Law Firm Halloween Party ( 2010 )

[Paslode]

I got the jest of the parody. I consider it in poor taste and did not find the humor in it because their are a few folks who honestly don't have the means or where with all.

And secondly, there is a member of my ex-wifes family who has no issue making a nice commission selling mortgages to people he knows from the git-go cannot afford what they are signing up for. As he said, We know 60% of them are going to fail....he is like a drug dealer.......our tax dollars helped pay for the new 850k house.

But all in all Eagle is correct.

[Streck-Fu]

If there is fire where there is smoke, then their costumes and decorations are in poor taste indeed.

These pictures are hardly the first piece of evidence that the Baum firm treats homeowners shabbily — or that it uses dubious legal practices to do so. It is under investigation by the New York attorney general, Eric Schneiderman. It recently agreed to pay $2 million to resolve an investigation by the Department of Justice into whether the firm had “filed misleading pleadings, affidavits, and mortgage assignments in the state and federal courts in New York.” (In the press release announcing the settlement, Baum acknowledged only that “it occasionally made inadvertent errors.”)

[Pete]

Hmm, an SF Halloween party.

I'm sure if I held one a number of the outfits would be very un-PC.

And - since I'm not a touchy feely person - if somebody jumped out of the back of a truck and broke their leg I'd laugh and say "Dumbass". And the 18D that came over would probably offer similar insight..............well, maybe not.

And as for the office party? It was an office party - I'm sure none of the people they were calling were invited. If they were then I'd say it was in poor taste.

[ZonieDiver]

Do the party's costumes reflect poor taste? Yes, they do.
Does that poor taste have anything to do with not following the law? No, it doesn't.

The people dressing in those costumes are, in my estimation, the "front-line" employees doing the "grunt" work in a very unpleasant business that can be very stressful for those doing it. Many of those costumed employees probably have a great deal of empathy for some of those they deal with on a regular basis.

They don't make the rules about which forms to fill out or not fill out. They may not be in the "form" part of the business. Sometimes, people who have stressful jobs party in inappropriate ways to release the frustratiions of said job. I don't fault the people in the pictures for poor taste. Hell, deviate that I am, I found some of it funny!

But then, I once had a job "dialing for dollars" for Chase Bank credit cards. Spend some time working an autodialer 8 hours a day, in front of a computer screen that often puts up the account information about 2-3 seconds AFTER the phone is answered, trying to get money out of people who may have horribly sad stories (many do), or are simply over-extented scammers (many are), and you might be able to see those employees' need to release stress in such a way.

Rail against the company and its officers and decision-makers all you wish, but don't pick on the front-line employees, please.

[AngelsSix]

Much ado about nothing. I believe I heard one of the esteemed gentlemen here say that before, certainly it is not original.

HOWEVER.

People are dumb, do dumb things and then want everyone to feel sorry for them. I think it's nice for some of these people to have their garbage thrown back in their faces once in a while. More people in this country need to stand the f@ck up and tell the worthless a-holes that are acting like a-holes to well, f@ck off.

Fill out a hurt feelings report and submit it. That's what the rest of the sheep are doing these days....

[Buffalobob]

Foreclosure Law Firm That Mocked Victims Closing


http://abcnews.go.com/Business/york-...2#.TtAm_FY4dip

I imagine the upper management of the firm took care of themselves before closing the firm.

[Wiseman]

Originally Posted by Buffalobob

I imagine the upper management of the firm took care of themselves before closing the firm.

I wouldn't be surprised. Oh well, the rest can adopt their costumes as formal wear...tough market for lawyers now.