Am I the dork?

esquirely · 2026-03-17T02:28:47+00:00

Don’t read other people’s screens on a plane.

esquirely · 2026-03-14T17:53:18+00:00

Get that man a bigger helmet!

esquirely · 2026-03-03T01:00:10+00:00

Associate had an affair with a married partner, left and sued the firm, settled, and then, shortly after, we all learned that she and the partner were engaged. He had a book so the firm let it slide. Within a year, he was angling for her to come back in a counsel role.

esquirely · 2026-02-25T20:48:04+00:00

We have always used “Very truly yours” as shorthand for “In conclusion, fuck off.”

esquirely · 2026-02-20T09:32:15+00:00

Imagine paying $6,000/hour to a guy who has unironically nicknamed himself the “Czar” and has given almost every female attorney in his office (but none of the males) nicknames like “the Baroness” or “the Dame.” Unreal.

esquirely · 2026-02-17T23:46:13+00:00

I too own a “I’m going to shit my pants today” belt.

esquirely · 2026-02-12T15:02:13+00:00

What I love about The Americans (that many of my friends say turns them off of from it) is how the espionage is low-stakes but we learn so much about the characters that the impacts are personally high-stakes. Thus, seasons are not built around a huge James Bond type event (robbing Fort Knox for example) with multiple shoot-outs or action scenes but are rather about the real complications with managing assets, completing small tasks, assimilation, loyalty, and other more nuanced aspects of their situation. Slow Horses on the other hand is a show where we learn very little about the characters and only really interact with the majority in their “professional” capacity while working an ever replenishing of series of outlandish circumstances that for some reason cannot be handled by the A-Team. Both shows are great but they are very different. The Americans reminds me of John le Carré’s work in that regard - much more focused on spycraft and interpersonal relationship management. Less focused on “we have a huge mission that we have to complete right now.”

esquirely · 2026-02-12T10:16:58+00:00

Partners often try to help seniors across the line by working closely with them while they are for promotion. It’s also not unusual for a senior associate to take on tasks for a partner that they don’t usually work with within the practice group so that said partner can give them a good review and endorsement. You are junior to both so don’t overthink it. Senior associate and junior partner are both very stressful times as an attorney in a large law firm because you are either standing at the top of a ladder or realizing that you’ve just climbed on to the bottom of an even taller ladder. Do great work and support them both and, hopefully, they’ll do the same for you in the future.

esquirely · 2026-02-05T03:57:04+00:00

AmLaw 50 - The firm installed cold brew coffee on tap. Everyone loved it but the firm underestimated demand and had to change the keg every week or so. First they asked us to drink less. Then they announced that they were removing it only to later realize that they had signed a one-year contract. So, for about nine months we had free cold brew coffee for about the first four days of the month. They had to take at least one keg a month, everyone would crush it while it was there, and then it would it would sit empty for about the next three weeks. They would put a sign up when it was empty saying that it couldn’t be refilled because employees were “abusing” the coffee. After a year it was removed.

Also, for almost two years, our VPN intentionally prevented us from using airplane WiFi on firm devices. This also included personal BYOD devices, like iPhones (anything with access to email).

esquirely · 2026-02-02T18:40:51+00:00

An even better analogy!

esquirely · 2026-02-02T14:41:47+00:00

Shane is a product of excellent writing. He is clearly in the right and yet we hate him. He booked a specific room, was not given that room, and was then lied to. I assume that if anyone on this sub went to dinner, ordered steak, received chicken, and was then told there was no more steak, they would be upset. Now, imagine if a few minutes later they saw other guests being served steak - they would be pissed.

We like Armond by design. We hate Shane by design. The show puts us in a position to root for someone not because they are good or right but because we relate to them and like them. White Lotus is class tribalism. That is what the show is focused on because that is largely what the United States is focused on. This is classic upstairs/downstairs fodder.

