Related Posts
What would be in hand salary?
We all know that
Aa gaya letter EY !!🎉🎉
Hey fellow Canadians! 😊 🇨🇦
Additional Posts in Law
Apps for keeping track of billable hours?
New to Fishbowl?
Download the Fishbowl app to
unlock all discussions on Fishbowl.
unlock all discussions on Fishbowl.
The founding partner talked down about my new opportunity, said “you can’t leave, at least not to ‘that’ Place. “
And the rest of the partners were pretty silent and hardly said anything to me at all. I was there 10 years.
Dirty looks, complaining I didn’t give enough notice, shut out of meetings, nothing too grand. They were going to fire me anyway. We hated each other. I left by shaking the partner’s hand and thanking him for the opportunity. The look on his face was perfect. Be mad professional and they’ll just be dumbstruck looking stupid.
Small firm. Principal attorney tried to fight me. Literally
Mutual combat. 🤣🤣
Worked at a firm for over a decade. Told my mentor, who knew EXACTLY why I was unhappy and did nothing to help fix it (not her responsibility to fix it, but it shouldn’t have been a surprise). Literally hung up the phone, never spoke to me again, even when I was trying to transition her clients (you know, instead of poaching them). Unfriended me on LinkedIn (LOL). Put a sour taste in my mouth and made me essentially become a cheerleader for anyone who gives notice to me hahah.
Very unfortunate. Sorry to hear it.
Referred to me in person and via email (to others in the firm who were taking over my cases) as a “money grubbing traitor.”
Wow. Classy.
She got mad, left the office immediately, didn’t talk to me the next day, let me go 3 days into my final 2 weeks, and didn’t pay me for those 2 weeks (she only paid me for those 3 days).
Wowww
OMFG - the managing partner literally tried to make me feel guilty for leaving by saying he rescued me off the streets and this is how I repay them?!
Okkkkk, like you mean you rescued me off of the same mean streets THAT YOU LIVE IN? Literally, the same neighborhood - less that a mile from where he raised his family. Narcissist.
Didn’t happen to me but a big 4 Partner tried to get my friend to stay by telling them, “well if you don’t stay for this next busy season we will hold it against you if you ever apply to work at the firm in the future”. After that I understood we didn’t matter to that team. So when it was my time to leave I didn’t even tell the partner I was leaving, I just told HR that I was going to a direct competitor. That was my last day. Got paid my 2 weeks plus 3 weeks of accrued vacation.
Rising Star
First firm: they said I could have my job back and were sorry I was leaving. Second firm: they were glad to get rid of me. Third firm: unceremoniously fired for insubordination and other reasons. (Admittedly, I was less than an ideal employee as I progressed). 🤣
Rising Star
Raided the client trust account! Just kidding. Basically started a real estate investment firm with investors and essentially worked two jobs and started turning down work and was always traveling for my own stuff and kind of irregularly showed up at the end. Happier now, though!
Called a partner and told her over the phone. She flipped out saying “no one is faithful anymore” and at that time I was making 14/hr as a law clerk. Left to go make 34/hr at the USAO.
Following up on this. That partner is now a judge and I shit you not I am arguing in front of her tomorrow.
Threatened to report me to the State Bar for an ethics violation because I supposedly should have told them I was looking, and tried to bully me into "reimbursing" them the malpractice premiums they were going to have to eat.
I held my ground on the premiums issue and didn't let them bully or guilt me into anything, and I didn't dignify that State Bar nonsense with any kind of reaction. Instead, I was able to walk away feeling confident in my decision to move to a firm that isn't toxic.
The silence is tough. Especially if you have otherwise been close to these people.
Partner for which I handled his biggest corporate client (massive multinational group). He told me he was taking it personally and asked that I not tell anyone yet that I was leaving and that he would let HR know. He didn’t talk to me for another week during which 3 other members of our 6 member team also quit (this was around October 2020).
After a week I was called into a meeting in which we were going to discuss the transition for the 3 others who had given their notice.
I ask why am I here and gave my notes for the files I had been taking care of. They asked why I had done that and I told them I had given my notice 1 week before. Yup HR was never told. I did not change my end date.
I couldn’t get ahold of the staffing partners on phone (during covid). Fully never responded to or acknowledged my email saying I’m leaving.
FWIW, because they ignored me, I got paid for two weeks to basically not work at all so that was nice at least
Rising Star
Screamed at me berated me the entire way on my way out, insulted me whenever I did transfer memos and other stuff was the most unprofessional experience in my life I honestly took a lower key job after it to recover from how freaking toxic it was
Pro
Not a firm but when I was bartending over winter break (I told them I can only work over winter break because of school) and it came time to REMIND them that in one week classes were starting and I wouldn’t be working anymore, the owner screamed at me like at the top of her lungs and told me I was being so selfish and that she had too many things on her plate to find a replacement. I made that my last day
I gave my notice to the board of equity partners and explained I was leaving because of the partner I worked for who is a psycho. They decided to pay out my notice instead of finishing my 2 weeks because of the HR issues with said partner. Partner didn’t know I bcc’d my team and told them I was fired.
Pro
I wish I was exaggerating with the use of “psycho”, but she did actually fit many of the clinical markers of psychopathy. I have no doubt that she would be clinically diagnosed. Compulsive lying, dishonesty about events so as to inflict the maximum stress on the other person, inability to maintain meaningful relationships beyond a surface level, manipulative, no accountability or remorse for her actions, totally lacked empathy, blamed everyone for her own mistakes, constantly tried to pit people against each other, superficially charming while constantly pulling classic mean girl bs. If I’m not mistaken, psychopaths are also often well educated, so it’s not surprising there are at least a few floating around the legal field. They are indeed among us!
Pro
Candidate of mine was told by partner (with whom she had a great relationship) "you better be working these next 2 weeks, we know where you live..."
Pro
It would be if meant to be funny...
This is making me nervous as I’m about to give notice 😅😅🫠🫠🫠 as the partner is travelling I’m just gonna give them a call rather than wait for them to be in the office again, and I’m just gonna make the call very short given all these reactions
You can’t video chat? Zoom? Teams?
Not a law firm but this was epic. Gave notice directly to the President of the company. We had worked together long enough and my manager was a key reason why I was leaving.
He called me a dick. Said he always heard I had no loyalty. This after working for him and getting his business off the ground for 3 years and never getting a cent when it was sold to a major international company.
I offered him 2 weeks notice but told him I would understand if he did not want it since I was going to a competitor. He laughed and said that the new company was not a competitor (within a year we were beating them in market share).
Then he asked me what they offered and he wanted to try and match it.
Went on like that for a few hours while I trained 2 people how to take my place.
Wish the assistant that was instructed to follow me around all day was wearing a Go Pro, would have been funnier than anything Michael Scott ever did.
Similar to others - the immature ones react with anger, or ostracize you, and I have had a few instances where they just plain violate the rules related to client notification of departure. One firm I left was very good - said that they would have me back any time, and scrupulously followed the rules around departure and notification. Being an a-hole to a departing colleague is just plain stupid - they could go in-house to your biggest client, and do you think they'll forget how you treated them? I've seen that unfold, and it is pretty ugly. Just be a decent person - it shouldn't be hard.