What REALLY grinds your gears?

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by JoeRedskin

People who have never written a legal brief, conducted a deposition, prepped a a witness for testimony, argued a motion in open court or made an opening statement to a jury telling me how the law works.

You're right. I've only been doing it for 20 years - I must be wrong.

I thought you might feel that way.

[JoeRedskin]

Originally Posted by Lotus

I thought you might feel that way.

To be clear, it wasn't just a reference to the posts on WP (Though, admittedly, the one in the Banks thread was the catalyst of my frustration). I had clients and outside engineers telling me all day yesterday that I didn't know how the law works and that (to quote one of them) "Just b/c that's what the statute says, that's not what the law means." Oh, silly me relying on defined terms and stuff.

Yes. Everyone else knows my job better than me. Hey, I have a PC at home, how about I tell you how to program that mainframe? or, since I have plumbing in my house, let me tell you the engineering flaws in that $50K Stormwater Managment Pool that you designed for the multimillion dollar road widening project?

Just a little respect for each other's professionalism would be nice.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by JoeRedskin

To be clear, it wasn't just a reference to the posts on WP (Though, admittedly, the one in the Banks thread was the catalyst of my frustration). I had clients and outside engineers telling me all day yesterday that I didn't know how the law works and that (to quote one of them) "Just b/c that's what the statute says, that's not what the law means." Oh, silly me relying on defined terms and stuff.

Yes. Everyone else knows my job better than me. Hey, I have a PC at home, how about I tell you how to program that mainframe? or, since I have plumbing in my house, let me tell you the engineering flaws in that $50K Stormwater Managment Pool that you designed for the multimillion dollar road widening project?

Just a little respect for each other's professionalism would be nice.

I think everyone has to deal with this sort of thing one way or the other, and it's definitely frustrating. I love it when some bum sitting at home sucking off the WC system thinks he knows how my job works, or better yet knows WC law better than I do.

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by JoeRedskin

To be clear, it wasn't just a reference to the posts on WP (Though, admittedly, the one in the Banks thread was the catalyst of my frustration). I had clients and outside engineers telling me all day yesterday that I didn't know how the law works and that (to quote one of them) "Just b/c that's what the statute says, that's not what the law means." Oh, silly me relying on defined terms and stuff.

Yes. Everyone else knows my job better than me. Hey, I have a PC at home, how about I tell you how to program that mainframe? or, since I have plumbing in my house, let me tell you the engineering flaws in that $50K Stormwater Managment Pool that you designed for the multimillion dollar road widening project?

Just a little respect for each other's professionalism would be nice.

There you go again, hiding behind actual statutes to defend yourself from the importance of just making things up without evidence.

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by JoeRedskin

To be clear, it wasn't just a reference to the posts on WP (Though, admittedly, the one in the Banks thread was the catalyst of my frustration). I had clients and outside engineers telling me all day yesterday that I didn't know how the law works and that (to quote one of them) "Just b/c that's what the statute says, that's not what the law means." Oh, silly me relying on defined terms and stuff.

Yes. Everyone else knows my job better than me. Hey, I have a PC at home, how about I tell you how to program that mainframe? or, since I have plumbing in my house, let me tell you the engineering flaws in that $50K Stormwater Managment Pool that you designed for the multimillion dollar road widening project?

Just a little respect for each other's professionalism would be nice.

Local nutjob who has lost over 20 election bids with the slogan "Fight Mafia Lawyer Scum". These stickers are slapped all over York County, PA. He actually enrolled in a few computer classes at my school when I was in college and I talked to him a few times.

He believes that all lawyers and law enforcement are run by the mafia since they seized his family fruit stand in 1982. He's switched political parties a few times and actually manages a few hundred protest votes every election. He always makes it on the ballot for something.

He entertains me more than grinds my gears, but I figured posting that picture would grind JoeRedskin's gears so I shared it.

[JoeRedskin]

Originally Posted by Monkeydad

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He entertains me more than grinds my gears, but I figured posting that picture would grind JoeRedskin's gears so I shared it.

lol ... No, nutjob's who are clueless merely amuse me. The gear grinding comes when other professionals seem to think that special training is needed to do their job well but that watching a couple episodes of Law & Order qualifies them to pronounce authoritatively upon the simplicity of mine.

[Monksdown]

Originally Posted by JoeRedskin

lol ... No, nutjob's who are clueless merely amuse me. The gear grinding comes when other professionals seem to think that special training is needed to do their job well but that watching a couple episodes of Law & Order qualifies them to pronounce authoritatively upon the simplicity of mine.

please keep your qualified murmerings to a minimum Your Honorable Sir Barrister.....esq.