darkswordsman17
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- Mar 11, 2004
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Has any group adults ever in the history of the world intentionally worn matching, brightly colored shirts to a happy hour? OK, so clearly they're lying about that. It sounds likely that they were doing it as some kind of protest against their employer. I guess they didn't know that it is (apparently?) illegal to fire them for that.
And please stop arguing with HAL. The kid believes that anything that works differently from how they do things in the UK is inherently wrong. Their government must love having people like that.
Have you never done a pub crawl? This is hardly rare, although more so outside of college or perhaps for charity, but to say that its never happened and so they're lying is so absurd its actually right up there with HAL's posts (I am fully with you about that though).
It appears to me this is a "law firm" only in a relatively loose sense - it actually appears to be a collections firm with one lawyer overseeing it. I actually represent a similar, but larger firm in employment matters. I have no idea what actually occurred here but I will say that debt collection is a very high-turnover industry, and it's possible the attorney owner felt this was a first step toward some kind of collective bargaining effort or something similar. Hard to say what was actually going on.
I was going to say, there's a lot of "law firms" that are glorified collection call centers, so its its very possible we're not talking a usual "professional" law firm here like some people seem to be assuming it is.
Seems that SKORPI0 has provided evidence supporting that. Polos and khakis are probably their normal attire (maybe even jeans). Also not surprising that someone in charge there could likely be a raging lunatic asshole. I doubt this place had a good reputation that this would damage it.
Actually the fact the people weren't protesting working at a place like that makes me not feel too bad for them. Personally if I was so hard up that I'd work for one of those places I'd be saving my money instead of spending it on a night out at a bar(s).