(NOT ALL) treat people who work with you and are not lawyers like they are gum on the bottom of your shoes? Do you really believe that just because you went to law school, you are better than everyone else? (I know this sounds mean, but some of you really tick me off with your noses stuck up in the air) The support you get from the rest of us, it seems to me, should be very important to you. Would you like to do all of the research, clerical work, errands etc. by yourself?
2006-09-15 19:21:08 · 5 answers · asked by Cinner 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Hey silly would you like that with cream or arsenic? LOL!
Chadman-I'm so glad you're back, I've missed you!
2006-09-15 19:27:38 · update #1
That phenomenon is more common in big law firms. That's why the staff at big firms gets paid more; because it's a given they'll have to put up with more grief from some associate whose first job was at a six-figure salary.
Some folks are attracted to law because they are jerks, and those folks are more likely to want to go into a big firm, because that's where the most money and prestige lies. Not all big firm lawyers are that way, but some are.
2006-09-16 04:56:21 · answer #1 · answered by y_nevin 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many people with doctorates do this, including most physicians, as well as a large percentage of big business owners and high level managers, not to mention many celebrities. It's part of having a large ego, and making lots of money, and living in a society where there is a strong caste division between earners and workers. I'm not saying it's a good thing, just that it's not limited to lawyers.
Then there is a phenomenon limited to lawyers, high-level accountant and brokers, where certain legal or financial concepts are so obvious to them, that they get frustrated having to repeatedly explain those concepts to others, day after day after day.
From a legal perspective, it is very frustrating to listen to people constantly saying blatantly incorrect things about the law, badly misquoting and misinterpreting things, and knowing that you have an ethical duty to correct those misunderstandings in a large percentage of the situations. It gets frustrating having to tell people the same basic simple concepts of critical thinking that they should have learned in grade school.
For a comparison, imaging if your job was to keep the kitchen clean. And every day, the people around you kept tracking mud in, throwing garbage around, and generally not even bothering to pay attention to how much extra work they were creating for you. Day after day after day after day of this. It gets frustrating. So much so, that you occasionally take it out on the people who don't deserve it, just because it was the straw the broke the back.
Again, I'm not saying rudeness is ever justified. Just common and understandable. And in any profession with so much personal stress, and so much personal workload, having to do more because the people around you didn't listen the first three times you explained something simple -- it gets frustrating.
2006-09-16 12:18:54 · answer #2 · answered by coragryph 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I've heard some doctors act the same, treat nurses and other staff like dirt. Plain arrogance I suppose.
2006-09-16 02:23:41 · answer #3 · answered by larry n 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well we are like that because we are under so much pressure- if we lose a case, all the pressure is on us. As for that clerical bs, any monkey could do that. Now get me a coffee.
2006-09-16 02:23:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Coming from a Bush lover I love it
2006-09-16 02:25:21 · answer #5 · answered by chadman 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