Poll on library etiquette
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 12:01 am
Starting a poll relating to a set of circumstances I am currently experiencing.
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MrKappus wrote: Unless you're going to be in-house counsel at a monastery
To be fair, because libraries are dead silent, little noises tend to be magnified. It's a lot easier to concentrate in a place with a lot of background noise (an office, a coffee shop) than in a library with just one or two people making noise - the background noise is a lot easier to tone out. That being said, I am definitely guilty of the library food sneaking - I try my hardest to be as quiet as possible though.MrKappus wrote:I'm the first one to get pissed off at library rudeness, but is this shit serious? As long as it's a single-serving bag and not a huge-ass bag of Doritos, who the fuck cares?? It'll be over in like 5 minutes. Go take a walk around the floor. Surf the web for ten minutes (which it looks like you did anyway, OP). Smoke a cigarette, read the news, or go find a friend to talk to.
Or, even better, learn to tune out distractions and stop being an easily distracted 5 year-old. You're all going to work in offices some day, doing important stuff that requires concentration...and guess what? IT'S NOT GOING TO BE DEAD SILENT. PEOPLE ARE GOING TO TALK, CHIPS ARE GOING TO BE EATEN, and PHONES ARE GOING TO RING. Unless you're going to be in-house counsel at a monastery, it's going to be a hell of a lot noisier than 5 minutes of chips. Suck it up.
I'm all for library etiquette, but this thread's ridiculous.
Edited for PC-ness.
+1MrKappus wrote:I'm the first one to get pissed off at library rudeness, but is this shit serious? As long as it's a single-serving bag and not a huge-ass bag of Doritos, who the fuck cares?? It'll be over in like 5 minutes. Go take a walk around the floor. Surf the web for ten minutes (which it looks like you did anyway, OP). Smoke a cigarette, read the news, or go find a friend to talk to.
Or, even better, learn to tune out distractions and stop being an easily distracted 5 year-old. You're all going to work in offices some day, doing important stuff that requires concentration...and guess what? IT'S NOT GOING TO BE DEAD SILENT. PEOPLE ARE GOING TO TALK, CHIPS ARE GOING TO BE EATEN, and PHONES ARE GOING TO RING. Unless you're going to be in-house counsel at a monastery, it's going to be a hell of a lot noisier than 5 minutes of chips. Suck it up.
I'm all for library etiquette, but this thread's ridiculous.
Edited for PC-ness.
What if you negligently do something noisy in a place where quiet is necessary and expected. Are you also a bad person?FunkyJD wrote:If you deliberately do something noisy in a place where quiet is necessary and expected, you're a bad person.
FJD's "deliberate" language also leads me to believe that involuntary noise does not result in the "bad person" label. Maybe the original offender had a Doritos compulsion.Black-Blue wrote:What if you negligently do something noisy in a place where quiet is necessary and expected. Are you also a bad person?FunkyJD wrote:If you deliberately do something noisy in a place where quiet is necessary and expected, you're a bad person.
I think there's an implied easement because people have been doing it so long without opposition.Black-Blue wrote:I think this would make a good hypo for a crim law exam. First, you analyze if the statute says that dorito eating in the library is a malum in se crime or if it requires a mens rea. Then, you figure out what was the mens rea of the dorito eater.
It would also make a good policy question for a contracts exam -- should a social contract to keep quiet in the library be enforceable?
I was going to ask what size bag of chips we're talking about here. If it's a single serving bag, then it's not a big deal. If they pull out the full-size bag, then that's pretty bad form.MrKappus wrote:As long as it's a single-serving bag and not a huge-ass bag of Doritos, who the fuck cares??
Any tips on how to get this kind of gig straight out of LS? Do you need a few years in biglaw before you can lateral?MrKappus wrote:Unless you're going to be in-house counsel at a monastery, it's going to be a hell of a lot noisier than 5 minutes of chips.
A few years in biglaw's probably the most orthodox way. In-house jobs look for a trinity of features: legal experience, mgmt capability, and stability. But even a monastery in-house job can be stressful, so you'd want the biglaw background so you don't get crucified.JazzOne wrote:I was going to ask what size bag of chips we're talking about here. If it's a single serving bag, then it's not a big deal. If they pull out the full-size bag, then that's pretty bad form.MrKappus wrote:As long as it's a single-serving bag and not a huge-ass bag of Doritos, who the fuck cares??
Any tips on how to get this kind of gig straight out of LS? Do you need a few years in biglaw before you can lateral?MrKappus wrote:Unless you're going to be in-house counsel at a monastery, it's going to be a hell of a lot noisier than 5 minutes of chips.
I threw you a softball, but you really knocked it out of the park.MrKappus wrote:A few years in biglaw's probably the most orthodox way. In-house jobs look for a trinity of features: legal experience, mgmt capability, and stability. But even a monastery in-house job can be stressful, so you'd want the biglaw background so you don't get crucified.JazzOne wrote:I was going to ask what size bag of chips we're talking about here. If it's a single serving bag, then it's not a big deal. If they pull out the full-size bag, then that's pretty bad form.MrKappus wrote:As long as it's a single-serving bag and not a huge-ass bag of Doritos, who the fuck cares??
Any tips on how to get this kind of gig straight out of LS? Do you need a few years in biglaw before you can lateral?MrKappus wrote:Unless you're going to be in-house counsel at a monastery, it's going to be a hell of a lot noisier than 5 minutes of chips.
I'll avoid the obvious altar boy/biglaw jokes (both get you screwed!). I guess I didn't avoid it.
Think about this.jgarber72 wrote:I even wonder why most students even go to the library. Meaning, I may see one percent (1%) actually looking in a law book. Everyone seems to just look through Westlaw or Lexis. If you want to eat while "studying", go to Starbucks or Barnes & Noble if you only plan on using online citation services. Does anyone even know how to research a case through books anymore?