This
week,
Slate
is
featuring
ruminations
on
the
nature
of
revenge.
And
as
our
country
is
increasingly
run
by
the
petty
grievances
of
a
powerful
man,
it
feels
particularly
relevant.
Perusing
the
content,
I
was
struck
by
one
particular
tale
of
Biglaw
revenge.
Alison
Green
of
Ask
a
Manager
has
been
giving
out
workplace
advice
for
nearly
20
years.
For
her
contribution
for
the
revenge
compendium,
she
collected
the
best
stories
of
employee
revenge,
which
started
strong
with
this
Biglaw
story.
“A
legal
secretary
at
the
Big
Law
firm
I
worked
at
knew
she
was
going
to
be
fired,
so
the
day
before,
she
went
into
a
bunch
of
partners’
emails
and
sent
their
wives
evidence
of
infidelity,
printed
out
confidential
employee
evaluations
and
communications
about
bonuses/pay
and
left
them
in
everyone’s
desk,
and
then
cleaned
out
the
swag
closet
(company-branded
shirts/hats/bags
etc.)
and
dropped
several
thousand
dollars’
worth
of
merchandise
with
the
law
firm’s
name
and
logo
off
at
a
homeless
encampment.”
We
certainly
can’t
condone
the
questionably
legal
vengeance
in
this
anecdote.
But
there’s
a
lesson
in
the
narrative.
It’s
a
great
reminder
for
all
those
puffed
out
with
the
self-importance
of
their
elite
degrees
roaming
the
halls
of
Biglaw:
you’re
not
all
that.
It’s
often
the
staff
that
know
where
all
the
(figurative)
bodies
are
buried
and
treating
*all*
of
your
co-workers
with
respect
and
dignity
can
go
a
long
way.
Kathryn
Rubino
is
a
Senior
Editor
at
Above
the
Law,
host
of
The
Jabot
podcast,
and
co-host
of
Thinking
Like
A
Lawyer.
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