The cards reveal all
For those who work in corporate law offices, you are familiar with the pain/privilege of the company credit card. The privilege of being given one, should you happen to be a lawyer. The pain of dealing with chasing receipts and inputting details if you happen to work for a lawyer.
Partners are the worst. They spend the most, put EVERYTHING on the company credit card, and then after a week of nagging they will come along and shit their wallet full of crumpled up, smudged receipts all over your in-tray and not see anything wrong in doing so.
Partners are the worst as they are so predictable and boring. There will always be the plane ticket, there will always be the stay at the 4 star hotel and there will never be an extra charge for a porn film on the hotel invoice.
Junior solicitors are more fun. For starters, they are usually younger than me which means I pull rank and they actually listen to me when I say that I need their receipts in by a particular date.
For seconds, junior solicitors haven't achieved the stable family life that is the realm of partners in the firm. Which means that although the firm pays for taxis home after 8pm, their cab receipts vary wildly in price, depending on whether they actually take the cab home, or go to their girlfriend's house in Brunswick, or go to a St Kilda address once in a while where you know they don't live.
Sometimes you just have to take your fun where you can get it. I mean, of course, me but this also pertains to well-travelled junior solicitors.
Partners are the worst. They spend the most, put EVERYTHING on the company credit card, and then after a week of nagging they will come along and shit their wallet full of crumpled up, smudged receipts all over your in-tray and not see anything wrong in doing so.
Partners are the worst as they are so predictable and boring. There will always be the plane ticket, there will always be the stay at the 4 star hotel and there will never be an extra charge for a porn film on the hotel invoice.
Junior solicitors are more fun. For starters, they are usually younger than me which means I pull rank and they actually listen to me when I say that I need their receipts in by a particular date.
For seconds, junior solicitors haven't achieved the stable family life that is the realm of partners in the firm. Which means that although the firm pays for taxis home after 8pm, their cab receipts vary wildly in price, depending on whether they actually take the cab home, or go to their girlfriend's house in Brunswick, or go to a St Kilda address once in a while where you know they don't live.
Sometimes you just have to take your fun where you can get it. I mean, of course, me but this also pertains to well-travelled junior solicitors.
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