The entry from Sunday:
A few readers alerted me to some recent problems with the Blogger service that hosts this page. There was apparently a service interruption earlier this week. This is why computers will never replace associates. Computers break down. But associates can work non-stop provided the punishment is set high enough for those who disappoint. Computers can't be punished. There are no incentive programs I can devise to make my Internet connection faster or my hard drive less likely to crash. But tell an associate he won't make partner unless he stays in the office for the next 96 hours working on a brief, and he'll do it. Every time. Or we'll fire him and find someone willing to make the necessary sacrifices. Computers don't learn their lessons either. My associates know the punishment for mistakes and they don't repeat past ones. Computers keep crashing, with no worry about the consequences. Devise a computer that can hear me screaming, and quiver in fear -- then maybe I'll hire him. Until then, I'll stick with people.
Hahaha wherever this Anonymous Firm is (have a feeling it's somewhere in SoCal), I definitely don't want to work there.
2 comments:
i post this to you from the BU School of Law. and man let me tell you this place is cooooold. Prof Z gave me this "you're an idiot" look when I said I was going to Boston...and now as I cant feel my face.....I'm giving that look to myself.
Anonymous lawyer is a complete hoax. It's written by a former Harvard Law student...he's getting a book deal out of it. He made up everything. You should read the archives, those are a little bit more believeable...and slightly more entertaining.
btw, there is NOTHING wrong with BU except that there's this blasted blizzard going through the North East. Oh well, why else be in Boston if you can't experience the New England winter.
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