Dead. He came off his motorbike around 10 years ago. Used to drink a bottle of whiskey a day. I have no doubt the two were connected.
He used to throw files at me down the stairs and other such treats. He would also leave notes on my desk telling me how terrible i was. Decades down the line i still see those notes on occasion.
He's a successful KC at a prominent set and also something else successful which would identify him. Complete sociopath with zero empathy. Hope he gets cancer.
He was brilliant but also a complete ladypart. Once told me (as a very junior associate) to F*** off home when we were at a hearing overseas. (He did later have the good grace to apologise.) Used to regularly pick on and belittle people in his team in front of outsiders.
I found out at my leaving do after tolerating years of his crap that he was bipolar. It explained a lot and I wish I had known before because as self-doubting junior I blamed myself for a lot of his behaviour.
Interesting parallels there Nex. The self doubt that can be created by a single person at an early stage in your career is terrifying. I spend a lot of time mentoring and training younger members of the profession on confidence and learning how to recognise genuine constructive criticism from gratuitous behaviour. Thankfully there are a lot more seniors now in practice who confront this sort of shite. Shame its taken decades and still work to do.
Boss # 1 – Evil witch of the highest order. Got made a partner because she was fooking the Managing Partner (although she nearly scotched that by sucking off an associate when she got hammered at a party). After she got made up the MP divorced his wife and they got married. She got very publicly booted out of the partnership some years later and became a housewife as no-one else would employ her.
Boss # 2 – Got booted out of his city firm after being jailed for his second DUI. Set up on his own. No idea how it went, but the business sold a number of years later and I suspect his shares made him a few million. He was like Donald Trump and if you told him that he would be flattered.
Stole a six figure sum from our employer - and the office Christmas savings club fund - and spent it on cocaine, clothes and a toyboy who dumped her the Instant she was convicted.
big, big massive LOL at the application of the word “evil” to anyone I’ve ever worked for
of the three more senior individuals I found most difficult to work with, one is a retired city partner who’s now about 70 and appears to still be living in the same big house in the same dull suburb (he was basically a decent guy, and a big name in the market, but a real grumpy fvcker); one is a moderately big cheese in the reinsurance industry; and one is a quasi legal consultant in the energy world after washing through a couple of partner gigs at not very good american law firms
Two have equal billing. One ended up in jail. The other was frogmarched from.the premises after an attempt to cover up fraud was revealed. He's now a low grade consultant at a PR firm.
This Boss wasnt evil but very unpleasant. As with others a complete lack of empathy and understanding their impact on others. Was one of those partners who move every few years based on bullshit. Took over department forced certain people out. I stayed a few months and left. Person actually got away with much more than a few years, as partner who recruited him would have been embarrassed to let them go too soon. Person was ultimately forced out a few years after i left not sure because they were unpleasant but useless from a business dev point of view and did little actual law work.
Not my direct bosses. But the two most evil I've worked for are - respectively:
- continuing the graceful drift through the partnership of declining tiers of law firms every 2-3 years (or however long it takes them to discover what a useless prick he is); and
- very senior and successful in the former Coffee LLP and held out as a poster child and an example for the kids to follow, and probably still despised by every single person who works with them.
I had one years ago who took actual incel pleasure in bullying the female members of the team, it was well known his end game was to make each one cry. He's still there, hating himself and all the women presumably.
I've seen her change firms on average once every 3 to 4 years, leaving a trail of destruction behind her. 5 casualties from the place i left and 2 more from the one she went to. We are known as the survivors club.
She has a handful of clients she takes with her each time which make her an attractive partnership prospect despite being widely known as a complete nightmare to work with. She is coming up to the 4 year mark now so we expect another move.I think she might be running out of options thoas it is quite a sepcialist area
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can't imagine they pay big 4 firm partners in belfast that much tbh.
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Time.
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She's flying high at a Tier 1 Investment Bank but has mercifully left the country.
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Dead. He came off his motorbike around 10 years ago. Used to drink a bottle of whiskey a day. I have no doubt the two were connected.
He used to throw files at me down the stairs and other such treats. He would also leave notes on my desk telling me how terrible i was. Decades down the line i still see those notes on occasion.
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Your mum
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Appears to have retired from big law and now shilling themselves as some sort of legal management consultant/goon for hire
0/10 would not recommend
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Still a partner, no doubt still gaslighting his junior associates. Pleasingly the work appears to have dried up though.
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Still unemployed after leaving prison, so far as I know. (She genuinely was pretty evil...)
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Still being a aunt I assume. Not spoken to them since the day I left that place of employment.
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He's a successful KC at a prominent set and also something else successful which would identify him. Complete sociopath with zero empathy. Hope he gets cancer.
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MA?
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Supporting a flyover on the M60.
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Big 4 in Belfast is abso kerching time.
You probably know them actually, clubbers, on the accountancy grapevine. They are just as weird and freaky and rubbery as they seem.
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So far as I can tell he is still a partner at the last pp firm I worked at. No doubt still ruining the lives of his underlings.
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Never had an evil boss. Maybe I'm too trusting and naive to see the evil.
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Last I hear he was tarting himself round the City for a consultancy but he had heart problems so may have died since then.
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Deader than a dead thing.
He was brilliant but also a complete ladypart. Once told me (as a very junior associate) to F*** off home when we were at a hearing overseas. (He did later have the good grace to apologise.) Used to regularly pick on and belittle people in his team in front of outsiders.
