Crushed like bugs

I don't know why these folks thought they could get away with this except to say that temps always think they are smarter than everyone. Let me explain.

This project is being run at three sites -- one in Los Angeles (where, as near as I can tell, everyone is stupid) and two in D.C. At one of the D.C. locations (not the one I am at), a project started up at a law firm across the street recently. Apparently, a number of people at the other D.C. location were unable to resist the temptation to bill two projects at the same time. These folks signed up for the other project, and then shuttled back and forth across the street to work both projects. I assume they billed full hours to both projects, meaning they were double-billing. Otherwise, all you are doing is giving up overtime hours on both projects. I doubt they were doing that.

This kind of behavior makes no sense to me. Sure, you might haul in a couple thousand extra dollars, but you might also get your law license in DC suspended (or you might get disbarred!) and not be able to make any money as a lawyer in this town, at least for a while. Why do that?

Anyway, I have no idea how many people got whacked, but it apparently was more than one.I doubt any Uber fucks will cut me some slack, but at least I'll have this song in my head:

Good times, good times.

Yeah, that's going to leave a mark

All of the recent reshuffling of the suites last week apparently was done mostly to put all of the people who are not members of the DC Bar in the same room. Tonight, the reason for that became apparent, as they all got the ax. The project managers closed the doors to the suite, told everybody to take all their stuff home and check their email. Yeah, you're fired. About 40 people, I guess, and while it does not signal that the end is near, it does signal the beginning of the end. These people were doing responsiveness review. That means we're done with that now. Still an unknown (at least to me) amount of first review on potentially privileged stuff, I guess, and then an unknown amount of privilege log material. So we could have a ways to go. Not that anyone will tell us.

In any event, I think Rod Steward was wrong (that includes Sheryl Crow, who did a great cover of the song, and Cat Stevens, who wrote it):

No, this was just the first cut. Only about 40 people gone, and still nearly 400 left on the project. The deepest cuts are yet to come. I think Mick had it right about what happened tonight: