This Sounds Like Our Kind of Law Firm
A tipster sent us this Craigslist posting, with a query: “I wonder if this gets expensed to clients?”
National law firm with large Los Angeles offices seeks a Barista!!!Huge law firm with an in-house coffee bar. The hours are Monday-Thursday from 8:30-5:30. You will receive full benefits, parking, etc. Time and a half if overtime is needed.
The firm is looking for someone bright and quick! If you have experience at a coffee shop or other food services company that is a plus. A college student or recent college graduate who is looking for a job 4 days a week would be perfect!
Ivy league caliber firm with top benefits, super casual dress and fun environment.
Please email a formal resume in WORD format. All inquiries 100% confidential.
It’s a brilliant idea on the part of the firm. Keep your associates as heavily caffeinated as possible — and allow them to get their fix without even leaving the building.
Anyone know what firm is in the market for a barista?
Update: Based on the comments thus far, Quinn Emanuel is the leading suspect. If this is correct, what happened to their last barista? (Did he or she get promoted to associate, after claiming to have passed the bar?)
BARISTA - at Large Law firm [craigslist]
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Super casual and Ivy caliber probably means Quinn Emmanuel.
Quinn Emmanuel LA has a coffee bar.
The barista leaves at 5:30?
This can't be a law firm.
The alternative is to locate your offices in a building with a Starbucks downstairs and then get a corporate account, which is what one of the law firms in my city has done.
Why would a barista care that the firm is "Ivy League caliber"? The only scenario that comes to mind is that the barista loves to gab about Larry Summers and would prefer to serve coffee to people who would know what s/he is talking about. Otherwise... so what?
Maybe the attorneys at an "Ivy League caliber" firm would be more professional and polite than lawyers at a non-ILC firm?
But it might cut the other way. The Ivy League lawyers could be arrogant and entitled, throwing hissy fits when the steamed milk for their cappuccinos is imperfectly foamed.
Maybe it will attract a materialstic barista looking for an ivy league husband. But really, you know how "ivy league" lawyers like to wag their dicks-- almost as much as law firms like to wag their ivy league lawyers (who may or may not be dicks). Probably just vanity coming through.