Email to HR was sent and they responded that I need not be freaked out, except you know, more professional.

Mac will be starting the outpatient school on Friday, provided he is discharged today or tomorrow. Unfortunately it is only 9 - 3:30 and no options for before or after care, so that is something to work out.

When I worked at Orrick, the managing partner for the Palo Alto office signed an exclusive six month deal with a headhunter without consulting anybody else, including our head of Attorney Recruiting (my boss).

Just insanely stupid and arrogant. And it wound up costing them a six figure fee to said head hunter when they brought in an ex-Judge as a partner with guaranteed partner draw over a million. (Mind, this deal had nothing to do with the head hunter but because of the contract they had to pay out anyway.)

And to think I used to wonder where the ideas in Dilbert came from.

They'll be in a pickle!

Heh, indeed.

(For a sense of scale, the contract involves more than 50 million s.f. of real estate. Our own account team is more than 700 people. If it's bad - which to be clear, is not yet known - then it could be really, really bad.)

As I keep telling people, "I don't have to make this stuff up".

Right, Toddson? Unbelieveable. If only because I can't imagine not wanting to kick something that big further up the food chain out of pure cowardice.

When I took my Business Law course, we learned about what can happen if an employee signs a contract but doesn't have the authority to do so.

I don't remember anything on that subject (except sometimes the contract can be voided. Maybe).

But hey, I still remember that contracts for illegal activity are unenforceable.

Oh, no -- no London! I am so sad for you!

I'm pretty sure that wasn't a romance novel.

Sure it is — it's really Stephen King's long-lost romance novel "When Pennywise Got His Groove Back."

Unfortunately it is only 9 - 3:30 and no options for before or after care, so that is something to work out.

That is so ridiculous! I feel sort of bad (both ways) for making this comparison, but the day program my father goes to has hours like this, so he gets home hours before my mother does. It would be fine if other people didn't have, you know, jobs!

One of my other favorite shenanigans from working at Orrick:

A guy there was up for partner. His dad worked for the NSA. The guy used an NSA codebreaker program he got from his dad to go through the firm's document system and read individual attorney reviews of his work. (The individual reviews are raw comments and are definitely NOT politic or open for viewing. They get boiled down into a very polite, mildly worded version of the actual review before it is delivered.)

He was caught because - duh! - having the password doesn't mean you can't see who was opening the documents in the system.

Did they fire him? Nope. He made partner.

He's no longer at Orrick. Ken Aboud, you total bastard.