{"id":103,"date":"2005-08-12T10:04:45","date_gmt":"2005-08-12T14:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/08\/12\/pranks-and-path-to-partnership-anoth"},"modified":"2008-05-04T09:53:24","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T16:53:24","slug":"pranks-and-path-to-partnership-another-week-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/08\/12\/pranks-and-path-to-partnership-another-week-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Week Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a298\" title=\"a298\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week at work:<\/p>\n<p>I fell victim to one of the dreaded prank emails.\u00a0 A senior associate sent me an email from my friend&#8217;s computer stating that she was going to break up with her boyfriend.\u00a0 I briefly considered picking up the phone to console her, but opted not to because (a) I was on a super tight deadline and (b) she has a tendancy to cry (I can&#8217;t deal with tears; I&#8217;m a boy like that\u00a0).\u00a0 So instead, I sent her back a consoling email (and no, that is not an oxymoron!).\u00a0 Luckily I didn&#8217;t start trashing her boyfriend, both because he&#8217;s a nice guy and because I&#8217;ve learned my lesson about trashing\u00a0friends&#8217; not-necesarily-permanently-ex boyfriends, as this email did not come from her but came from said senior associate.\u00a0 She made the mistake of\u00a0leaving her post unattended.\u00a0 =)\u00a0 (I guess I also made the mistake of responding via email rather than picking up the phone and asking her if everything was okay.\u00a0 But really.\u00a0 Crying!!)<\/p>\n<p>JP was out of the office, but called periodically so I could fill him in on what he was\u00a0missing.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a law firm.\u00a0 Nothing much happens.\u00a0 He always sounds slightly disappointed, like he expected the Apocalypse to have occured in his absence.\u00a0 I am tempted to lie the next time he calls and make up something about the earth crashing into the sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week at work: I fell victim to one of the dreaded prank emails.\u00a0 A senior associate sent me an email from my friend&#8217;s computer stating that she was going to break up with her boyfriend.\u00a0 I briefly considered picking up the phone to console her, but opted not to because (a) I was on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lawyering"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}