Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Richard Hakluyt]

Anecdotally I can tell you that not one of them mentions the need for work life balance.   I often find myself telling them to leave the office at the end of my work day, not work weekends, and I find them coming in earlier than me.  Something no Millennial in my office has ever done.  So I am hopeful that is the case.

That is encouraging. 

No, it's depressing.

We have to remember the untold millions whose final words were ".....if only I'd spent more time in the office" 

[crazy canuck]

Or better yet, if only I had a good job - will that be a grande?

[Valmy]

Or better yet, if only I had a good job - will that be a grande?

I have to say that even with the Millennial generational reputation I am kind of impressed some hot shot lawyers would ever discuss something like "work-life balance".

[Malthus]

Or better yet, if only I had a good job - will that be a grande?

I have to say that even with the Millennial generational reputation I am kind of impressed some hot shot lawyers would ever discuss something like "work-life balance".

It's a real problem, leading to all sorts of structural problems.

To give but one example, the whole gender balance thing. Incoming associates are at par (equal numbers of men and women), but not at the partner level. A big part of the problem is that fewer women are willing to put up with a profession with no balance - many want to have children at some point, and as a generality, women are on average more invested than men in the day-to-day lives of young children.  So female associates tend, all else being equal, to be more likely to go into less time-demanding legal fields if they have kids - they work in-house for corporations or for the government.

[crazy canuck]

Or better yet, if only I had a good job - will that be a grande?

I have to say that even with the Millennial generational reputation I am kind of impressed some hot shot lawyers would ever discuss something like "work-life balance".

Your assumptions are interesting. 

[Syt]

[Maladict]

Intelligent design?

[Valmy]

God's design to test their faith?

[Tamas]

I guess Conchita Wurst above here has one point: if this horrible Sri Lanka attack was done in the developed world against a Muslim minority, "Islamophobia" would be blamed. But in this case there will be no mention of "Christanophobia".

[Admiral Yi]

I guess Conchita Wurst above here has one point: if this horrible Sri Lanka attack was done in the developed world against a Muslim minority, "Islamophobia" would be blamed. But in this case there will be no mention of "Christanophobia".

It's pretty much BS.  Crazy Australian guy specifically targeted Muslims.  Jihadis happily kill any Westerner, regardless of religion.  They didn't ask the non-Christians to leave the Madrid subway or the World Trade Center before blowing them up,

[Zoupa]

They specifically targeted churches, Yi.

[Admiral Yi]

They specifically target a lot of things and a lot of people.  Should we also start recognizing Yazidiphobia, aid worker phobia, journalistphobia, subway rider phobia, ancient Roman ruin phobia, etc., etc., etc?

[Razgovory]

They specifically target a lot of things and a lot of people.  Should we also start recognizing Yazidiphobia, aid worker phobia, journalistphobia, subway rider phobia, ancient Roman ruin phobia, etc., etc., etc?

I think we could probably do something with the hatred of the Yazidis.

[Maximus]

I guess Conchita Wurst above here has one point: if this horrible Sri Lanka attack was done in the developed world against a Muslim minority, "Islamophobia" would be blamed. But in this case there will be no mention of "Christanophobia".

Oh there are plenty of people who only get worked up about atrocities that target christians. It helps them maintain their martyr complexes.

[Duque de Bragança]

They specifically target a lot of things and a lot of people.  Should we also start recognizing Yazidiphobia, aid worker phobia, journalistphobia, subway rider phobia, ancient Roman ruin phobia, etc., etc., etc?

We should start by not using -phobia for hatred since phobia means fear.  Mis(o) or anti- work fine.