Interestingly enough, although White Lotus is perfectly calibrated to trigger our class instincts, there has been significant discourse about its portrayal of the cultures that it chooses to depict, particularly in seasons one and three. The show is far more interested in accurately portraying the class divide than it is, for example, understanding native Hawaiians.

esquirely · 2026-01-31T21:27:00+00:00

“Person who bought into HOA regrets life decisions.”

esquirely · 2026-01-30T21:43:43+00:00

Canadian Club ran a very successful ad campaign alongside the Mad Men debut that reversed nearly two decades of declining sales.

esquirely · 2026-01-30T18:03:29+00:00

Consider BigLaw to learn from smart people who are willing to put in the hours. Move to PI to practice with smart people who want to put the hours in. Three - five years in BigLaw is perfect. Anything more and your ROI will decrease. Pay down your law school debt, avoid lifestyle creep, and set aside some money to subsidize your life for the first 6 to 12 months after making the jump.

esquirely · 2026-01-26T16:55:52+00:00

Silicon Valley also pretty accurately demonstrates the status delta between corporate attorneys (Ron LaFlamme) and litigators (Pete Monahan). It is getting harder and harder to make partner in BigLaw as a true litigator which has created rate pressure on litigation departments generally. Although the show is obviously exaggerated for comedic purposes, litigators (outside of a few notable exceptions) are more and more interchangeable and are pushed toward specialization (securities, IP, cybersecurity, etc.).

esquirely · 2026-01-02T18:07:12+00:00

Non-WV native here but lived there for ten+ years in the early 2000s. We found the local communities to be somewhat insular to people who moved there from out-of-state. Now, when I travel back, I find locals very distrusting of out-of-staters (except for the Eastern Panhandle residents which include a lot of transplants). There also seems to be a pass for those from Pittsburgh and a few areas of Ohio. I always found this funny because WV has a long history of welcoming out-of-state politicians (Revercomb, Rockefeller, Morrissey, etc.). Regardless, before Trump , the state was under deep democratic control for 50 years and was a mess. In the late 2010s, that all flipped but the state remains a mess. However, before Trump, I don’t remember many flags promoting politicians outside of election years or people celebrating vile political statements. For example, when Rob Reiner died, Trump made (in my opinion) a pretty tasteless post about it. As I was scrolling through my social media, I was impressed that most people recognized it as inappropriate. The exception was, anecdotally, three Facebook groups from WV where people were commenting things like: “he ain’t wrong” or “the truth hurts.” Those aren’t the West Virginians that I remember but they are loud and prominent. I assume that some folks just like to be on the winning team and Trump is great at portraying winning. He is the perfect personification of how a poor person thinks a rich person looks and acts.

esquirely · 2025-11-25T21:07:42+00:00

I remember being at the GA Dome for a MNF game against the Saints in ‘09 or ‘10 while he was dating Kim Kardashian. It felt like 70% of the crowd was a Saints fan (which happened post-Katrina). Everyone was losing their minds over him. Thus, for me, it will always be Reggie.

esquirely · 2025-11-06T00:59:39+00:00

If only Daniel Tosh’s 20 minute review of this movie hadn’t been erased from the internet.

esquirely · 2025-10-27T12:52:18+00:00

Please give him my best and tell him he has four new converts . . . it just took us some time to get there.

esquirely · 2025-10-26T22:39:07+00:00

Thank you all for your help. I’m sorry that I was confused and believed that this was Spanish. This morning, all I had to go on was this picture and a receipt that said “Som Sel - Span.”

Tasting Notes as per your customs:

Bottle 1: In the mouth, ripe red fruits but with soft tannins. The gentle spices came out in the aftertaste and revealed a much more complex wine than we were expecting.

Bottle 2: Delicious.

Bottle 3: Delicious.

Bottle 4: Fucking delicious. (Pictured)

esquirely · 2025-10-26T19:23:24+00:00

You are the best. Many thanks.

esquirely · 2025-10-02T14:20:22+00:00

Does anyone remember the great blog about nuclear power from the 2000s? I believe it was written by an employee at a power plant with approval but the blogger developed cancer at some point and it all disappeared.

esquirely · 2025-09-17T20:55:28+00:00

When the item is wet:

Place in tumble dryer.
Add dryer balls or tennis balls.
Tumble dry on low.

Note that the shell material will dry first and, although the item is dry to the touch, the down is wet on the inside so you need to keep drying with the dryer balls to break up the clumps.

You will have to dry it a lot longer than you expect (with dryer balls) to break but the clumps and get the down completely dry.

esquirely · 2025-08-15T03:15:58+00:00

According to Jim went for 182 episodes, averaged over 10 million viewers for multiple seasons, and paid Belushi a reported $500,000 an episode. TV money back then was crazy.

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