You should also ask whether the firm was open on Columbus Day.

ASSSTIRD!

2 - exactly.

Didn't work over the weekend, but Columbus Day itself was a regular business day at the firm.

i was working on 'discovering' a paid 1L summer position, does that count?

-nervous T-10 1L

I really don't understand why you continue to have a significant % of the posts on this site dedicated to discussion and collection of horribly unscientific and statistically useless polls that defy common sense.

Do you really think that 1/4 of us worked on Christmas? Really? The readers on this website skew to the dramatic and people that respond to your polls likely even more so. I would love to know what percentage of people voting are actually still in law school. 10%? 20%? more?

In case you haven't realized, lawyers and law students like to be a little over dramatic when it comes to the rigors of big law life. You can see this verified in comments remarking on bonus amounts that were later disproven by posted memos from the same firms. People like to lie, exaggerate, underreport, etc. to fulfill their own goals of creating a certain image about the firm they work at or firms in general.

Such a waste of time and nobody is buying these statistics, so stop devoting such a large portion of your site to them. I know they are easy to conjur up and fill space, but everyone knows they are worthless.

-nervous T-10 1L .... if we ever find out who you are, there's no way you'll be hired anywhere. You're a mega tool.

This is moronic. C-Day was a regular work day. In this economy, that means - since the office was open as it should be - that I was at my desk like a good little lawyer monkey drone, and since there's practically no work to go around, I read up on ATL and spent time trying to find out what stocks are bargains I could gamble on.

Columbus Day does not count as a holiday. Not even teachers get Columbus Day off, it's usually a teacher workday. Firm was open and it was business as usual.

Bernold needs to learn the difference between a lolcat and 4chan.

Only the ATL staff was lazy enough to have Columbus Day off.

Where is the choice that it wasn't a holiday at all?!?

Where is the choice that it wasn't a holiday at all?!?

This is stupid.

I didn't work over the "weekend" unless by the weekend you include Monday when most normal people work anyway.

Nobody except banks and government employees takes Columbus Day off. Hell even the local public schools had class.

Where is the choice that it wasn't a holiday at all?!?

Since when is Columbus day considered a 'work holiday?' I've never heard of it being a holiday for normal people (i.e. non-governmental/school employees). No firm I've ever worked for closed the office on that day. Hell, even Presidents day isn't a holiday anymore for most lawfirms (though it still is for my firm - yay!). My firm does provide an "extra holiday" for staff, who can choose to take either MLK day, Columbus day or Veterans Day, but the office as a whole, is open.

I one time worked for one firm that only gave off 6 holidays: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day (only - not the following Friday - had to use a vacation day for that) and Christmas (and don't think of leaving early for New Year's or Christmas Eve). yeah, don't work for them anymore.

Where is the choice that it wasn't a holiday at all?!?

What's with the F-bomb in the lolcal caption? Let's keep the site SFW.

oh geeze, nervous T-10 1L is going to get a job before me. I better increase the girth of my mail merge.

-really nervous T-14 1L

#18,

If your boss is close enough to read the f-bomb then you probably shouldn't be on ATL.

I missed the cat posts so much! A bit sad to say, but it was the best part of my day today. Love the crazy cat.