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Partner screamed at me for cc'ing him on an email. I'm tired of this shit.

Two weeks ago, a nerdy litigation partner asked me to work o...
Mind-boggling Point
  07/20/18
Yeah, I'm sure the partner is the nerdy one given that you t...
cracking buck-toothed stead
  07/20/18
Eat a bag of dicks. (Was that short enough for you?)
Mind-boggling Point
  07/20/18
(loose cannon)
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Look who's here, the loser of losers.
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  07/21/18
what is wrong with you?
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Are you serious? Spent 7 years in a top ten big law firm an...
Deep Brilliant Sex Offender
  07/20/18
OP is not flame. I didn't make it seven months at my firm be...
angry scourge upon the earth area
  07/21/18
apart from law being generally TTT, it must suck working for...
Mustard Galvanic New Version Location
  07/20/18
If your boss is in DC I’ll punch him for you.
Aromatic library son of senegal
  07/20/18
Man is a writer floating an idea.
Fighting crackhouse wrinkle
  07/20/18
This is TLS copypasta
Passionate parlor fanboi
  07/20/18
I am the Picasso of copypasta
Mind-boggling Point
  07/20/18
u know this used to be a law bort
Pale hairy legs
  07/20/18
2008 is not coming back
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Orange forum
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Pale hairy legs
  07/22/18
Not sure if this is flame, but "very much in the hunt f...
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contagious indirect expression tank
  07/21/18
(Sherlock Holmes)
Confused flushed psychic
  07/21/18
He is very much in the hunt if he continues billing 2250+ ea...
angry scourge upon the earth area
  07/21/18
smoke some more crystal meth
Saffron 180 mother
  07/21/18
http://bitterempire.com/cc-this-bitch/
henna messiness
  07/21/18
Wtf? Did they just steal from us?
chartreuse stock car
  07/21/18
This really isn't written in an xo style. Seems fraud
razzle international law enforcement agency ape
  07/21/18
Why would a litigation partner send a client a term sheet?
Thriller station
  07/21/18
have you found any secrets to smoking weed in a red roof inn...
Embarrassed to the bone church telephone
  07/21/18
How do you put someone else's name in the "from" l...
Splenetic copper filthpig pisswyrm
  07/21/18
(Guy about to get shitcanned for inadequate Outlook skills)
Passionate parlor fanboi
  07/21/18
Its a permissions thing. Its a dropdown menu feature if you ...
Buff fortuitous meteor box office
  07/21/18
Ok, got it, thanks. Yeah, my secretary has access to my inb...
Splenetic copper filthpig pisswyrm
  07/21/18
This was my first thought, too.
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this is at least the third time this screed has been posted ...
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It’s about ten years old and has been posted more than 20 ti...
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180 moniker
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  07/21/18
you posted this here already http://law.xoxohth.com/threa...
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  07/21/18
and here http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2246...
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BIGLAW needs Slack.
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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:07 PM
Author: Mind-boggling Point

Two weeks ago, a nerdy litigation partner asked me to work on a private equity investment for one of his clients. Simple enough, right? I’m a fifth-year associate and regarded as a competent transactional attorney. I’m not the class rock star, but I’ve been told I’m “very much in the hunt for partnership.”

Sounds exciting, but being in the hunt actually makes your life worse because you have to care what partners think of you. In other words, you have to make partners like you. And if they don’t? Well, you have to obsess over the fact they don’t like you and then do everything in your power to change their minds. Even when they’re dicks. Even when they scream at you for “CC-ing” them on an email rather than including them in the “From” line. That’s right, Nerdy Litigation partner yelled at me like I was his prison bitch because I didn’t include his name in the goddamn “From” line.

“This is reckless and thoughtless behavior!” he said, his tiny jaw twitching with petulance.

Here are the facts: Last Wednesday, I sent a draft term sheet to the client and CC-ed Nerdy Litigation Partner. It’s the kind of thing I do twenty times a day. I didn’t even think twice about it. Call me crazy, but that’s how I roll. Ten minutes later, NLP was in my office yelling.

