The Work Thread

Copy and paste, then edit to make it more applicable. Do not forget the editing part. As you do this repeatedly, you will hone the document until you need to edit it less and less. My eviction practice runs really smoothly after several years of doing this with my complaints.

Charge full time for your efforts.

Derp

@Rinel said in The Work Thread:

Copy-paste the entire original memo and slap on an introductory paragraph explaining why the standard of review is de novo?

Just add the original as an exhibit to the new one!

Rinel

@Derp said in The Work Thread:

@Rinel said in The Work Thread:

Copy-paste the entire original memo and slap on an introductory paragraph explaining why the standard of review is de novo?

Just add the original as an exhibit to the new one!

If I were in federal court, I'd be doing exactly that. I would have a two page writ application with a bunch of footnotes to the record.

I'm in state court. I don't think they're going to read the record.

ETA: @Ganymede This is habeas work, so it's really too individualized for me to have any standard forms. The few things that are common to the point of being standard (e.g. Strickland, Cronic, Lafler, Frye) are familiar enough to me that it's faster for me to just write how they relate to the facts anew in each case.

Ganymede

@Rinel

I concur. Habeas work does require an individualized approach.

WildBaboons

silverfox

This next week is Parent Teacher Conferences. It means that I'll be at school from 7am - 8pm tomorrow, with an hour commute. Then on Wednesday I'll be at school from 7am - 6pm.

I'm sure it'll be fine, but damn, I always get itchy before conferences.

Tinuviel

@silverfox said in The Work Thread:

I always get itchy before conferences.

They're always my favourite. I always get to play "which teenager has lied to their parents."

RightMeow

@silverfox said in The Work Thread:

I'm sure it'll be fine, but damn, I always get itchy before conferences.

If you work in an elementary school/middle school. It's lice. It's always lice.

Auspice

I don't wanna do a presentation on Monday

Lemon Fox

@Auspice ikr

Auspice

Roughly half of my documentation work is getting its live trial this month. It's being used in our scrimmage (live testing of the software) and getting feedback from the users.

Yesterday, an executive went through it for the first time. Now, the users have been in workshops. The software is just a newer, better-er version of what they do daily. But... executive being executive, his feedback was:
'I'm confused. I want step-by-step instructions for everything.'

.......and he meant everything.....

So I got my boss panicking at me that what I've spent months on wasn't good enough. And it was just.......... crushing. Like, I was upset, yes, because it was sort of a 'what the hell, man? trust your people????' but it also hit hard because of all the work and getting chewed out and....

But it improved later in the day when we were in a meeting with my boss and with aforementioned exec when the rest of the tech team had my back. They all were on the same page with me: the users have been in these workshops, the material should be at the level the users need, and part of this exercise is to find out if they need more detail.

But today was even... better in that front because this guy kept pressuring that he wants even our instructions on the 'week's work' to be more prescriptive. Like to the level of 'how to login to the tool.' Aka: 'Giving them the link and their username isn't enough' was the feedback.

on the upside, I guess I'm getting practice for some of what I'll likely deal with once I get into teaching.
And I do feel a lot better that my team is on my side. Like, a lot better. They like my work. They think it's solid.

Lisse24

We're hiring a new position at work and so we decided to list out all our responsibilities so we could figure out what we wanted to shift around.

What I got out of this? Holy crap, I have a lot of hats. No wonder I'm always feeling as if I have no bandwidth.

Aria

I just got my third high-five in 24 hours from one of my area's TLs today about the presentation that I gave in yesterday's staff meeting.

Apparently, the team liked it so much that they're forwarding the links, video, and documentation out to our sister teams in our subdivision for use with all the future cohorts we're training.

I spent 12 years as an executive assistant, doing work that isn't all that different than what I do now....

Being recognized and congratulated for it feels weird. Definitely weird.

Alamias

I just got out of a meeting where the new interim department head said that he is changing the annual merit increase policy to only give raises to the top 10-20 percent, 60 percent will get nothing, and the bottom 10% will be possibly put on a PIP and/or fired.

Wow, that is a great way to build morale.