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Sep. 2nd, 2011 07:50 amYesterday gave me wood in the workplace. Not wood like...real wood, more like workplace wood. Political wood. None of this makes for good storytelling.
Here is one thing of interest: Today's woot shirt is "Alchemy"
Wood 1:
Crazy bitch who isolates herself from the group, who has attacked all her coworkers at different times, who was the only one who wouldn't help the intern, who has attacked over 5 managers (politically, though she's so bitter and angry I honestly fear her going postal), was trying to settle a case for (huge dollars in our poor world) when she was forced to call the entire branch together for a conference call to discuss the case. With only minutes before the meeting, she sent out her analysis of the case.
The entire analysis was flawed.
It was so flawed, it sounded as if she just laid out the case as described by the Complainant. There were procedural motions screamingly obvious that were not made. There was no discovery done on the case whatsoever - instead of discovery she had jumped into mediated settlement discussions.
In the meeting, it didn't get better for her. This made me happy.
The Director, an attorney who has also done this work, asked simple polite questions but ones that exposed these huge flaws, and rather than answer crazybitch started talking loudly, literally advocating for the Complainant, evading answers, repeating the same nonresponsive arguments, then interrupting the Director repeatedly and either crying or sighing repeatedly in an upset way. It got so bad the Director had to shout her down (and he tried everything else first, repeatedly).
This is the twat who came after me and rimmed this very Director in an attempt to elevate herself by accusing me of nepotism - or my boss of nepotism with me.
She utterly sabotaged herself and the Dir showed her sucking ass and backstabbing was no substitute for actually doing her job. The Director also showed he wasn't falling for the old tricks that cost the Agency money but save the litigator work.
I don't claim to be the brightest, but I do work hard.
It's been pointed out that rather than beg to settle, I ask permission to litigate anyway given the price of settlement, including political cost. I don't ask to forfeit, I ask permission to try and lose rather than quit.
So by default I'm in a better position at work.
Wood 2:
THEN I stayed late to get an unexpected MSJ out. I think it may become my new writing sample, for I did something odd - I took 2 complaints; 1 of 13 allegations, the other of just one long allegation, and parsed them out to show that rather than a general charge of "harassment" or "hostile work environment" which is a difficult to dismiss charge of factual contentions meriting a hearing, the real issues were two discrete acts held on two days - with the rest of the allegations originating in those discrete acts. I then presented about 80 pages of evidence that the alleged discrete acts were contradicted by (reality).
While I was working on that I got an email from the attorney, who is on CA time and knows I work early, asking whether the Agency opposed an extension for him to respond to an order. I knew if I got this out, and soon, that scumbag would have to respond to my motion at the same time - making him work harder in a short period of time. He's a scumbag, and extension requests are one of his many skeezy MOs (though in this rare occasion he requested it before the deadline itself).
Literally as I was drafting the email to transmit the motion, his email requesting the extension went to the AJ (cc to me) noting the Agency hadn't responded. I issued the Agency's MSJ within minutes.
This AM I got the notice from the AJ she was accepting my motion for consideration and having the Complainant respond to it by the deadline (with extension). Score.
Work stuff. It's not as fun as the fucking-fighting type cases, but cutting through bs makes me happy.
Here is one thing of interest: Today's woot shirt is "Alchemy"
Wood 1:
Crazy bitch who isolates herself from the group, who has attacked all her coworkers at different times, who was the only one who wouldn't help the intern, who has attacked over 5 managers (politically, though she's so bitter and angry I honestly fear her going postal), was trying to settle a case for (huge dollars in our poor world) when she was forced to call the entire branch together for a conference call to discuss the case. With only minutes before the meeting, she sent out her analysis of the case.
The entire analysis was flawed.
It was so flawed, it sounded as if she just laid out the case as described by the Complainant. There were procedural motions screamingly obvious that were not made. There was no discovery done on the case whatsoever - instead of discovery she had jumped into mediated settlement discussions.
In the meeting, it didn't get better for her. This made me happy.
The Director, an attorney who has also done this work, asked simple polite questions but ones that exposed these huge flaws, and rather than answer crazybitch started talking loudly, literally advocating for the Complainant, evading answers, repeating the same nonresponsive arguments, then interrupting the Director repeatedly and either crying or sighing repeatedly in an upset way. It got so bad the Director had to shout her down (and he tried everything else first, repeatedly).
This is the twat who came after me and rimmed this very Director in an attempt to elevate herself by accusing me of nepotism - or my boss of nepotism with me.
She utterly sabotaged herself and the Dir showed her sucking ass and backstabbing was no substitute for actually doing her job. The Director also showed he wasn't falling for the old tricks that cost the Agency money but save the litigator work.
I don't claim to be the brightest, but I do work hard.
It's been pointed out that rather than beg to settle, I ask permission to litigate anyway given the price of settlement, including political cost. I don't ask to forfeit, I ask permission to try and lose rather than quit.
So by default I'm in a better position at work.
Wood 2:
THEN I stayed late to get an unexpected MSJ out. I think it may become my new writing sample, for I did something odd - I took 2 complaints; 1 of 13 allegations, the other of just one long allegation, and parsed them out to show that rather than a general charge of "harassment" or "hostile work environment" which is a difficult to dismiss charge of factual contentions meriting a hearing, the real issues were two discrete acts held on two days - with the rest of the allegations originating in those discrete acts. I then presented about 80 pages of evidence that the alleged discrete acts were contradicted by (reality).
While I was working on that I got an email from the attorney, who is on CA time and knows I work early, asking whether the Agency opposed an extension for him to respond to an order. I knew if I got this out, and soon, that scumbag would have to respond to my motion at the same time - making him work harder in a short period of time. He's a scumbag, and extension requests are one of his many skeezy MOs (though in this rare occasion he requested it before the deadline itself).
Literally as I was drafting the email to transmit the motion, his email requesting the extension went to the AJ (cc to me) noting the Agency hadn't responded. I issued the Agency's MSJ within minutes.
This AM I got the notice from the AJ she was accepting my motion for consideration and having the Complainant respond to it by the deadline (with extension). Score.
Work stuff. It's not as fun as the fucking-fighting type cases, but cutting through bs makes me happy.
