Partner Doesn't Give A Damn If Associates Freeze To Death

Freeze your asses off or get a new job, associates. The decision is in your ice-cold hands.

Some law firm partners can be very prickly people. They want everything to go exactly their way — or else. These partners are often extremely difficult to work with, but to be quite frank, they really don’t care.

Take, for example, an email that Michael Faillace, managing partner of New York firm Michael Faillace & Associates, recently sent out to all attorneys and staff members. It turns out Faillace can’t stand the fiery hell that is a New York City summer, and he expects everyone in his firm to suffer with the freezing cold temperatures he needs to stave off the “disgusting heat.”

The subject line of the email was “Control of the temperature in the new office,” and our reprint contains all of the typos and misspellings that were included in the original copy:

I hope you are all adjusting well to the new office. Yesterday I had the very unfortunate surprise to find that the temperature in this office is centrally controlled. As most of you know, I cannot work unless my office is very very cold. For this reason, we will have to set up the office air conditioner to work at around 50 degrees so that the temperature in my office will remain around 60 to 62 degrees . I am aware that some of you find that temperature to be too cold, so I suggest you bring appropriate clothing to be able to work in the office. I also want to make it clear that: 1. While I am temporarily out of the office , nobody has permission to raise the temperature. It is extremely unconfortable for me to get back into the office feeling hot and disgusted from the subway or the street and find that the tempreture in the office is not low enough to cool me out of the disgusting heat; 2.Nobody is to open any window of any office to warm up the office. I will not put up with any opening of windows . If you don’t like the temperature in the office, I strongly suggest you find a job elsewhere.

Freeze your asses off or get a new job, associates. The decision is in your ice-cold hands.

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