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Lol wordperfect in 2018. Even at a lawfirm.
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Roger_Mudd posted:I’ve signed a non disclosure but I can talk about the IT. i feel like this level of IT incompetence has to violate a host of ethical rules about effectively safeguarding client information if you are using outlook 97 honestly the only reason your systems probably still work is that the hackers who have owned your poo poo are keeping it patched to keep other hackers out and keep the systems online
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Jan 29, 2018 23:24
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Sounds like you work in a telemarketer phone bank Jesus Christ
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Jan 29, 2018 23:59
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Goddamn pm me that firm name
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Jan 30, 2018 00:19
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Roger_Mudd posted:I’ve signed a non disclosure but I can talk about the IT. This is amazing
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Jan 30, 2018 02:41
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EwokEntourage posted:This is amazing Now imagine all of the things like this but I can’t tell you because of the NDA.
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Jan 30, 2018 02:54
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nm posted:Lol wordperfect in 2018. Even at a lawfirm. I had a boss at an IP boutique who wished he could go back to writing everything in wordperfect (before law school). Fortunately, I was in charge of IT so our poo poo was up to date. Edit: It wasn't in the "I'm a crotchety old man" way, it was in the "I could make it do back flips one handed" kind of way. He was generally an awesome tech savvy dude.
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Jan 30, 2018 04:00
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Meatbag Esq. posted:I had a boss at an IP boutique who wished he could go back to writing everything in wordperfect (before law school). Fortunately, I was in charge of IT so our poo poo was up to date. Word perfect was "better" in the sense that you could conrol things more granularly. You know, when it wasn't crashing. I worked IT for a law firm in another life around 2002 and we supported both wordperfect and word. Other than stability, WP was still better.
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Jan 30, 2018 04:03
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nm posted:Word perfect was "better" in the sense that you could conrol things more granularly. You know, when it wasn't crashing. I miss the "reveal codes" option. You could look at a WP document and understand why it was hosed up more easily than Word by far. Of course, Word is also light years over a shared google doc, so yay.
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Jan 30, 2018 04:31
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ulmont posted:I miss the "reveal codes" option. You could look at a WP document and understand why it was hosed up more easily than Word by far. today, when i pasted something into a word document, it changed the font no, not of just what i pasted. thanks word.
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Jan 30, 2018 05:08
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WP and WordStar (my favorite) made sense back in the days before GUIs. It was fun being an arcane wizard. Then the 90s came.
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Jan 30, 2018 05:12
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homullus posted:Extensive working from home can be unhealthy, depending on your personal needs (structure, interaction) and your home (distraction-free and appropriate office environment). There's a tax break for a home office, though, and using commute time for literally anything else including sleeping is pretty great. It's worth doing the budget and tax math before you even get to the stuff that's harder to quantify. This is a real thing. When I first started my practice and I was working from home it was the most depressing time in my legal career. Turns out, having no structure or people to talk to does not do wonders for my productivity (or general well being). Fortunately, my situation improved and I now have people around but you could not pay me to work from home again.
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Jan 30, 2018 05:19
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I go to the gym every day at the same time so that helps
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Jan 30, 2018 05:30
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Working from home loving sucks unless you've got it set up right
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Jan 30, 2018 13:10
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Roger_Mudd posted:Now imagine all of the things like this but I can’t tell you because of the NDA. South Korea has been really hard for us to sell legal tech, practice management software etc into because half the goddamn country still uses Lotus Notes. Yes, I know it was a technically superior product when you made the buy decision in 1994 or whenever. Get over it. God.
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Jan 30, 2018 13:29
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terrorist ambulance posted:Working from home loving sucks unless you've got it set up right I would take a 10% cut to work from home because my commute is poo poo and I can do 99% of my job from out of the office. I can actually do most of it on my phone. So I wouldn’t stay at home all day. Would be cool to get errands done and maybe get a gym going habit to stick. The savings in gas, car Wear and tear, and parking would easily make up for the pay cut. Didn’t even think about the home office deduction.
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Jan 30, 2018 15:00
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Look Sir Droids posted:I would take a 10% cut to work from home because my commute is poo poo and I can do 99% of my job from out of the office. I can actually do most of it on my phone. So I wouldn’t stay at home all day. Would be cool to get errands done and maybe get a gym going habit to stick. But for real, starting your day at home, doing your work at home, and then already being home creates a kind of stasis that can crush you if you're not ready. A gym membership that you use daily would help, but it's not enough, and I say that as a solid introvert. It's more like gym membership that you use daily AND three or more knitting groups/game nights/dance lessons a week to keep you interacting with people you don't share your refrigerator with. Think about the efforts responsible parents make to socialize their kids when they homeschool them -- that's what you need to build around yourself to be successful working from home. Saving the time and money of the commute is excellent, you are correct about that.
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Jan 30, 2018 15:11
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homullus posted:But for real, starting your day at home, doing your work at home, and then already being home creates a kind of stasis that can crush you if you're not ready. A gym membership that you use daily would help, but it's not enough, and I say that as a solid introvert. It's more like gym membership that you use daily AND three or more knitting groups/game nights/dance lessons a week to keep you interacting with people you don't share your refrigerator with. Think about the efforts responsible parents make to socialize their kids when they homeschool them -- that's what you need to build around yourself to be successful working from home. Sure. My wife works from home a lot though and I barely talk to anyone at the office as is, so I’m not missing much there. My bigger concern would be getting fat as gently caress. I worked at home during a snow day a couple weeks ago and got something to eat every time I went downstairs.