“You don’t CC me. Understand?!”

“I’m sorry,” I said. I know, I’m a pussy. But I’m in the hunt. What am I supposed to do, ruin my career? But NLP didn’t give a rat’s ass about my apology.

“Every single piece of correspondence that goes to this client comes from me. Got it?! ”

I just looked at him. My heart was thumping. If we were in high school, I would have already thrown my first punch.

“I’m not sure I understand,” I said, with an deferential faux confusion associates in the hunt employ when asshole partners are screaming at them for no reason.

“The client needs to know that I’m integrally involved in this transaction and not just overseeing some junior associate’s work product. Understand now, or was that too abstract for you?! ”

I didn’t respond. I just stared at him, until he walked out.

Here’s the worst part: NLP is actually kind of important and now he hates me. He told an associate friend of mine the next day that I was a “loose cannon.”

A loose fucking cannon?! Really?! Because of a stupid CC! Really?! Just thinking about this makes me insane! I’ve worked my ass off for five years, and this petty son of a bitch is going to compromise—or flat out ruin—my chance at partner over this!?

If I didn’t have a fat student loan tab, I would have kicked his chubby ass right then and there. (Yes, I’m exaggerating. A little. And yes, I’m angry as hell and completely irrational. You would be too, if you were in the hunt and some d-bag called you out for something so petty.)

It’s times like these that I’m really glad I went to a top-five school, made law review and billed 2100 hours a year for the past five years. Now I suppose that the only good news about no longer being in the hunt is that I don’t have to care what assholes like NLP think of me anymore. So in a way, this whole Cc debacle was a victory.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469024)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:13 PM
Author: cracking buck-toothed stead

Yeah, I'm sure the partner is the nerdy one given that you took the time to write all of this shit out.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469053)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:15 PM
Author: Mind-boggling Point

Eat a bag of dicks.

(Was that short enough for you?)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469060)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:18 PM
Author: cracking buck-toothed stead

(loose cannon)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469068)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:19 PM
Author: Mustard Galvanic New Version Location



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469070)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:20 PM
Author: Aromatic library son of senegal



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469074)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:21 PM
Author: Ebony swashbuckling digit ratio cuckold



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469080)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:51 PM
Author: arousing green antidepressant drug field



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469155)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 2:26 AM
Author: carmine spectacular nursing home persian

Look who's here, the loser of losers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469549)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 5:08 AM
Author: vigorous idiot

what is wrong with you?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469677)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 12:26 AM
Author: Transparent immigrant



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469264)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 12:31 AM
Author: Bisexual Rigor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469295)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 12:35 AM
Author: Fragrant trump supporter



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469305)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 2:14 AM
Author: bull headed amethyst deer antler wagecucks



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469531)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 2:16 AM
Author: vigorous idiot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469534)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 3:17 AM
Author: nofapping cuckoldry principal's office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469614)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 8:15 AM
Author: Lime Fantasy-prone Tattoo Garrison



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469852)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:01 AM
Author: startled jewess theater stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469963)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 11:33 AM
Author: beady-eyed azn



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36470551)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:19 PM
Author: costumed dilemma roast beef



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36471006)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 8:15 AM
Author: Lime Fantasy-prone Tattoo Garrison



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469851)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:12 PM
Author: Deep Brilliant Sex Offender

Are you serious? Spent 7 years in a top ten big law firm and never had anything like this happen. Most mad a partner ever got was when I told a client she was on vacation when she was working remotely.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469044)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 12:29 PM
Author: angry scourge upon the earth area

OP is not flame. I didn't make it seven months at my firm before hearing multiple times about the importance of properly ordering names on the to line of emails by seniority.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36470787)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:17 PM
Author: Mustard Galvanic New Version Location

apart from law being generally TTT, it must suck working for those who were unliked dweebs in HS

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469067)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:19 PM
Author: Aromatic library son of senegal

