Goddamned heavy-duty staples!!! How is it that they always manage to bend, twist, warp just a wee bit, or sometimes not such a wee bit, upon use, thus rendering them nearly impossible to remove?
And while I’m at it, fucking rabid admin assistants on speed! Why do they have to staple things in 75 different places at a variety of angles and depths, thus rendering them impossible to unstaple?
A bit of context: my employer, a law firm, just lost a very large client to other counsel in another state, and the client and new counsel are now demanding that we provide them with copies of EVERY GODDAMNED DOCUMENT in every goddamned one of several hundred files, for free (as our fees are not hourly, but per-project, and this work was obviously not contemplated in the fee agreement).
The pitiful part: the client already has around 95% of this stuff in their own files, or should if they aren’t complete morons, as we’ve already provided it to them at earlier stages of the process. Basically, they’re having us do their sucky grunt work for free, for which I get to do lots of unpaid overtime. (The partners will have to duke it out about the fees later on.) Some of these files are quite thick, and I am fried beyond belief, and simply do not have the emotional wherewithal to fight with my staple remover.
It’s also very emotionally draining to see these guys go out the door; some of them are like old friends, and it’s not like we lost the client because we screwed up. I feel like I’m doing the legal equivalent of embalming bodies. Anyone know of a good client loss bereavement counselor?
