LOL What you call ‘rudeness’ is what got me where I am today. I am a partner at a big firm making over $650,000 a year. I’ll somehow survive if ‘several others’ won’t be coming back to the 4.0 team. To be honest, I don’t care whether there is a 4.0 team at all. I am perfectly happy with the 3.5 team and my players on that team.
— A Los Angeles-based litigation partner at an Am Law 100 firm, explaining during a long and heated email chain about women’s league tennis that her supposed “rudeness” is the secret to her success — and big salary.
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