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People Anatomy™
A spotter’s guide to the men and women of finance.
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Little basil fotherington-tomas before he is turned.
You will hear, every now and then, an anguished howl will yammer across LinkedIn emanating from some well-meaning thought leader or other — or some times posted anonymously by a self -organising autonomous collective of juniors — on the topic of working conditions for young commercial lawyers.
“It cannot be right,” they wail, “in our enlightened times, to torture out younglings so. They are not up to it. It will crush them. We must be humane.”
There will then follow a long and tiring diatribe about the fragile mental health of the junior bar, culminating in robust accord agreement that we must at every opportunity, speak loudly and at tedious length about our own mental health.
The JC will spare you his usual Nietzschean quotes about military life, though they are apposite: a good old “shoeing” at the bottom of the ruck every now and then is just what a young attorney needs. It does the resilience a power of good.