Writer's Block 2

i honestly haven’t even chosen a topic for my next post

so let’s do the stream of consciousness thing

i like tutoring the LSAT

i do not have shitty or abusive bosses

i get to work one on one with people

i get to see how much i’ve helped them

..

why put myself under the thumb of abusive and/or transphobic people?

i don’t have to

how much is happiness worth, i guess?

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plus i can work 30 hours a week

pay for all my expenses

with a nice side dish left over

what do i need more money for?

i’d rather have the time to live

i remember playing a big role in originating a case

with no senior partner involved

and after we got it, one of the junior partners said to me

”this is one for the firm”

as in, expect jack shit for bringing it in

and, indeed, i got jack shit

...

so that kind of corporatism can go fork itself

if your claim to a share of income is “i’m old and i’ve been here a long time”

(i.e., i will fuck your career up if you cross me)

retire already

you’re literally just hanging around

to steal money from younger people that actually do things

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ethically, you’re a thief like any other

you should know that

the fact you have the power to do it doesn’t make it ethical

it makes it more blameworthy

what does your god think of thieving from the less fortunate?

you think im going to talk about twitter

im not

im talking around twitter, on purpose

it weighs in the background of your mind

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it would be an anti-climatic climax for me to talk about twitter

everyone has a twitter take

boring

the milieu is more interesting

they added this gallery capability on substack so i wanted to use it

super cool right?

i can tell weird, arch stories through pictures!

i mean, i did before

but this is quicker and clearer, imo

did you ever hear about what happened to Cad[redacted]’s1 bankruptcy group?

basically, they developed a reputation for treating associates awfully

so associates started leaving

and the group couldn’t mislead hire associates

so they started having staffing problems

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so then the partners who aren’t shitty to associates

go “fuck this noise, i can’t staff cases”

and start leaving for other firms

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and then you’ve got the rotting husk of a badly run department

with the worst people left

and it all started with associate retention

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what would happen if associates tried to unionize, i wonder?

could firms even scab them?

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no, they couldn’t. i did the math

kirkland would collapse2 

if more than ~12.8% of its associates stopped working for a month

and it takes a long time to hire that many associates

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closings don’t close

covenants are breached

deals aren’t documented

partners turn on each other to find staffing

earnings collapse

…

sounds fun!

so one of the producers at Risk and I exchanged like 10 emails

they’re only casting for the holiday shows rn

but they’ll get in touch with me once January casting starts

so cool! so classic! so crazy!

keep your fingers crossed for another month-ish, mkay?

i offered up Mania & Psychosis, Sexual Assault, Sugar Baby

and my unfinished piece about the FBI visit I received in 2020

pretty sure it’ll be Mania & Psychosis

would be so cool to share my stories with tens of thousands of people

the LSAT was last saturday

so i’ve had like no hours this week

its scary having so much free time

work anchors us, ya know?

we all need purpose

and to create

yeah?