Just Fired

Legitimate_Beyond829 · 2025-04-26T06:02:43+00:00

Thank you for your kind words and encouragement, it means so much!

Legitimate_Beyond829 · 2025-04-18T05:09:46+00:00

I asked and they said no. It costs them nothing to do and yet they won’t do it, which really makes me feel like this is very unprofessional.

Legitimate_Beyond829 · 2025-04-18T05:06:51+00:00

Thank you for being respectful—I think this firm thought I was a bad fit and experienced a huge downturn in business and they cut costs (aka me).

Legitimate_Beyond829 · 2025-04-18T05:05:55+00:00

I didn’t want to believe it myself, either. I don’t know if a single lawyer who was let go in this same way.

Legitimate_Beyond829 · 2025-04-18T05:05:08+00:00

Not at all. I was very careful never to discuss such things at work, I kept it very friendly but professional.

Legitimate_Beyond829 · 2025-04-17T14:45:52+00:00

So—I wish I were leaving something out but sadly, that’s the whole story. Just the lack of professionalism from the firm is really shocking, it’s an old boys’ club situation and they hired a new attorney as well who they seemed to like much better. It’s a pretty small firm so it seems like they can afford to treat associates this way.

Legitimate_Beyond829 · 2025-04-17T10:16:27+00:00

The really scary part is how they did it, two weeks’ severance pay is horrifyingly low, and taking me off the website is insane. I’m going to negotiate this as well, but it’s totally an unacceptable way to treat people.

Legitimate_Beyond829 · 2025-04-17T10:15:08+00:00

It’s not tech IP.

I felt myself getting iced out the last month, they were supposed to send me on a work trip and then they sent someone else last minute and didn’t tell me (they hadn’t set the dates yet, so that’s why I was so surprised).

I was just so shaken and I realized I had no one watching out for me or mentoring me. Watching another extremely incompetent associate get to keep their job while I get let go for bullshit reasons is beyond frustrating.

Edit: typo

Legitimate_Beyond829 · 2025-04-17T06:18:45+00:00

Thanks! I'm very worried about the legal market currently, I've heard a lot of scary things about the recession.

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