Oppo sols who want to have a 'chat' constantly

WHY 

(apart from double time recording and thinking I'm green enough to say something unhelpful to my client obvs)

JUST WHY THO

especially right now 

Is it you ML? 

*narrows eyes*
 

a perfectly affable sol I'm dealing with at the mo wibble, who emails me, then calls me to talk about his email 

"so do you have instructions"

"no I don't have instructions on the email you sent me 90 seconds ago"

 

heh, no it isn't me Hoolie.

Thankfully (or not), I talk to plenty of people by virtue of endless meetings (which serve little purpose at all). 

But if I were someone who didn't have much interaction, I would probably make small talk too. I used to get on well with Oppo sols when I did what you do and the odd brief chat wasn't unknown.

I hate people who ask if you “have instructions”. 

Don’t ask me about your instructions. I’ll tell you what I’m going to fucking do. Whether I was instructed by my client or I’m making it up just to piss you off - that’s for me to know.

that is so weird. 

 

I did have one once who was a total wideboy chancer who did keep calling me, saying that his client was dead impressed with my work and if we settled this case quickly he would be giving me loads of work in the future. I posted the guys website on here at the time it was so funny. He claimed to have "obtained millions billions of damages for his client's" [sic] 

I was shocked that when his client did settle it (for a nice sum) - i never heard from the again. SHOCKED i was. 

 

 

 

I am baffled by the hate towards chat tbh.

When I was in insolvency PP I was constantly chatting shoite with the other side.

It was, after all a constant roundabout of cases where one day you’d be for the Liquidator and the next a director /debtor, with many of the same faces on the other side.

 

I really hate talking to people on the phone in a work context. I'm deeply suspicious of oppos wanting to chat shit, they just want to trip you up  

no one really realises I hate chat, because I seem very friendly and chatty. 

I had a trade union rep on the other side of a claim who would constantly ring for a chat.

As in I sent him a simple PH agenda, and he would ring me and then open it up and say “right let’s have a look here and try and read through it on the call and think about whether he agreed”. I had to keep telling him to just read what I had put and send me an email. Turned out the agenda was agreed but he wanted to hang about on the phone for half hour chatting.

The other weird thing he did was putting Outlook appointments into my email calendar about directions for agreed deadlines for disclosure, statements etc. I declined them all, obviously. He lost his shit and couldn’t understand that this wasn’t normal practice in a litigated matter.

He got really nasty in the end because I got pissed off with him wasting my time.

Eugh. People who can't answer straightforward questions without 20 minutes of exposition are the worst. 

Like, one day I am going to be dead and currently this conversation is going to be my biggest deathbed regret.