Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Juice Disgusted by Good Old Boys

So, interviews today went well. There was one place that was terrible, though. Ugh. Total good-ol'-boys club. Two middle-aged guys, blah blah blah. One of the guys said, "Yeah, it's pretty common in our firm for us to go out, talk about baseball, talk about football, then say, 'Hey, what do you four guys think about X?'" Um...OK. Pretty macho, whatever. Then they said, basically, "So, will you be able to set aside your social justice ideals to make our big business clients happy?" What? WHAT? I told them the two weren't mutually exclusive, that they were taking a pretty Aristotelian approach to the law if they think that there is no social good to be achieved in counseling large businesses, that social good can be achieved in all areas of law, and that a large firm actually is in a unique position to lead to greater public good because of their resources to do pro bono work and affect public policy. Well, I said more than that, and think I may have shamed them a bit, because as soon as I had finished they backpedaled some and said "Oh, yeah, that's totally what we do, our lawyers are very involved in pro bono work, and we take a very proactive approach to counseling our clients...." Blah blah blah. Whatever. Jerks. Would have been a good time to ask if they would let me bring my nine to the job.

10 Comments:

At 5:36 AM, Blogger Unknown said...

Boo on them.

 
At 5:49 AM, Blogger Unknown said...

You have a nine year old?

 
At 8:54 AM, Blogger Dr Em said...

you go juice!

 
At 9:00 AM, Blogger LA said...

Good thing you didn't ask about the 9 or they would have offered you the job!

 
At 10:30 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

call me ignorant, but what is a nine?

 
At 10:06 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

"nine" is slang for "9 mm", a.k.a. a gun that fires 9 mm ammunition, like a Glock .

 
At 8:24 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well, I had my interview and I got the job! We'll be moving to Rock Island, Illinois in December. And it is a promotion. I'm very excited, even without a gun!

 
At 3:50 PM, Blogger LA said...

Excellent news M.I.L. of Juice! Rock Island is part of the "Quad Cities" as you probably know. It's a really nice place to visit, loads of antique shops and restaurants. It's very pretty in the fall. It's also MUCH closer to MN than where you are now.

 
At 9:25 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks LA! Any information about the area is appreciated as I was there only once for a class several years ago and spent most of the time there too jet lagged to notice much.

I checked Expedia, there are DIRECT flights from Moline to Minneapolis. DIL, take note, I can show up on your doorstep in one hour and 19 minutes with NO WARNING. BWAHAHAHHAHAHAH

 
At 5:58 AM, Blogger Ugly Juice said...

(LA! Did you really say a-n-t-i-q-u-e in front of my mother-in-law??? Danger!)

One hour & 19 minutes, huh? I must process this.

 

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