Enough on the bills!
Mar. 20th, 2006 02:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sparkindarknessOk, every last damn one of you – stop bitching about the bill! All of you, just STOP IT! A severe hounding to the next person who bitches. ESPECIALLY those of you on legal aid who don’t have to pay a penny (which isn’t true of all legal aid or of legal help) – you’re not even PAYING it and you bitch about the bill?! I’m applying a haddock surcharge for that one.
I told you how much we will charge per hour. Every single time I told you. I confirmed it in writing. I couldn’t have been clearer if I had had the hounds gnaw the words into your bones. Throughout the case I told you how much we were spending and had spent to date. You knew every single penny that was spent, you know why and how and when and knew then. You even knew when I told you that your own stupidity would cost you more money. I have told you how to appeal and who to appeal to if you think our fees are excessive, it won’t get you anywhere – we have an extremely good record for fair fees. There, you have an official channel for official bitching. Go bitch officially or I’m going to start billing you extra for bitching time.
And nice lady in the oh-so-tight and oh-so-low-cut blouse who kept asking “can’t you lower it a little, just for little me?” then leaning over – rinse and repeat until there was very real danger of her falling over or falling out. Nice try, but you’re seriously barking up the wrong tree. Have a feminist Hound though for your troubles. And don’t get sulky because I didn’t break eye contact – your ego can’t be that fragile.
Is it expensive people? Well DUH. It’s a LAWYER’S office, what did you expect? Why do you think I do this job? Why do you think we went to college and university and law school and then into training for year upon expensive year? For the joy of tolerating inanities every morning? For your sweet disposition? No, I do it because it is interesting and very well paid, thank you. When you go spend several years of your life getting (well, failing) those qualifications, THEN you can say we’re overpaid. Until then you will se we charge exactly the same amount as just about every other firm in the city. Continue to bitch and we will gather together in our expensive suits and laugh at you.
I told you how much we will charge per hour. Every single time I told you. I confirmed it in writing. I couldn’t have been clearer if I had had the hounds gnaw the words into your bones. Throughout the case I told you how much we were spending and had spent to date. You knew every single penny that was spent, you know why and how and when and knew then. You even knew when I told you that your own stupidity would cost you more money. I have told you how to appeal and who to appeal to if you think our fees are excessive, it won’t get you anywhere – we have an extremely good record for fair fees. There, you have an official channel for official bitching. Go bitch officially or I’m going to start billing you extra for bitching time.
And nice lady in the oh-so-tight and oh-so-low-cut blouse who kept asking “can’t you lower it a little, just for little me?” then leaning over – rinse and repeat until there was very real danger of her falling over or falling out. Nice try, but you’re seriously barking up the wrong tree. Have a feminist Hound though for your troubles. And don’t get sulky because I didn’t break eye contact – your ego can’t be that fragile.
Is it expensive people? Well DUH. It’s a LAWYER’S office, what did you expect? Why do you think I do this job? Why do you think we went to college and university and law school and then into training for year upon expensive year? For the joy of tolerating inanities every morning? For your sweet disposition? No, I do it because it is interesting and very well paid, thank you. When you go spend several years of your life getting (well, failing) those qualifications, THEN you can say we’re overpaid. Until then you will se we charge exactly the same amount as just about every other firm in the city. Continue to bitch and we will gather together in our expensive suits and laugh at you.
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Date: 2006-03-20 06:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-21 10:47 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-03-21 10:10 am (UTC)::goes away satisfied::
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Date: 2006-03-21 10:47 am (UTC)LOL, I actually had a colleague who had a client who did that. They knew exactly what they wanted and what they wanted to do and were consulting a lawyer for appearances only. They came in, listened for about 10 minutes, said "consider yourself consulted" then left, never to be seen again :)
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Date: 2006-03-21 08:04 pm (UTC)That's why I haven't actually consulted a lawyer yet I can't afford it! Might have to try the community law centre and see if that's any help to me.
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Date: 2006-03-22 10:14 am (UTC)