I would understand criticizing it, much less if it was a social event. I summered during my 1L and my firm often encouraged taking pictures and videos at social events and using hashtags and such.

From what's been said here her "filming in the office" was a clip of her screen at the end of the video with the firm name and another on here criticized her for posting her full name both of which are her choice and really doesn't speak to her professionalism. Is posting her firm name a safety concern that I personally wouldn't do? definitely buts its a personal decision. I mean the Cravath tiktoker didn't post her full name or her firm name and somehow someone dedicated enough found her. We all know where Priscilla works and shes never said the name.

Trying to wrap my head around what is so egregious about a summer posting their first-day schedule, at most it's boring. I'm assuming the full name of staff was on schedule which truthfully she should have blurred out.
From what I gather her video just generally did not have enough content to be posted on here, it was truthfully boring. And yes their videos had different intentions one was meant to be funny and the other was meant to be serious. Still tone policing at the end of the day.

[toplurker235628]

So interesting to believe that someone making the choice to say where they work is unprofessional and should be criticized when the main reason why we know where Priscilla and other law influencers(lol) work is because of forums like these. lay people who watch their stuff aren’t taking the time search what office these people are in and if they are they aren’t outing them. They see BigLaw and NYC and they’re impressed and move on. Law students and lawyers on here and on Reddit continuously feel comfortable disregarding their choice not say where they work and out them just to gossip. They’ve taking the “professional” route all to be made redundant when other people in the field want to gossip about them.

The recent Reddit thread on Priscilla is just insane to me. That someone in the field felt comfortable posting that and others feel comfortable not only outing her firm now but her past firm just for laughs is insane.

[Anonymous User]

So interesting to believe that someone making the choice to say where they work is unprofessional and should be criticized when the main reason why we know where Priscilla and other law influencers(lol) work is because of forums like these. lay people who watch their stuff aren’t taking the time search what office these people are in and if they are they aren’t outing them. They see BigLaw and NYC and they’re impressed and move on. Law students and lawyers on here and on Reddit continuously feel comfortable disregarding their choice not say where they work and out them just to gossip. They’ve taking the “professional” route all to be made redundant when other people in the field want to gossip about them.

The recent Reddit thread on Priscilla is just insane to me. That someone in the field felt comfortable posting that and others feel comfortable not only outing her firm now but her past firm just for laughs is insane.

I mean Reuters posted where Priscilla works. And the girl at the beginning of this thread posted her firm logo.

[Anonymous User]

So interesting to believe that someone making the choice to say where they work is unprofessional and should be criticized when the main reason why we know where Priscilla and other law influencers(lol) work is because of forums like these. lay people who watch their stuff aren’t taking the time search what office these people are in and if they are they aren’t outing them. They see BigLaw and NYC and they’re impressed and move on. Law students and lawyers on here and on Reddit continuously feel comfortable disregarding their choice not say where they work and out them just to gossip. They’ve taking the “professional” route all to be made redundant when other people in the field want to gossip about them.

The recent Reddit thread on Priscilla is just insane to me. That someone in the field felt comfortable posting that and others feel comfortable not only outing her firm now but her past firm just for laughs is insane.

I mean Reuters posted where Priscilla works. And the girl at the beginning of this thread posted her firm logo.

The point is the personal decision to say where you work. The girl at the beginning decided she didn’t care if people online knew and posted her firm logo. Users on the thread labeled that decision as unprofessional. While Priscilla and other tiktokers have made the decision to never say where they work, their work places have been exposed on forums frequented by those in the field. Where Priscilla works was exposed on here and on Reddit a while back way before the Reuter article. Wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t look further than the Reddit thread to find out where she worked. Right now Priscilla’s last place of employment is being exposed by people in the field on Reddit.

My point is why is telling people (yourself) where you work deemed unprofessional and opens you up to criticism when others who actually try and hide where they work are exposed anyway not by lay people but by others in the field who are well aware that they have taken the precaution to not say what firm they work in. They can’t expose themselves because that’s bad but others can and that’s not bad????

[Anonymous User]

So interesting to believe that someone making the choice to say where they work is unprofessional and should be criticized when the main reason why we know where Priscilla and other law influencers(lol) work is because of forums like these. lay people who watch their stuff aren’t taking the time search what office these people are in and if they are they aren’t outing them. They see BigLaw and NYC and they’re impressed and move on. Law students and lawyers on here and on Reddit continuously feel comfortable disregarding their choice not say where they work and out them just to gossip. They’ve taking the “professional” route all to be made redundant when other people in the field want to gossip about them.

The recent Reddit thread on Priscilla is just insane to me. That someone in the field felt comfortable posting that and others feel comfortable not only outing her firm now but her past firm just for laughs is insane.

I mean Reuters posted where Priscilla works. And the girl at the beginning of this thread posted her firm logo.

The point is the personal decision to say where you work. The girl at the beginning decided she didn’t care if people online knew and posted her firm logo. Users on the thread labeled that decision as unprofessional. While Priscilla and other tiktokers have made the decision to never say where they work, their work places have been exposed on forums frequented by those in the field. Where Priscilla works was exposed on here and on Reddit a while back way before the Reuter article. Wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t look further than the Reddit thread to find out where she worked. Right now Priscilla’s last place of employment is being exposed by people in the field on Reddit.

