The Work Thread
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New lawyer peeve:
Judges who do not apply the same standards to pro se litigants as they do to attorneys regarding the rules of procedure.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@Ganymede said in The Work Thread:
New lawyer peeve:
Judges who do not apply the same standards to pro se litigants as they do to attorneys regarding the rules of procedure.
I'll see your peeve and raise you:
Federal Courts that apply different (stricter) standards to pro se litigants than they do to attorneys regarding the rules of procedure.
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
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@Derp said in The Work Thread:
Federal Courts that apply different (stricter) standards to pro se litigants than they do to attorneys regarding the rules of procedure.
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@Ganymede said in The Work Thread:
New lawyer peeve:
Judges who do not apply the same standards to pro se litigants as they do to attorneys regarding the rules of procedure.
I can get behind this a little bit. Legal procedures have become arcane and byzantine to the level of a religion over years of traditions and formalities have built on top of themselves. I mean, who says Oyez anymore other than in the US Supreme Court? Going "Alright, you haven't had three years of law school to train you on how to do things, so we will let some stuff slide. I mean you're going to lose anyways, because only an idiot does things pro se."
Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
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@Ominous said in The Work Thread:
"Alright, you haven't had three years of law school to train you on how to do things, so we will let some stuff slide. I mean you're going to lose anyways, because only an idiot does things pro se."
Another way to look at it:
"Already, so you've paid out the ass to take three years of law school to learn about the rules of this game, but I will let this mouth-breather over here making excuses about why they cannot get a lawyer despite having a three-income household making over $150,000 get away with not filing a responsive pleading or responses to your discovery requests after four months despite clear fucking instructions in the summons and the discovery requests because fuck you and your client who mortgaged their home to afford competent counsel."
The old adage of "someone who represents themselves in court has a fool for a client" applies, as does "only an idiot tries to perform surgery on themselves."
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I have the same problem with wealthy blowhards. I got these families in Montecito with their gated homes who are refusing service. Sucks to be them, though, as I know where they work and California law allows you to serve a workplace as substituted service in lieu of personal service. So now the workplace will hopefully be gossiping about how rich douchebag is getting fined by the County.
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Haha I got promoted. Apparently that means random people email me asking if I need VR equipment for home...
Why yes please. I love my new role.
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@JinShei said in The Work Thread:
Haha I got promoted. Apparently that means random people email me asking if I need VR equipment for home...
Why yes please. I love my new role.
Wait, what do you do? I want free VR equipment!
Racism isn't Tinkerbell. It doesn't need you to believe in it for it to exist.
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If you've never tried to talk a four year old into complying with your requests over zoom, you are missing out.
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I may be changing jobs again. I hoped that the schedule change would be enough to take significant stress off of the family, but it's still not enough to deal with the realities of distance schooling and my district's inflexibility that is driving us crazy along with the primary level teachers I am certain.
I'm so tired. I'm trying to be a good mom, I'm trying to safeguard my kids' education, I'm trying to not drop complete out of the workforce and lose the meager gains I've been able to make in the last 7 years after being a stay at home parent for so long.
But you know, I'm just fucked. Fuck 2020. Fuck fucking covid.
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On the upside I totally rocked an interview today for the position I wanted before I got my bank job, and the hours are perfect for what i need.
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My birthday was Monday. For this birthday I took a whole week off of work paid. This may be the best gift I've given myself.
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@Derp Funny thing. I teach online and we'll be using VR but... this equipment won't speak to ours at all. So... just yay?
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We had historic wildfires that was quite close to my work and home, blanketing everything in smoke and getting near enough where my job had to start thinking of possible evacuation plans, but also were it lead to staff calls off.
Then we got a historic for the time of year winter storm that dumped almost a foot of snow on us. It helped the fires - but lead to people who evacuated having to worry about not having winterized homes and lead to more calls off, including some people ended up in the ditch on the way to work. They were fine though.
At that same time we learned that some of nursing management were covid positive and some had to quarantine due to being offices with then and the like.
So on Monday between covid, storms and fires only about 30% of nursing staff made it in the morning. I was one of that 30%. We ran our asses off, but made it through and the patient's were okay and later in the day more people did make it in.
I partly made it in cause a friend with a truck was driving me back an forth to work in the snow and even got us a hotel one night when the storm was really coming and I had less than 6 hours between shifts. He was like fuck, hotel room, a few blocks away. I am very grateful for him.
I was worked some 18 hour shifts in that all and I am quite sore!
But I never felt like stronger and less anxious and I feel about being there for the fight of 2020 and making it in for our patients. I plant to keep making it in while I can.
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Please stop badgering me to partake in the office charity drive.
It's not my responsibility to help the company reach this year's super specific goal to a charity that only spends about 12% of its donation intake on actually helping people, when all this really is is a front for driving down the amount of tax the company has to pay.
Delete the Hog Pit. It'll be fun.
I really don't understand He-Man -
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We are going remote and it is destroying my soul.
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I need luck. All the luck. Billions of luck.
Interviewed for a job this week and it'd be really, really good. It'd be technical writing for a renewable energy company (they build wind farms but they also empower the landowners vs. retaining control/ownership/most of the money like most of the companies building them rn) with a team of writers who are all big geeks (one of the questions in my interview yesterday was 'Who is your favorite fantasy author?' and we went off talking books for a good ten minutes).
The bossman seems to honestly, truly care about the well-being of his team and strikes me as someone I'd really want to work for.
I mean, yes, I need a job -- any job -- but this one would be amazing. They're considering 3 people and have 1, MAYBE 2 spots. So my chances are pretty good, but any well-wishes, prayers, sacrifices to the blood god are welcome.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@Auspice Sending a nice fruit basket to Khorne on your behalf.
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I got the job.
But.
I got the 2nd slot and (due to budget) cannot start until January.
So it's a good news / bad news. Yay I got a job I really wanted! Boo I have to strugglebus another 2 months.
But I can do it. Knowing there's a light at the end of the tunnel makes it much easier.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