If your boss is in DC I’ll punch him for you.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469073)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:24 PM
Author: Fighting crackhouse wrinkle

Man is a writer floating an idea.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469094)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:29 PM
Author: Passionate parlor fanboi

This is TLS copypasta

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469106)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:33 PM
Author: Mind-boggling Point

I am the Picasso of copypasta

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469117)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:47 PM
Author: Pale hairy legs

u know this used to be a law bort

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469145)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 2:10 AM
Author: Blue well-lubricated lodge

2008 is not coming back

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469524)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 11:12 AM
Author: Orange forum



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36470468)



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Date: July 22nd, 2018 1:14 AM
Author: Pale hairy legs



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36473661)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 12:24 AM
Author: big-titted sick trailer park

Not sure if this is flame, but "very much in the hunt for partnership" sounds like a line of horseshit that they tell people that they aren't planning to make partners so that they'll consent to being worked to death.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469257)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 8:57 AM
Author: milky dashing site



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469950)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:47 AM
Author: contagious indirect expression tank



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36470104)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 11:28 AM
Author: Confused flushed psychic

(Sherlock Holmes)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36470528)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 12:31 PM
Author: angry scourge upon the earth area

He is very much in the hunt if he continues billing 2250+ each of the next five years and brings in his own clients and the economy doesn't tank and he doesn't get one wrong moved.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36470798)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 12:34 AM
Author: Saffron 180 mother

smoke some more crystal meth

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469302)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 2:25 AM
Author: henna messiness

http://bitterempire.com/cc-this-bitch/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469547)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 12:12 PM
Author: chartreuse stock car

Wtf? Did they just steal from us?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36470701)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 3:20 AM
Author: razzle international law enforcement agency ape

This really isn't written in an xo style. Seems fraud

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469618)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 8:14 AM
Author: Thriller station

Why would a litigation partner send a client a term sheet?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469848)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:00 AM
Author: Embarrassed to the bone church telephone

have you found any secrets to smoking weed in a red roof inn?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469961)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 10:13 AM
Author: Splenetic copper filthpig pisswyrm

How do you put someone else's name in the "from" line of an email?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36470226)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 10:19 AM
Author: Passionate parlor fanboi

(Guy about to get shitcanned for inadequate Outlook skills)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36470255)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 11:31 AM
Author: Buff fortuitous meteor box office

Its a permissions thing. Its a dropdown menu feature if you have permission to access his inbox.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36470542)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:02 PM
Author: Splenetic copper filthpig pisswyrm

Ok, got it, thanks. Yeah, my secretary has access to my inbox and occasionally I'll ask her to send an email or meeting invite for me. The "from" line will have my name but the email header also says something like "sent from <Hombre's Secretary> on behalf of Hombre 3000."

But I've never given any associates who work for me such access and I'd never expect them to do that when emailing a client. Pretty sure I've never seen a partner at my firm do that, but who knows.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36470941)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 12:04 PM
Author: misanthropic hospital

This was my first thought, too.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36470654)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 3:11 PM
Author: Spruce plaza preventive strike



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36471451)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 12:16 PM
Author: Burgundy curious space toaster

this is at least the third time this screed has been posted here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36470721)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:15 PM
Author: Plum circlehead marketing idea

It’s about ten years old and has been posted more than 20 times.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36470982)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:31 PM
Author: Snowy excitant athletic conference ceo

180 moniker

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36471032)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 7:48 PM
Author: Adulterous boistinker mad-dog skullcap

you posted this here already

http://law.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3630362&mc=43&forum_id=2&PHPSESSID=82d9597152b8e687a6af6d06cbd65e87#33426277

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36472544)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 7:51 PM
Author: Adulterous boistinker mad-dog skullcap

and here

http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2246963&mc=57&forum_id=2&PHPSESSID=4a5f014e554b8cad58a06cf0ac9f1e84#23131737

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36472550)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 7:51 PM
Author: twinkling set sound barrier

BIGLAW needs Slack.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36472551)