[JoeRedskin]

Okay. I have:
- 3 substantive motions due Tuesday, May 27th (A motion to dismiss, a motion for summary judgment, and a motion for injunctive relief - all in Federal Court);
- A Response due on June 3rd in a Privilege Log dispute in case with over 5,000 pages of discovery and over 100 Privilege Log entries.
- Two depositions in the next two days and four more on June 10, 11 (and meeting with clients on June 9 to prep them for their depos - the June depos involve Federal discrimination claims and have produced 10K pages of documents);
- To top it all off, I have two-week trial beginning June 16th (unrelated to any of the above).

It's a sh** ton of work in a very short time. Hard work is fine, it's a challenge. I fully intend to come out victorious in everything at issue. Game on man. The work is not what's grinding my gears ...

I have spent only three hours today (I got into the office at 7:00 a.m. and am still here) doing MY work BECAUSE at 8:30 with the first mail delivery an Order comes from one of circuit courts saying that, because one of the attorneys I supervise failed to respond, he is now compelled to provide certain discovery information within 10 days AND the court indicates it will permit an order of attorney fees against the State based on the bad faith of this attorney.

I had specifically reviewed his (three) cases with him last Friday and he never mentioned the Motion to Compel. Because it was apparently hand delivered to him, the only way I could have know was to do a desk audit in the midst of my trial last month. I call the attorney (who was taking leave) and tell him he needs to deal with ASAP and that I need the Answers on my desk by Tuesday noon. Period. He comes into the office and, I guess, gets to work.

All of that's bad and caused me to spend most of my day in conferences with bosses, reviewing his case, and drafting "memos to file." However, I wanted a management position. I understand it means you do your work AND have to make room for oversight issues that can pop up anytime. It's not the need to manage a bad situation that's grinding my gears ...

HOWEVER --- At 6:30, with my desk - quite literally - piled with deposition transcripts and evidence binders that I need to draft one of the several motions I have currently pending, the SOB comes into my office and starts arguing with me about how he should respond. He has three f'ing active cases. None with any pending deadlines except for the one in which he has a JUDGE'S ORDER COMPELLING HIM TO FILE FULL, FORMAL RESPONSES IN 10 M'FING DAYS. Holy Crap!! Just do the f'ing work and stop looking for goddamn short cuts. It's why the Order was entered in the first f'ing place!

After wasting 30 minutes of my post 5:30 time (any after hours worked is carefully tucked away as time lost from my family), I finally said to him "Just draft the damn answers and have on my desk by Thursday noon - and no, you cannot just refer to certain documents."

Consider my gears f'ing ground.