This morning, just by coincidence, two people I follow on Twitter had very similar experiences while commuting on the train. Both saw a fellow passenger working on a laptop. We’ll omit the names to protect the guilty, but the laptop-jockeys were lawyers, one of them at a famous magic circle firm. The details of their clients and the matters they were working on were clearly visible to their fellow passengers.
This sparked a light-hearted debate on Twitter about work/life balance. Workaholic lawyers are using their train journeys to finish off those crucial PowerPoint presentations. The phrase ‘get a life’ was used. But what went through my mind was ‘get a grip’. There are serious issues involved.
