http://myshingle.com/2006/02/articles/myshingle-solo/too-much-complaining-a-good-or-bad-thing/ Great Things Come in Small [Law] Practices! Thu, 10 May 2012 10:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://myshingle.com/2006/02/articles/myshingle-solo/too-much-complaining-a-good-or-bad-thing/#comment-1538 Jonathan Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:11:51 +0000 http://174.120.83.8/~sh1ngl3/446/too-much-complaining-a-good-or-bad-thing/#comment-1538 Carolyn - I think you and I are close. I don't have a problem with negativity to effect change. In other words, someone saying "I, a new attorney, am ripping off my clients by billing $250 an hour when I don't know jack" is fine. They are trying to point out the negative in order to effect change. However, I see a lot more of this whining aspect of it. In other words "The law firm model does not work" or "I am not happy at a big firm" or any one of a number of other negative comments. That is whining - negativity for the sake of being negative. I don't care for that. If these people want to bring about change, that is fine. But, they need to redirect their approach. Finally, negativity that is anonymous is just negativity. There is nothing to be gained from someone saying "I think this needs to be changed but I won't tell you who I am." BigLaw Associate, Greedy Trial Lawyer, Opinionista all fall into this category. If you think something is wrong and you want to change it, have the guts to say it and put your name on it. Otherwise, keep quiet. Jonathan Carolyn -
I think you and I are close. I don’t have a problem with negativity to effect change. In other words, someone saying “I, a new attorney, am ripping off my clients by billing $250 an hour when I don’t know jack” is fine. They are trying to point out the negative in order to effect change.
However, I see a lot more of this whining aspect of it. In other words “The law firm model does not work” or “I am not happy at a big firm” or any one of a number of other negative comments. That is whining – negativity for the sake of being negative. I don’t care for that. If these people want to bring about change, that is fine. But, they need to redirect their approach.
Finally, negativity that is anonymous is just negativity. There is nothing to be gained from someone saying “I think this needs to be changed but I won’t tell you who I am.” BigLaw Associate, Greedy Trial Lawyer, Opinionista all fall into this category. If you think something is wrong and you want to change it, have the guts to say it and put your name on it. Otherwise, keep quiet.
Jonathan

]]> http://myshingle.com/2006/02/articles/myshingle-solo/too-much-complaining-a-good-or-bad-thing/#comment-6644 Jonathan Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:11:00 +0000 http://174.120.83.8/~sh1ngl3/446/too-much-complaining-a-good-or-bad-thing/#comment-6644 Carolyn - I think you and I are close. I don't have a problem with negativity to effect change. In other words, someone saying "I, a new attorney, am ripping off my clients by billing $250 an hour when I don't know jack" is fine. They are trying to point out the negative in order to effect change. However, I see a lot more of this whining aspect of it. In other words "The law firm model does not work" or "I am not happy at a big firm" or any one of a number of other negative comments. That is whining - negativity for the sake of being negative. I don't care for that. If these people want to bring about change, that is fine. But, they need to redirect their approach. Finally, negativity that is anonymous is just negativity. There is nothing to be gained from someone saying "I think this needs to be changed but I won't tell you who I am." BigLaw Associate, Greedy Trial Lawyer, Opinionista all fall into this category. If you think something is wrong and you want to change it, have the guts to say it and put your name on it. Otherwise, keep quiet. Jonathan Carolyn -
I think you and I are close. I don’t have a problem with negativity to effect change. In other words, someone saying “I, a new attorney, am ripping off my clients by billing $250 an hour when I don’t know jack” is fine. They are trying to point out the negative in order to effect change.
However, I see a lot more of this whining aspect of it. In other words “The law firm model does not work” or “I am not happy at a big firm” or any one of a number of other negative comments. That is whining – negativity for the sake of being negative. I don’t care for that. If these people want to bring about change, that is fine. But, they need to redirect their approach.
Finally, negativity that is anonymous is just negativity. There is nothing to be gained from someone saying “I think this needs to be changed but I won’t tell you who I am.” BigLaw Associate, Greedy Trial Lawyer, Opinionista all fall into this category. If you think something is wrong and you want to change it, have the guts to say it and put your name on it. Otherwise, keep quiet.
Jonathan

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