You have GOT to be kidding

I was awake quite early this morning (3:00 am) and decided to turn on CNN as nothing else was boring enough to put me back to sleep. As I was just nodding off, I came fully awake when I heard the following story:

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3119381&page=1

What is the United States coming to? It is my firm opinion that lawyers/judges (I heard on CNN he was a judge) such as this give the legal professionals their horrible reputations. How selfish can this man be?

I think every client of that dry cleaner should counter sue the lawyer/judge for the same amount because closing down that drycleaner will in turn make THEM need to rent a car, spend money on gas, find a new cleaner, etc. Imagine if a thousand customers did that.

What goes around should come around!

Imus is sueing...surprise, surprise.

I just heard the news. What happened to the days when you were fired and that was it, period? Lawyers have truly mucked up the system and that is why we keep people in positions that they shouldn't have. We are afraid of the ramifications of law suits. Mediocrity abounds because of this!

When I worked for the American Embassy, we had an Ambassador that warned against angering a secretary of African-American decent. We were told not to make waves because she could, in turn, sue. She didn't do her job, she made the most embarrassing mistakes constantly and she was ignorant and socially unacceptable, (and the WORSE secretary ever) but our hands were tied. One needed months, if not years of documentation in order to take action. The Ambassador said "if you want to keep your job and get tenure, this is the age to be an older, black woman...no one's going to mess with you if you've those credentials! You can win suits against discrimination of color and sex and age in a heart-beat."

What happened to just working hard and doing a good job? Is it all about just finding the right angle and sticking it to whomever because you have yourself a lawyer?