As for Linda, who hasn't been mentioned for a long time...I don't want to poke a hole in this woeful tale of injustice, but...didn't she fail out of law school before getting married? Is it possibel that something was wrong with her legal reasoning and/or listed credentials, even if this villainous company had had an opening?
I do NOT want to DASH your hope’s unnecessariley, b/c they could be ON THE LEVEL, but I know a freind, Linda who interviewed for an INHOUSE position at a FORTUNE 500 company in Stamford and they made her write a memo on a topic that cleareley applied to their situeation. So my freind did alot of research and came up with a MEMO, that I helped her on. She was sure she must be on the short list, or mabye even was getting the job b/c there was SOME confiedential information given to her so that she could write a better memo. But FOOEY!!!! As it turned out, this Fortune 500 Company in STAMFORD, CONNECTEICUT (THEY KNOW WHO THEY ARE), was just useing her to get some CHEEP LEGAL RESEARCH and free thought’s from her. She did NOT get the job, and as it turned out, they did NOT even have a job. They ONLEY brought her and a few other ladie’s in to PICK THEIR BRAIN’s, free, grattis–THAT WAS DOUBEL FOOEY!
Then the lawyer who was supposedley lookeing to hire her, after telling her there was NO job, asked if she wanted to go out with him on a DATE?!!!! TRIPEL FOOEY! Linda of course DECLINED!!!!
I told the manageing partner, and he said that he would NEVER accept any work from that Company. That may not mean that much, b/c they are in STAMFORD (and that is NOT in NY, and we are NOT licensed in Stamford, but still, I think it was very GALLANT a gesture of the manageing partner to swear off any busness from that Company, especially b/c it is a FORTUNE 500 Company. YAY!!!!!!
I have heard of this. This happens at smaller companies that know law firm associates who are desperate to get out, and if they interview them and give them a work assignment, they will do a far better job than the existing in-house louts. It is those same in-house louts who demand that the applicant send them their work product in MS-Word format, so that with little modification, they can themselves claim credit for this. I am not personally familiar with any of the companies you have listed, but wouldn't put it past anyone to get work and then take credit for it. As for Ellen's friend, she might not have been the sharpest knife in the drawer, and may not have gotten the job, but to ask her out adds insult to injury. It is that same male mentality that causes all of us to detest men who try and take advantage of us, both at work as well as in our personal lives.
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