Forum Overview :: Dead Trees :: "Big Debt, Small Law" is good

[quote name="Ray of Light"]<a href=http://bigdebtsmalllaw.wordpress.com/>Big Debt, Small Law</a>. This guy, a graduate of a "second-tier" American law school, illustrates the hopelessness of his position in a series of funny blog posts. [quote] We were paid $21 an hour, straight time, and required to work from 9 am to 11 pm seven days a week. Forbidden to use the firm’s lavish upstairs restrooms, they had all 120 of us split a pair of airplane sized-bathrooms that were on the Concourse level under the Rock Center, open to the public and a favorite bathing spot for the homeless. One affable homeless chap named “Bones” would use the lone toilet in there as a foot bidet, rinsing his diabetic ulcer in the excrement-caked shitpot and yelling <em>“I’m in here motherfucker!”</em>every time one of us coders needed to relieve himself. Most of us just went next door and used the Heartland Brewery’s bathroom (did I mention that restroom breaks of over six minutes had to be deducted from one’s timesheet? As a coder, bowel movements can quickly cut into the bottom line). [<i>"Coder" here means some kind of legal grind-work, not programming. --Ray</i>]  Paul Weiss also blocked the fire exits with box upon box of the corporate shit-paper that arrived daily by the truckload like grist to a mill. Had a fire broken out, we would no doubt have burned to death in a modern day <em>Triangle Shirtwaist</em> incident, engulfed in flames while helplessly beating on box-blocked doorways. To work there was to truly feel expendable, utterly worthless and really just downright sub-human. The partners should all be ashamed of themselves.[/quote][/quote]