My point is why is telling people (yourself) where you work deemed unprofessional and opens you up to criticism when others who actually try and hide where they work are exposed anyway not by lay people but by others in the field who are well aware that they have taken the precaution to not say what firm they work in. They can’t expose themselves because that’s bad but others can and that’s not bad????

IMO it’s unprofessional to post anything on TikTok on a public account that you wouldn’t want associated with your public, work identity. You can set TikTok to private/friends only.

[Anonymous User]

So interesting to believe that someone making the choice to say where they work is unprofessional and should be criticized when the main reason why we know where Priscilla and other law influencers(lol) work is because of forums like these. lay people who watch their stuff aren’t taking the time search what office these people are in and if they are they aren’t outing them. They see BigLaw and NYC and they’re impressed and move on. Law students and lawyers on here and on Reddit continuously feel comfortable disregarding their choice not say where they work and out them just to gossip. They’ve taking the “professional” route all to be made redundant when other people in the field want to gossip about them.

The recent Reddit thread on Priscilla is just insane to me. That someone in the field felt comfortable posting that and others feel comfortable not only outing her firm now but her past firm just for laughs is insane.

I mean Reuters posted where Priscilla works. And the girl at the beginning of this thread posted her firm logo.

The point is the personal decision to say where you work. The girl at the beginning decided she didn’t care if people online knew and posted her firm logo. Users on the thread labeled that decision as unprofessional. While Priscilla and other tiktokers have made the decision to never say where they work, their work places have been exposed on forums frequented by those in the field. Where Priscilla works was exposed on here and on Reddit a while back way before the Reuter article. Wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t look further than the Reddit thread to find out where she worked. Right now Priscilla’s last place of employment is being exposed by people in the field on Reddit.

My point is why is telling people (yourself) where you work deemed unprofessional and opens you up to criticism when others who actually try and hide where they work are exposed anyway not by lay people but by others in the field who are well aware that they have taken the precaution to not say what firm they work in. They can’t expose themselves because that’s bad but others can and that’s not bad????

IMO it’s unprofessional to post anything on TikTok on a public account that you wouldn’t want associated with your public, work identity. You can set TikTok to private/friends only.

I don't think that is completely related to what is being discussed but regardless it just makes it a damned if you do damned if you don't. The original girl this post was about felt comfortable enough with what she posted that she didn't mind it being associated with her public and work identity so much so she identified where she work. Several people found that decision to be unprofessional insinuating that the professional thing to do is to avoid using your full name and identifying where you work but when people do this they get outed anyway. The issue isn't that they don't want their social media identified because they're scared it will be associated with their work identity, they're accounts are public and many including Priscilla have stated that people they work with are aware of their presence. I think its more of a small safety precaution than anything that more or less works because regular people don't really care to deep dive and find out where someone really is, especially with the short attention span tiktok promotes.Most Lay people can't readily identify an office by a quick shot of a view or the tiles on the floor, but other lawyers can.

[Anonymous User]

So interesting to believe that someone making the choice to say where they work is unprofessional and should be criticized when the main reason why we know where Priscilla and other law influencers(lol) work is because of forums like these. lay people who watch their stuff aren’t taking the time search what office these people are in and if they are they aren’t outing them. They see BigLaw and NYC and they’re impressed and move on. Law students and lawyers on here and on Reddit continuously feel comfortable disregarding their choice not say where they work and out them just to gossip. They’ve taking the “professional” route all to be made redundant when other people in the field want to gossip about them.

The recent Reddit thread on Priscilla is just insane to me. That someone in the field felt comfortable posting that and others feel comfortable not only outing her firm now but her past firm just for laughs is insane.

I mean Reuters posted where Priscilla works. And the girl at the beginning of this thread posted her firm logo.

The point is the personal decision to say where you work. The girl at the beginning decided she didn’t care if people online knew and posted her firm logo. Users on the thread labeled that decision as unprofessional. While Priscilla and other tiktokers have made the decision to never say where they work, their work places have been exposed on forums frequented by those in the field. Where Priscilla works was exposed on here and on Reddit a while back way before the Reuter article. Wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t look further than the Reddit thread to find out where she worked. Right now Priscilla’s last place of employment is being exposed by people in the field on Reddit.

My point is why is telling people (yourself) where you work deemed unprofessional and opens you up to criticism when others who actually try and hide where they work are exposed anyway not by lay people but by others in the field who are well aware that they have taken the precaution to not say what firm they work in. They can’t expose themselves because that’s bad but others can and that’s not bad????

IMO it’s unprofessional to post anything on TikTok on a public account that you wouldn’t want associated with your public, work identity. You can set TikTok to private/friends only.

I don't think that is completely related to what is being discussed but regardless it just makes it a damned if you do damned if you don't. The original girl this post was about felt comfortable enough with what she posted that she didn't mind it being associated with her public and work identity so much so she identified where she work. Several people found that decision to be unprofessional insinuating that the professional thing to do is to avoid using your full name and identifying where you work but when people do this they get outed anyway. The issue isn't that they don't want their social media identified because they're scared it will be associated with their work identity, they're accounts are public and many including Priscilla have stated that people they work with are aware of their presence. I think its more of a small safety precaution than anything that more or less works because regular people don't really care to deep dive and find out where someone really is, especially with the short attention span tiktok promotes.Most Lay people can't readily identify an office by a quick shot of a view or the tiles on the floor, but other lawyers can.

The moral: don't post on tiktok if you care about your legal career.