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Saturday, May 06, 2006

Dumber associate program

A long time ago, at a large Seattle law firm, we had a summer associate (let's call her Allison) who thought she was quite something. One day, someone assigned her to research a memo on copyright protection for works of vaudeville. I think she spent about a week researching and writing a big memo with her conclusions.

And the first thing it said was that the answer would depend on whether Mr. Vaudeville was still alive.

After the summer ended she called the hiring partner and said she had decided to accept a job offer from Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco, where she had spent the second half of her summer. She then added, completely gratuitously, that she hadn't been very impressed with the intelligence of the people at our law firm.


posted at 5:52 PM

2 Comments:

Blogger tp_gal said...

Every office has one of those.

At the dot-gone I worked for in the 90's her name was "Dumb-Kate". We had to have a meeting to explain to her why she couldn't SEND MESSAGES TO CLIENTS IN ALL CAPS.

In the earlier 90's I heard rumor of a postal clerk who was excited about the Louis Armstrong postage stamp release. She was really excited that they were honoring the first man on the moon (with a trumpet?)

May 07, 2006 10:38 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

So funny... I totally remember that. But what made you think of it after all these years? (Gosh, I wonder whatever happened to her...)

May 08, 2006 10:34 AM  

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