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hey folks, I am going to join Oracle ossi in Hyderabad location. I have never been to Hyderabad, and will be relocating. Please guide on what would be good areas to look for rent. Also, what would be rent like for 2/3 bhk. Ideally my budget for rent would be <25k. Initially I will be going but in future my family will join me once I am settled. Any points to note or any other gotcha to keep in mind ? Please suggest.
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Okay one more, summer clerk responded to an assignment with a pretty basic legal research question. Clearly did not even bother to google it first.
Partner sent back the case, did not address the clerk, but had copied the entire practice group.
“I had an interesting thought. What if we brought in law students and overpaid them to do basic tasks like legal research. While we lose money on them in the short term, this could allow us to identify long term fits. Thoughts?”
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Some of y’all don’t know what passive aggressive means lol. A lot of these are commonly used and are straightforward. “Let me know if you want me to clarify” is not passive aggressive. I use that as my “here’s my work product I’m happy to discuss if you’d like” sign-off in my emails and it’s quite common. It just means if you have questions reach out. “Unless I’m mistaken” or “I might be wrong” or “correct me if I’m wrong” is just a way to say “I’m not 100% sure but this is what I think.” These phrases are very common.
I don’t like to be passive aggressive. I like to be aggressive aggressive lol jk jk
Once saw a partner respond to a lengthy email from an associate with just, “What does this email say?”
lol I’ve received and I’ve also used “is there a shorter version of this?” Or, “is this still draft where is the final?” 😳😅😂🤣
This doesn't seem passive aggressive to me... I read it as acknowledging that one-way written communication isn't always clear and preemptively trying to open up the lines of communication for any questions.
I always include something similar when asking someone to do something for me.
@manager 😅 fair enough -- context makes all the difference sometimes😅
Was on a chain where a first year submitted a draft MSJ to a partner. He just replied back “do you think we should attach any exhibits to prove what we are saying, or wing it?”
That’s when you hit em with the Judge Dredd “I am the law”
Same partner: we had lost an MSJ on an immediately appealable issue. I replied to the notification asking “notice the appeal?”
“Either that or refer the client to a firm that knows what they are doing. Your call.”
Dude is savage but I low key love him.
That type of attitude can actually lighten things up when it comes from the right kind of partner who you know is not taking themselves too seriously. Sounds like that’s this partner.
Not quite passive aggressiveness, but I love seeing people respond “yes” or “no” to emails containing a series of complex questions or options.
When a partner says “But maybe I’m missing something” when they disagree with your analysis. It’s code for “maybe YOU’RE missing something.”
A partner that asks questions starting with “is there a reason why (insert thing they have a question about)?”
Now if I were to simply respond with “yes” my job would be in danger.
These kinds of phrasings are a learned trait. That partner likely, when first supervising other attorneys, responded with: “change x to y. Remove that sentence. Etc. Etc.” And then would get responses defending how things were in the first place or, even worse, the hapless associate would just comply knowing there was something wrong with the partner’s directions but not calling it out.
So now the partner is hedging his/her own bets by giving the benefit of the doubt.
At least that’s how I read it.
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That’s what I ended up doing 😊
My old partner didn’t apparently know how to/refused to search her email for things I’d sent off so would regularly say “I need xx. you haven’t sent me xx and I wanted it (date)” so eventually I would just send back- “Hi XX, please see below and attached” always using the original email chain sent weeks earlier to basically say “actually yes you did receive it”. passive aggressive? Maybe. CYA? absolutely.
I still do this. What I cant stand is that they dont send their comments or revisions in response to that email. They do another email as if to suggest that didnt happen.
“Unless I’m mistaken....”
Responding with ellipses. For example, I’ve seen where opposing counsel asked my partner a question about additional records when we produced literally everything we had. The partner’s two word response?
“Additional documents...”
My secretary does this regardless of what I asked her to. I often thought it was because I am not a partner.
“Make sense?”
C2: alternatively, you can say “let me know if this doesn’t make sense. I’m not always the best at explaining things” or just “let me know if this doesn’t make sense.”
Somehow, shortening it to “make sense?” makes it seem condescending. I translate it as “why do I even have to interact with you?” Or as a way to trap someone later if they say “I wasn’t sure what you meant there” because the other person can say “I told you to tell me if it doesn’t make sense.”
Finally, I don’t think it is such an issue if you do it occasionally, but if you do it all of the time I see you as an arrogant jerk who thinks you are smarter than the lowly masses who you have the waste precious time explaining things to.
Per my prior email always lol
The best, yet the worst?
I hate when I have to “per my prior email..”. People wasting everyone’s time because they can’t just read my dang email!
Classic “correct me if I’m wrong” 😳
Some of you guys are pretty sensitive lol
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“Sorry if I missed it”, when following up for something that is way overdue and was likely forgotten.
Jackass Partner on every email
I send him: Let me read your email back to you and see if you understand it.
...everyone else seems to understand my emails.