I found out at my leaving do after tolerating years of his crap that he was bipolar. It explained a lot and I wish I had known before because as self-doubting junior I blamed myself for a lot of his behaviour.
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still there. unfortunately our economic fortunes are somewhat tied. ONE DAY.
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Interesting parallels there Nex. The self doubt that can be created by a single person at an early stage in your career is terrifying. I spend a lot of time mentoring and training younger members of the profession on confidence and learning how to recognise genuine constructive criticism from gratuitous behaviour. Thankfully there are a lot more seniors now in practice who confront this sort of shite. Shame its taken decades and still work to do.
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Probably getting made redundant and getting a huge fat payoff from somewhere else as they did after I escaped
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Marlanas what did she go to prison for? I've never really had an evil boss. The toughest boss I had has retired early.
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Never had an evil boss, never even had one that was particularly mean to me when I didn't deserve it
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Scrabbling for pennies at some dodgy legal tech start up.
Ha ha
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never had one tbf
had a few shyt ones over the years, most have been found out, but I don’t waste time keeping tabs on them
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Sacked for various law firms and now she is listed on one of those legal consultancy websites. I imagine she has plenty of work coming in.
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Boss # 1 – Evil witch of the highest order. Got made a partner because she was fooking the Managing Partner (although she nearly scotched that by sucking off an associate when she got hammered at a party). After she got made up the MP divorced his wife and they got married. She got very publicly booted out of the partnership some years later and became a housewife as no-one else would employ her.
Boss # 2 – Got booted out of his city firm after being jailed for his second DUI. Set up on his own. No idea how it went, but the business sold a number of years later and I suspect his shares made him a few million. He was like Donald Trump and if you told him that he would be flattered.
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Stole a six figure sum from our employer - and the office Christmas savings club fund - and spent it on cocaine, clothes and a toyboy who dumped her the Instant she was convicted.
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She's a Judge.
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Running her own shop. Good luck to her*
*the poisonous little smurf.
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She’s at one of those new law firms. Hope she’s as miserable now as she made me then.
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big, big massive LOL at the application of the word “evil” to anyone I’ve ever worked for
of the three more senior individuals I found most difficult to work with, one is a retired city partner who’s now about 70 and appears to still be living in the same big house in the same dull suburb (he was basically a decent guy, and a big name in the market, but a real grumpy fvcker); one is a moderately big cheese in the reinsurance industry; and one is a quasi legal consultant in the energy world after washing through a couple of partner gigs at not very good american law firms
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Subterfuge may well have worked for the same person as me.
Or alternatively lots of nasty types end up at legal consultancies when firms realise they are even too toxic for law firms.
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Two have equal billing. One ended up in jail. The other was frogmarched from.the premises after an attempt to cover up fraud was revealed. He's now a low grade consultant at a PR firm.
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Laz, the MP of our former shop comes pretty close. Although probably more utter qunt than actual evil.
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This Boss wasnt evil but very unpleasant. As with others a complete lack of empathy and understanding their impact on others. Was one of those partners who move every few years based on bullshit. Took over department forced certain people out. I stayed a few months and left. Person actually got away with much more than a few years, as partner who recruited him would have been embarrassed to let them go too soon. Person was ultimately forced out a few years after i left not sure because they were unpleasant but useless from a business dev point of view and did little actual law work.
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How evil does someone have to be for someone like Warren - who claims to be On The Right Side Of History - to want to get cancer?
What did they do Warren? Murder someone? Rape someone? Put a red pen through your sh1t drafting?
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Small Man Syndrome; quite possibly! She went to at least two firms after she left my place before ending up where she is now.
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Fun Sponge having a totally normal one as per.
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Not my direct bosses. But the two most evil I've worked for are - respectively:
- continuing the graceful drift through the partnership of declining tiers of law firms every 2-3 years (or however long it takes them to discover what a useless prick he is); and
- very senior and successful in the former Coffee LLP and held out as a poster child and an example for the kids to follow, and probably still despised by every single person who works with them.
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Level of evil of the latter was such that she was widely known among those who worked with her simply as EWH.
Evil Witch from Hell.
Actually seemed to take pleasure in inflicting pain on her team and bullying them horribly, beneath a veneer of sweetness and light.
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He died from alcoholism a number of years ago.
It is a stain on my character that I still take pleasure from this fact.
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If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by
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Lol Tom, I see you're still butt-hurt from the spanking I gave you once? Let it go mate, comes across as very small dick energy
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Quite a few in jail then.
I had one years ago who took actual incel pleasure in bullying the female members of the team, it was well known his end game was to make each one cry. He's still there, hating himself and all the women presumably.
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He was an absolute khunt who bullied the associates, me included. He retired and developed cancer. I do not know if he survived and I don’t much care.
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I've seen her change firms on average once every 3 to 4 years, leaving a trail of destruction behind her. 5 casualties from the place i left and 2 more from the one she went to. We are known as the survivors club.
She has a handful of clients she takes with her each time which make her an attractive partnership prospect despite being widely known as a complete nightmare to work with. She is coming up to the 4 year mark now so we expect another move.I think she might be running out of options thoas it is quite a sepcialist area
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Hmmm. Hotnow doesn't seem to have descended on this the way he does when a woman says it. I wonder why that is?
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