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[vicarz]

So I went to SF and really didn't do anything SF-like, no castro, no haight ashbury, didn't smoke pot for my headache, didn't have sex with men, didn't go to a snooty goth night, didn't beg for spange, didn't do art, didn't ride public trans, didn't eat vegan on purpose...

I did have dinner and blah-blah with a smart friend who has been around small children for so long she mistook me for someone who could hold an adult conversation. I'm hoping I put that mistake to rest.

I dealt with that bulbous-nosed slimeball attorney from SF on this trip. He was fairly well behaved in person, except for one raging slimeball move: in front of our court reporter he talked about making our own copies -nudge nudge- of the deposition transcripts. Really!? For reference, when you use a reporter you sign a contract that you will not do exactly that - they charge about $300-500 for the first copy, and about $50 for subsequent copies to the same recipient. Sometimes we may get multiple copies and distribute them, but to run them off a photocopier is to run the reporter out of business. It's a contract and ethics violation to do it, stupid and RUDE to talk about that in front of the schmuck to needs that money for rent. Dickwad.

He had one of the most humble law offices I've ever seen - it was as musty, old, and humble as a government office. I think it wasn't a firm but a shared space of independent lawyers.

Here is another work fuckyou
Our records show that you signed up to be notified when the status of your application for a job you applied to changes.
Job Announcement:
Agency Name: Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office
Job Title: General Attorney - Employment and Labor Law (Amended)
Series: 0905
Grade: 13 to 15
Announcement #: AH-10-0033-EX
New Status: Minimum Qualification Requirements Not Met
Really!? I'm a GS-14 level attorney doing employment law, bar cert...I'm not really interested in leaping over to patent, but I call total bullshit on that. I've gone over their announcements, my quals, and my application thoroughly because I've received that message from them before. I'm really confused to the point _I_ consider filing an EEO complaint just because their process cannot result in the result they are getting through any logic I can see. Please fellows - educate me.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_blackjack_/]

I'm really confused to the point _I_ consider filing an EEO complaint just because their process cannot result in the result they are getting through any logic I can see. Please fellows - educate me.

It's because you're too fat.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid it's only you that is obsessed with that subject.

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

Is that their way of saying 'sorry you didn't get the job' without being more specific and risking setting off some way of getting sued?

[vicar.livejournal.com]

Absolutely - but here is a case where I've been doing the job in question, literally the same, for about 5 years and they say rejected as "unqualified." This is not possible, so error, my idiocy, or ??? are the culprits. "We liked someone better" I'd buy in a heartbeat, but unqual? Not possible in this case.

Anyone can sue - luckily big orgs have staff on payroll to handle such issues.

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

I vote for idiocy to explain it. Though if there's a contact person, you could try calling and asking which qualification they thought you didn't have.

[vicar.livejournal.com]

That's my more likely scenario.