..You think you know..
..I'm in the office and I'm pretty bored.. Just handed in the work that we finished so now I'm waiting for how well we did (or not..haha) and some new assignment(s). So for now I am tooottaalllyy bored and I can't keep on playing text twist for any longer.. my brain doesn't seem to be functioning..Luckily I brought my laptop in so I can listen to my lurvely muscic while being bored.. LOL..
So how should I start? Well, for those of you who think that lawyers are bad people, or unfeeling people, or mean and nasty people.. you're wrong.. I'm glad that I decided to work in a law firm during my holidays because I really get to see both sides to the story and my conclusion so far is that lawyers aren't the people that are inhuman or unfair - the people that actually HIRE the lawyers are the ones that are mean, greedy, inhuman and unfair.
So in my previous post I mentioned about how we went to do the re-posession of a house? Well, that whole trip really opened my eyes into the way people tend to perceive lawyers and what they do.. What happened was these 2 BROTHERS are always in dispute and the older one wants the younger one to move out of this piece of land that lawfully, belongs to the older brother. So the younger one is given months notice to move out, doesn't make an effor to move out, so upon the ruling of the court and orders of the older brother, we had to go there with the police, court bailifs, and locksmiths to "take-over" the place and change the locks and if they want to move the rest of their stuff out, they make an appointment with the court and the lawyers to then go there and retrieve the rest of their stuff.
So when we got there, it looked like they had moved out.. but upon inspecting the place we found out that their in fact still living there - illegally. And then it got dramatic.. the wife came home.. caused a big hoo-haa about it then made a few calls.. then inevitably the husband came home.. and made an eve bigger hoo-haa over the whole thing.. and what really made me realise the mistake people make when perceiving lawyers is that he came up to one of the lawyers and saying all kinds of things like "you're in human" "inconsiderate" "not compassionate" and I'm there thinking.. it's her job!! She's been ordered by YOUR brother... whether or not she accepted the case is of course up to her, but if she decided to not help her client.. I would say that's pretty incompassionate.. because someone is coming to you for help and to turn them away.. whether they are wrong or right, I would say is in some ways cold-hearted. And true, you do get good lawyers, greedy lawyers and bad lawyers, but it's all up to human characteristics... and that's just it isn't it? A profession doesn't make someone bad, or greedy or inhuman.. it's the PERSON that makes his/her profession however way they want it to be.. and it's the people bringing charges against other people.. it's the family, the friends, the banks WHOEVER... that I really consider to be the inhuman ones. So think again, before making judgements on lawyers.. or police officers.. or anyone else for that matter... I think it would be hard to try and do your job while having someone saying things to you to your face and not being able to do anything about it,.. And yea, sometimes it is the system itself that causes things to be slightly unfair or whatnot,.. but the way I see it is that if you want to change the system, you have to be IN the system.. so yea..
*phew* Anyway I think that will be all for today hehe I'm sooooo tired....!
HAHA anyway, thanks mei for the nice comic site!! hehe I think I will get daily cartoons from there hehe.. Sooo, before I go, here's a comic to brighten up your day..
Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net
..But you have NO idea..
So how should I start? Well, for those of you who think that lawyers are bad people, or unfeeling people, or mean and nasty people.. you're wrong.. I'm glad that I decided to work in a law firm during my holidays because I really get to see both sides to the story and my conclusion so far is that lawyers aren't the people that are inhuman or unfair - the people that actually HIRE the lawyers are the ones that are mean, greedy, inhuman and unfair.
So in my previous post I mentioned about how we went to do the re-posession of a house? Well, that whole trip really opened my eyes into the way people tend to perceive lawyers and what they do.. What happened was these 2 BROTHERS are always in dispute and the older one wants the younger one to move out of this piece of land that lawfully, belongs to the older brother. So the younger one is given months notice to move out, doesn't make an effor to move out, so upon the ruling of the court and orders of the older brother, we had to go there with the police, court bailifs, and locksmiths to "take-over" the place and change the locks and if they want to move the rest of their stuff out, they make an appointment with the court and the lawyers to then go there and retrieve the rest of their stuff.
So when we got there, it looked like they had moved out.. but upon inspecting the place we found out that their in fact still living there - illegally. And then it got dramatic.. the wife came home.. caused a big hoo-haa about it then made a few calls.. then inevitably the husband came home.. and made an eve bigger hoo-haa over the whole thing.. and what really made me realise the mistake people make when perceiving lawyers is that he came up to one of the lawyers and saying all kinds of things like "you're in human" "inconsiderate" "not compassionate" and I'm there thinking.. it's her job!! She's been ordered by YOUR brother... whether or not she accepted the case is of course up to her, but if she decided to not help her client.. I would say that's pretty incompassionate.. because someone is coming to you for help and to turn them away.. whether they are wrong or right, I would say is in some ways cold-hearted. And true, you do get good lawyers, greedy lawyers and bad lawyers, but it's all up to human characteristics... and that's just it isn't it? A profession doesn't make someone bad, or greedy or inhuman.. it's the PERSON that makes his/her profession however way they want it to be.. and it's the people bringing charges against other people.. it's the family, the friends, the banks WHOEVER... that I really consider to be the inhuman ones. So think again, before making judgements on lawyers.. or police officers.. or anyone else for that matter... I think it would be hard to try and do your job while having someone saying things to you to your face and not being able to do anything about it,.. And yea, sometimes it is the system itself that causes things to be slightly unfair or whatnot,.. but the way I see it is that if you want to change the system, you have to be IN the system.. so yea..
*phew* Anyway I think that will be all for today hehe I'm sooooo tired....!
HAHA anyway, thanks mei for the nice comic site!! hehe I think I will get daily cartoons from there hehe.. Sooo, before I go, here's a comic to brighten up your day..
Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net
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