@Rinel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I also do, for as new an attorney as I am, very good work. So I am given particular allowances by my bosses, who happen to be my friends, who founded our firm when we all said to hell with the public defender office. I come in three times a week for half days and telecommute the rest of the time. Nobody else has that luxury. So given that I spend so much time at home already...
Do you win cases? If the answer is "yes," then I really don't give a fuck what others think about the accommodations you get.
Do you bill sensibly and properly? If the answer is "yes," then I really don't give two fucks what others think about the accommodations you get.
Do you need these reasonable accommodations to function, plus some extra time to deal with shit outside your control that will affect your ability to succeed? If the answer is "yes," then I really don't give three fucks what others think about the accommodations you get.
We are in a results-driven profession. We are expected to win. As a shareholder, it is my job to get the best and the brightest to win. And if that means I have to let you wear a headband with a horn sticking out the front, so be it.
Client: Why does she look like a unicorn?
Me: Would you care if she won your case?
Client: No.
Me: Then meet your new attorney, Twilight Sparkle, and watch her do her thing.
What you have isn't a luxury; it is a reasonable accommodation arguably mandated by the ADA. And as a result of that accommodation, your firm has the rough equivalent of a nuclear fucking weapon. My new associate may not be terribly savvy with the Civil Rules, but she eats witnesses alive on the stand while I gleefully sit in the first chair.