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Jan 30, 2018 15:19
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I prefer office because I'm mad irresponsible at home. That said, I know where Roger works and he needs to take the new job and then keep looking for an even better gig. Eventually he and Scrapps will form a firm and that'll be that.
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Jan 30, 2018 16:08
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I mean the whole working from home if that's all you do can definitely get old, but he's not "working from home" rather than just using his home office to prepare for court every day. So he's still seeing and interacting with people, and he needs to take that job.
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Jan 30, 2018 16:11
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Beefeater1980 posted:South Korea has been really hard for us to sell legal tech, practice management software etc into because half the goddamn country still uses Lotus Notes.
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Jan 30, 2018 16:44
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:I prefer office because I'm mad irresponsible at home. That said, I know where Roger works and he needs to take the new job and then keep looking for an even better gig. Eventually he and Scrapps will form a firm and that'll be that. No one wants the cases I take. No one.
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Jan 30, 2018 16:45
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homullus posted:But for real, starting your day at home, doing your work at home, and then already being home creates a kind of stasis that can crush you if you're not ready. A gym membership that you use daily would help, but it's not enough, and I say that as a solid introvert. It's more like gym membership that you use daily AND three or more knitting groups/game nights/dance lessons a week to keep you interacting with people you don't share your refrigerator with. Think about the efforts responsible parents make to socialize their kids when they homeschool them -- that's what you need to build around yourself to be successful working from home. I take shitposting breaks if that helps
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Jan 30, 2018 18:13
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WhiskeyJuvenile posted:I take shitposting breaks if that helps I am glad you take breaks from shitposting, I've been meaning to try that myself
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Jan 30, 2018 18:45
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What do all you solo guys do for health insurance?
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Jan 30, 2018 20:02
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mastershakeman posted:What do all you solo guys do for health insurance? Spouse with real job
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Jan 30, 2018 20:13
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mastershakeman posted:What do all you solo guys do for health insurance? What state do you practice in? I know in Texas the state bar association has a private exchange. It’s probably a shitshow but it might be the least bad option.
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Jan 30, 2018 20:20
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disjoe posted:What state do you practice in? Illinois. I've been doing contract review for a while, but running into some hiccups with healthcare.gov . I'd been eyeing going back to the old poo poo I did just for health insurance (lots of court stepup) but I hated it and was wondering about other options.
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Jan 30, 2018 20:34
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guam
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Jan 31, 2018 05:14
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In today's installment of Whitlam's Adventures in Lawyer Finishing School we had Negotiation, which consisted of our group being split. Three quarters of us were employees, one quarter were employers, role playing the establishment of a new firm. Our first action as employees was to unionise, which we were told was "against the spirit of the exercise". In brighter news, I found out my compulsory placement can be reduced from 25 days to 15 due to prior experience I've had at a crim firm. It may not sound like much but given I have a real job already that I kind of need to be at, I'll take any reduction I can. 
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Jan 31, 2018 13:29
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Roger_Mudd posted:I’ve signed a non disclosure but I can talk about the IT. To find an appropriate image to illustrate this setup, I googled "Chicken Coop Computer" but no results were sufficient.
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Jan 31, 2018 15:44
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Whitlam posted:In today's installment of Whitlam's Adventures in Lawyer Finishing School we had Negotiation, which consisted of our group being split. Three quarters of us were employees, one quarter were employers, role playing the establishment of a new firm. Our first action as employees was to unionise, which we were told was "against the spirit of the exercise". This is beautiful.
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Jan 31, 2018 16:30
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Today I got “written up” because I emailed an appellate brief to my boss and he didn’t check his email this weekend. I robbed him of his time. Roger_Mudd - time robber
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Jan 31, 2018 16:44
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Jan 31, 2018 16:53
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nm posted:What? I wasn’t going to finish a brief by end of business, I got written approval to work on it from home and email it to him that night. I did so. He then didn’t check his email all weekend. Can’t you see how it’s my fault he didn’t work on it this weekend?
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Jan 31, 2018 16:55
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Roger please...quit....
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Jan 31, 2018 16:56
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Roger_Mudd posted:I wasn’t going to finish a brief by end of business, I got written approval to work on it from home and email it to him that night. I did so. He then didn’t check his email all weekend. Get the gently caress out of there
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Jan 31, 2018 17:01
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:Roger please...quit.... Yeah. I’m going to “meet the other attorneys” at a small civil defense firm today or Friday. Hopefully that turns into an offer. Should be same amount of work and more pay. I’m using the offer at the other firm for leverage.
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Jan 31, 2018 17:02
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Roger_Mudd posted:Yeah. I’m going to “meet the other attorneys” at a small civil defense firm today or Friday. Hopefully that turns into an offer. Should be same amount of work and more pay. I follow a handful of attorneys our age on linkedin. It's amazing how much people hop around. Meanwhile I just keep doing my own thing and now attorneys are like "Hey you wanna cover for me while I'm on vacation? You do a good job." Lmbo On the other hand I get no vacation or benefits G-Mawwwwwww fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Jan 31, 2018 |
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Roger_Mudd posted:I wasn’t going to finish a brief by end of business, I got written approval to work on it from home and email it to him that night. I did so. He then didn’t check his email all weekend. Could you please burn down your office when you quit, this all sounds like crazytown even compared to biglaw
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