Dirty LAWndry reader, Angela, is extra pissy about her fellow Alumni today.  She wanted to vent about a situation that occurred today.  Apparently, she was in a setting where she couldn’t verbalize what she was thinking at that moment, so she dropped me an email to share with all of you.

“So, there I was standing in the lobby of Pepper, when all of a sudden I hear someone say my name.  It was a girl (”Lacy”) that I knew from law school.   We weren’t friends, but we had a few classes together and participated in some activities outside of school.  After graduation and during bar review, I was pregnant so I decided to postpone the exam, but I continued to take the bar review classes.  During this time, “Lacy” kept hinting to me that I was never going to be an attorney because I’m pregnant and how difficult I just made my life by deciding to keep my child over a career.  She wouldn’t say it directly, but she would quote statistics related to my situation.  When the results were announced, I got a phone call from “Lacy.”  Actually, she left a message stating that she was sorry that I didn’t pass the bar exam and yada, yada, yada.  I guess she looked up whether my name was listed as a successful candidate on the bar exam website.   Meanwhile, I had already given birth and was planning on taking the bar as soon as possible.  I couldn’t afford to sit for the February exam, so I decided to continue saving until I could. I didn’t think it was necessary to call “Lacy” back to correct her.

Let’s fast forward three years to the lobby at Pepper.  I’m now an attorney doing document review.  I haven’t even had my license for a full year yet.   So, here I am in the lobby with Lacy who’s asking what I’m doing at her firm.  So, I said I work here.  And she kept repeating loudly - you work here? - as if I didn’t belong there.  So, I told her that I finally got my license to practice.  And she started snorting and screwing up her face saying that she wasn’t aware that I had passed the bar exam.  Apparently, this heffa has been checking the bar exam results since to see whether or not I had passed.  She said she must have missed a year by accident.  WTF?

So, of course, now she wants to know exactly what I’m doing at Pepper.  I told her I was doing document review.  And she started laughing and saying that I didn’t work for Pepper I was just doing document review.  I didn’t mean to imply that I was a Pepper employee.  I just meant that I was going to work.  Anyway, I asked her what she did there and she told me that one of the partners had her doing briefs at the moment so she was very busy and would pay me a visit later.   A Pepper associate that I knew overheard the conversation and felt bad for me so he looked up “Lacy’s” information.  It turns out that “Lacy” is also a document reviewer and has been doing document review for the past three years.  Furthermore, she doesn’t have any assignments from any of the partners.  I doubt they even know her name.

Needless to say, I’m pissed off at this snaggle-toothed, barren, wombat of an attorney.   Leave me the f**k alone and stop worrying about what I’m doing with my life.  I am not ashamed about doing document review.  It helps to pay my f*****g bills and contributes to my family’s income.  How dare you think that you can put me down?  Do you even know that I also started a solo practice and I have a few clients?  What about you?  If doing document review is supposed to be so shameful, why are you still doing it after having your license for three whole years?  Get a f*****g life and while you’re at it stop using Pepper’s address as your business address on the attorney look-up website as if you’re their employee.  I guess you’re not the only one who can look people up, huh ,b***h!”

Now, tell them why you’re really mad, Angela.  Just kidding!  Thanks for sharing, Angela!  Speak on it, people.