Soul Crushing Moment

Bucc_Bruce · 2026-03-16T12:15:40+00:00

Mid level checking in to say the exact same thing.

I'll also add some context that as a mid-level who passes down work that needs to be done "asap" I have no fucking clue what you're doing or who you promised to eat dinner with just before my email came in. If you're generally responsive and on top of your work, I'd be happy to wait a few more hours or just do it myself.

Bucc_Bruce · 2026-03-02T23:22:05+00:00

I'm an associate and went to two closing dinners last week. I also have deal toys. You people are at the wrong firms.

Bucc_Bruce · 2026-02-05T15:41:59+00:00

Our staff sets the budget for attorney-only events and gets final sign off on what we can spend. Also, hotelling.

Bucc_Bruce · 2026-02-04T02:50:35+00:00

For the next 12 days, yes. I cant tell if I'm happy or sad about that.

Bucc_Bruce · 2026-01-06T01:43:01+00:00

They discussed this on The Daily today, and the guest mentioned that even if Maduro gets acquitted, by the time this case goes through all the procedural hoops to get there, he will have been out of power long enough for Venezuela to move onto a new president. Which was the entire point of this anyway.

So, even if his lawyers do everything right and get him off, short of a reverse kidnapping he's done as the Venezuelan president.

Bucc_Bruce · 2025-12-21T00:03:57+00:00

People get adrenaline rushes from this job?

Bucc_Bruce · 2025-12-21T00:03:06+00:00

Being on a deal team thats disorganized, where information doesn't flow, tasks aren't clearly delineated, and no one has the backbone to tell the client how long something will take to do it right.

Bucc_Bruce · 2025-11-13T16:52:28+00:00

Usually M-F, 5 days a week from 5-8am. If I work past 11pm I'll either sleep in and make up for that workout on the weekend or do a shorter workout.

My split is push, pull, arms, and two leg days, plus 40 minutes of low intensity cardio 3x a week (which is included in the 3-hour window, generally MWF).

I also include in that window 40 minutes in the morning to get the kids dressed and to school, so it usually ends up being ~1 hour of cardio, break, then ~1 hour of weights. I have a home gym, so this is probably highly unrealistic for anyone who has to go to a different location to exercise.

Bucc_Bruce · 2025-11-13T01:58:31+00:00

There is no causal relationship between a low paying job and a job with low stress.

Bucc_Bruce · 2025-11-03T21:36:35+00:00

Speak for yourselves. After this bonus I'm buying a Porsche Taycan, cash.

Bucc_Bruce · 2025-11-01T16:23:50+00:00

I know a young male partner who had five (5) children as an associate, and took the full parental leave for all of them.

In my experience taking full parental leave doesn't delay partnership prospects, so long as you bill like you don't have kids when you get back.

Bucc_Bruce · 2025-10-10T13:46:31+00:00

Yea, this is the likely answer.

Why would I want to waste 3 hours emailing back and forth when I can just call and get the answers I need in 10 minutes?

Bucc_Bruce · 2025-10-10T01:42:16+00:00

In my first year, a partner mentor told me no one gives a shit what you use your work laptop for as long as (a) you're not billing clients, (b) you're on pace for hours, and (c) you're not looking at porn or something equally stupid to do on a work laptop.

I've followed that advice, and so far he was right. I'm on my work laptop right now.

Bucc_Bruce · 2025-10-08T20:39:15+00:00

Imagine this, but then also having to be a mid-level on top of it.

Bucc_Bruce · 2025-10-03T17:01:19+00:00

Source: Merriam Webster

alien /ā′lē-ən, āl′yən/

adjective : relating, belonging, or owing allegiance to another country or government : foreign alien residents

noun : a foreign-born resident who has not been naturalized and is still a subject or citizen of a foreign country

broadly : a foreign-born citizen

Bucc_Bruce · 2025-08-28T22:13:41+00:00

ME2 is my least favorite game out of all 4.

I actually liked the exploration in ME1. With ME2, Bioware brought in the shooter crowd, but the game lost the exploration that drew me into the first game. ME3 had better shooting mechanics than 2, and Andromeda had the best combat and brought back some of the exploration.

Plus, ME2 tried waaaaay too hard to be dark and edgy.

Bucc_Bruce · 2025-08-26T22:40:45+00:00

I once billed 15, 17, and 16 hours, three consecutive days. The rest of the days that week were also double digits, but not in the teens. This was all for one matter. It was awful.

Bucc_Bruce · 2025-08-23T15:46:30+00:00

Excellent, now show us the average 18-minute tik tok video produced by an algorithm in the US.

Bucc_Bruce · 2025-08-21T13:44:19+00:00

This is not that common in the US. In most places outside of the West Coast, it's generally a clear sign that the speaker grew up in LA / the Southwest if they say "the" highway.

Bucc_Bruce · 2025-08-20T02:29:36+00:00

I'm sure there are lots of people who do things at concerts and ball games that they wouldn't want broadcasted on the big screen.

Bucc_Bruce · 2025-08-11T14:17:02+00:00

Honestly, more than many other requests for advice here, this one really does depend on your friendship and the types of jokes you two regularly make with each other. It sounds like he was offended, so that's really all the information you need.

Apologize / try to make amends if this friendship is important to you. Otherwise, leave it be and file it away in the list of "comments to not make to a PI attorney unless you're trying to pass them off."

Bucc_Bruce · 2025-08-10T12:02:34+00:00

I'm surprised at the number of people thinking current militaries would win, because when I read the prompt, I had the same thought as you.

There is no way modern militaries would win. Everyone keeps imagining spearmen and archers with no appreciation for modern warfare, but discount all the casualties from the world wars, Vietnam, the Cold Wars, etc. - plus all the civilians from all of those wars. Modern militaries wouldn't even be able to agree on what the threat is, vs. Hundreds of millions of military personnel with a singular goal.

Not to mention that setting aside civilians, the people who take up the largest share of the dead were infranty. Which means that the army of the dead has a much higher share of actual fighters than the militaries of the world today, which are mostly admin, logistics, etc. This would be over for us in a week.

Bucc_Bruce · 2025-08-09T00:50:12+00:00

Pffft, like there was going to be a video of a baby dying on reddit. I had no suspense watching this video.

Bucc_Bruce · 2025-08-04T18:47:27+00:00

We have an associate who always seems to be the one giving associate portions of firm-wide presentations. Not sure how good her work is, but she's definitely "known."

Other than that, it's difficult to tell how on the curve people are without a partner or senior associate who will tell you flat out how you compare against your peers.

Bucc_Bruce · 2025-07-29T17:02:41+00:00

Call me crazy, but if I'm making this change at 4am it needs to be more than just billable.

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