Staying Home With the Flu

Posted By Cliff Tuttle | November 18, 2009

Posted by Cliff Tuttle (c) 2009

SUMMARY: Go to work with the flu and you may be in big trouble; stay home and you will be in big trouble.

One associate at K&L Gates ended up on the managing partner’s list, the kind of list that may be terminal. Yes, he came to work with flu-like symptoms, despite a memo explicitly directing K&L G people to stay home. Then he spent two days in meetings, including with a pregnant mother.

Of course, as everyone who has ever worked in a law firm as an associate knows, there is probably another side to the story. A directive to stay home from the commanding general in far-off Seattle (or someplace like that) may not have the immediacy of the orders shouted from the next office in Pittsburgh.

Still, with a little planning, you could probably have arranged to bill 10 or 12 hours that day from your computer at home, couldn’t you?

Couldn’t you?

CLT

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