Dear Anonymous Woman at Paul Hastings Law Firm
Dear Anonymous Woman at Paul Hastings Law Firm,
You’re incredible. You’re a hero.
You took what would be four years of my cost of living (I know, I know, it’s not the same amount of money for you, but still) — three years of my cost of living with more vacations and meals out — and gave it up to change the world.
I mean really change the world. Not in the butterfly-flaps-its-wings yadda yadda cyclone elsewhere way. More like the butterfly stares the tyrant in the eye and flaps out an immediate storm complete with lightning and category four winds.
Sure, I know $60-70,000 isn’t the same for an attorney as it is for a chronically underemployed writer. I know she’s gambling on what will probably happen, which she has a better shot at than most, being an attorney: which is winning the sex discrimination lawsuit and making that lost money back.
And sure, it was stupid: if I were a powerful law firm that wanted to keep running things without regard to the employment laws passed in the last forty years, I’d have offered someone I screwed over in this fashion at least a million if I wanted a fighting chance at shutting them up.
But even granting lack of altruism on the part of Ms. Anonymous, and lack of competence on the part of the tyrant, I’m still rooting for the girl with the slingshot.