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Get Laid Off And . . . Be Happy???
Last week, I wrote about the layoffs at my firm. As I said, two of my friends were laid off. Just a few days ago, one of those friends (on his first day as an unemployed 20-something) sent me and a few other people the following e-mail: “Hi...
YouTube Friday - Tim Ferris Guest Lecture
I stumbled across a short video of a guest lecture by Tim Ferriss at Princeton back in 2005. Ferriss, as you know, is the author of The 4-Hour Workweek, one of my favorite books. (Indeed, I’ve read it twice now). In this lecture, Tim is ans...
Flimjo 2, Beaker 0
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a mini-battle I had with Beaker (my boss) about a three-day weekend I had taken for a short vacation getaway. I did not relent, and I took that Friday off despite Beaker’s resistance. Flimjo 1, Beaker 0....
Is One Weekend Too Much To Ask For?
When you’re an office-dwelling employee at a big firm, things can get a bit tricky when you want to take a day off and enjoy an extended weekend getaway with your family. That is what I am trying to do this weekend (i.e., take tomorrow off an...
The Man Strikes Again
I could not post on Saturday or Sunday because the Man struck again. I got called into the office yesterday and worked almost 10 hours. It was, indeed, an un-glorious day marked with mismanagement, duplicative work, and dueling supervisors (but ...
I Feel Like Donnie Brasco
I felt like Donnie Brasco yesterday. The trial I had worked on for the past month settled on the eve of closing arguments. I worked like a dog for the past week and a half preparing for trial and performing various tasks throughout the trial. (...
10 More Reasons to Quit Your Job
I posted a list of 10 reasons to quit your job not too long ago. After this past weekend, I decided to come up with list of 10 more reasons to quit your job. This list is based on the concept that every job has absurd and ridiculous demands. Th...
The Hard Working Man
Should I call myself a hard working man? Is that something of which I should be proud? Well, no. I refuse to be that, and I’m working feverishly on the side to escape that label. I had some great ideas for posts for yesterday, but I wor...
A Weekend to Remember
I had to fore-go posting today. I apologize. This is has been a weekend to remember. I have an overloaded weekend of work. I’m on a trial team, working hard preparing for a trial that begins next week. In addition, I have other assi...
How Risk Hides the Uncertainty of Leaving the 9 to 5
Last week, I wrote about my very conservative friend from work, and his views on money, investing, and starting a business. I finished that post with two key ideas: 1) Risk is inversely proportional to knowledge. 2) People use “risk” to hide th...
The 9-to-5 Grind . . . or 9-to-9 Grind
I had an incredible experience yesterday. Something that will resonate with me for a while. First, however, we need some background. My Nemesis I usually have to work with different people on various projects as they come down the pipe. There are...
Working All Weekend
Last Thursday, I sat in on a conference call with our co-counsel in this case that has gained momentum over the past couple of months. Aside from our co-counsel, Beaker (the nickname for my boss) was present, and so was a more senior associate nam...
Write Your Own Farewell E-mail
If you’re an employee, you probably feel like you’re running in place. You might even feel like you’re stuck in quicksand. You may not have a lot of money saved up yet to start your own business. You might not have done very m...
The 8-Hour Work Day is a Bunch of Crap
Every day when I’m at work, I try to be as productive as possible. When I get in early in the morning, I’m at my peak production level. I zoom through my assignments and tasks, and I feel unstoppable. But then . . . the 11 o’c...
Work And Retirement: How Deferring It All To The End Ultimately Fails
When I started in my current job, I met a member of the firm’s staff. She was an elder lady in her 60s, and she maintained the kitchens on the various floors in working order (i.e., cleaning, making sure coffee was available, and that there w...
What You “Do” Isn’t You
One of the great concepts from Tim Ferriss’s The 4-Hour Workweek is the idea that what you do as a job isn’t a reflection of who you are. What You Do Isn’t a Reflection of Who You Are According to Ferriss, too often, a typical conv...
Ridiculous E-mail Requests
I was sitting in my office at work the other day when I get the following e-mail from an associate in another office. Pay particular attention to the words in parentheses: “We are looking for local counsel in Vietnam (with English speaking ca...
10 Signs That You Need To Quit Your Job
Work has been a bit stressful for me lately. Nevertheless, I try to inject some humor into my day whenever I can. I do this by maintaining some sort of perspective while I slave away for the Man. Every job has some absurd and ridiculous demand...
The Day It All Changed
Some of us have a defining moment that pushes us over the edge. We know what we want to do. We know how to get there. But we keep putting it off . . . for whatever reason. We simply need that little push to get us over the hump and on the fas...
Have You Earned It?
I was in the bathroom the other day at work. One of the partners I have worked for in the past walked in, and we chatted a bit. What transpired is just another humorous example of what’s wrong with employee life and “working for the m...
The 3 a.m. Rule
(This post contains another story about my life as an employee. I thought the last one–Working For The Man–got a good response, so I want to make such stories more regular. I like these stories because they illustrate something more ...
