Daily Diary

On a whinge and a prayer

Posted 8/03/2007 by The Daily Diary

In the days when every associate whinge is instantly chronicled in discussion boards, interactive blogs and hyperactive podcasts, it can be hard to unearth a genuinely fresh lawyer moan of real quality.

Like avid record collectors who bemoan iTunes, connoisseurs of the solicitor sulk fret over how easy it has become to find documented tales of breast-beating unfairness, particularly ones that score on the crucial punch-line pay-off.

As such, The Diary would once again applaud the assistant who suggested his City firm change the name of its associates' talking shop to the Mushroom Forum, as “they keep us in the dark and feed us bullshit”.

So The Diary was enthused recently to hear a new tale of woe from a firm that felt its assistants should have to buy their own BlackBerrys. Given that many partners use the gadget to ensure that the billing-monkeys are plugged into the mothership at all times, this went down like a ton of bricks made of sewage.

As one assistant pithily put it: “It’s like asking the dog to pay for the f***ing chain.”

Keep ‘em coming.

"Roll over boy, now beg...and REDRAFT!!"