u/ChicagoFire29

Any help is appreciated. I’m starting to experience a lot of frustrations with everyone involved in this sale. I had an offer accepted in mid May and was told we’d do a typical 30 day closing - the property is a foreclosure. Unfortunately, the closing has gotten pushed back. I plan to switch jobs after closing (already disclosed to my agent and lender so no issues. Pay is the same) but I’ve had to restructure my start date a few times due to the fact that the closing had been moved. I’ve also had to ask my employer to extend my time with them even though I was supposed to be gone already. I thought we were in the clear since I got my CTC letter and was given a date. That changed again and now they’re saying it might not be for a few more weeks.

It’s just very frustrating because I’ve had to rearrange several big life decisions. I structured everything to fit the timeline I was given and now it’s all over the place. I don’t want this deal to be affected or the new job to be affected either. Super frustrating and discouraging

Hi everyone,

I am facing a unique scenario and want to know how to approach it.

I was told by my lender and agent that our closing would be in mid June. Some things got pushed back (VA bank or something like that is selling us the house) and the closing got pushed back a few weeks. For a few reasons I ended up accepting an offer on a new job with a start date well after the original closing date. I am still with my employer that I started the home buying process with. Now everything got pushed back and my start date with the new job would be the day of closing. I’m nervous because I know some lenders check employment all the way until 24 hours before closing. I’m trying to rearrange my departure date and new start date so that I’m not changing jobs until a little after closing. How should I approach this?

Pay is similar in the same field, it’s actually an employer I previously worked for that I’m returning to - the loan amount is also way less than I was approved for so I’m not nervous about that itself, I just don’t want to run into any more issues.

I’m in my last week and a half at a firm and I support 6 attorneys. I am trying to wrap up case files and leave them decently organized for the next paralegal. There’s two attorneys here who have made my life a living hell and I am very unmotivated to do anything beyond the bare minimum for their case files.

I have an attorney (baby attorney, < 1 year on the job) asking me to do some ridiculously time consuming things that simply aren’t important - like reorder a PDF of production images or combine multiple PDFs for their convenience and stuff like that. The Adobe program u have is pretty slow so it just takes way too much time. This is also one of the attorneys who has been less than kind and helpful to me. Would it be wrong if I just said no? Or told her I’ll get to it when I get to it? I’m just annoyed and this environment has not been good for my mental health (I’ve had a few breakdowns) so I have 0 motivation to stay late or take time from other cases that have outstanding tasks that actually carry priority

I feel like a huge weight is off my shoulders. I’ve dealt with an increasingly rude and uncooperative attorney as of late who made my life horrible to the point where they complained to HR about me. I submitted my resignation and before I even got a word out, our HR director stated that the knew exactly why and that I shouldn’t feel bad for protecting my peace. Apparently, HR has been trying to get this attorney let go since paralegals keep quoting bc of them, but the partners won’t budge because they’re a solid attorney.

HR told me they wish I would stay but understand, wish me the best of luck. I told them that attorney will continue to cost them good workers and eventually cases if they are not dealt with.

I have an attorney who lately just refuses to tell me what to do. I’m still newish to the role and sometimes I’ll get cryptic messages like “call the witnesses”. I’ll proceed to ask for details, the case number, etc and I’ll just get an email that says I should know (mind you there are dozens of cases this could apply to).

Often times too, that attorney will send me an email asking me forward documents or materials to an OC or witness, but there are not materials anywhere. I’ll do an AI scan of the file, a through review of every document, an an email search. There’s been a few times where they outright refuse to help or tell me what needs to be done. There have been another few occasions where the attorney has insisted something is in the file only for it not to be. I am getting very frustrated because the back and forth wastes time and the attorney won’t budge.

Just submitted my notice this week. Sometimes the pay raise isn’t worth it. I’m leaving a firm I joined a few months back because I simply cant take it anymore. My old employer contacted me right at the time I seriously considered quitting and offered me close to my current pay. I jumped on it.

Theres no senior or supervising paralegal, everyone in support within the department is new to their roles and the practice area as a whole, and the attorneys are driving me nuts - particularly one that refuses to give me any instructions and recently tattle taled to management about how the didn’t like my style of work.

im finally experiencing peace of mind. The grass is not always greener. I will def be leaving this place off of my resume

Hi all,

My main question is stated in the title. I’ll add some context.

I’ve had an attorney who for some odd reason, has become very cold toward me out of nowhere. I switched practice areas not too long ago and have been on a decent learning curve thus far. This attorney all of a sudden is not interested in answering any questions, constantly puts off things I ask them to review, doesn’t give me straight responses, etc. my biggest struggle lately w this attorney has been things not being in the file. There have been half a dozen instances in the past month where I’m told something is in the file and it’s simply not there. I check. I get a second pair of eyes. I do keyword searches. I ask our native AI assistant to scan the file and it’s simply not there. The issue here is I’m getting chewed out for not finding things that either the attorney or a previous legal assistant/paralegal did not add. Sometime these documents or emails contain info I need to move the case along. The attorney seemingly has access but outright refuses to give me the information and makes me look for it. I the communicate to them that it’s not there. It is very frustrating because no matter how much I got back and forth, they will not budge (typical). I support multiple attorneys and this is the only one that gives me these specific issues.

Any suggestions? It’s becoming really annoying to the point that I want to tell them off. Thanks.

One of the attorneys I support has been so cryptic lately in emails and tasks. I ask for clarity and can’t get a clear response. Sometimes I’m asked to find things that are legitimately not in the file. A few weeks back, they had the info I needed but the would not give it to me until I sent a screenshot showing that our AI assistant did a scan and couldn’t find the info either. Today I’m running into an issue. Trying to decipher lawyer talk in emails chains I was never apart of, and then not getting help when I ask. I’m so over this. I don’t wanna damage my relationship with an attorney I work for but I’m so close to just telling them to be straight forward with me. It saves everyone time. I’m at my Whitt’s End

Lately I’ve had an attorney who’s been giving me a touch time about the way things are saved to files. I’ve had a few encounters where something is saved and they can’t find, so I have to take extra time to walk them through (and it ends up being exactly where I was told to put it)

Today I had an attorney send me a snarky email about how emails and docs are added to files once again. The case was reassigned a long time ago. I did one thing for the case and handed it off after a previous paralegal unexpectedly had to resign. The new paralegal’s name is all over the file, on the vitals, etc. I added something that came through to me and tagged them. I got a long email about how to work on this case and advised the attorney that the case isn’t even mine anymore. I did a favor by forwarding that as opposed to letting it sit.

It happens somewhat often as well. I don’t understand why attorneys can’t just take an extra 10 seconds to click around and confirm who is handling a file before making accusatory remarks. For people that preach paying attention to detail and going slow to avoid errors, they sure make alot of them.

My wife and I recently welcomed our first child. I have been a staunch socialist for quite some time, and have recently moved closer to an ML stance (beside the point)

With an ever growing number of fascist, content, creators, media personalities, and influencers, I realized it is very easy for young people, particularly young men, to get sucked down the alt right pipeline. I have realized that as a father, I will have a responsibility to shield my son from all of this. I realized the only effective way as a society that we can combat this is through socialism. It is the way forward. Aside from being a pragmatic means to a more equitable world, it gives us a practical way to learn how to treat others with respect, fighting against the evils of imperialism and exploitation, and seek the liberation of oppressed peoples.

After being online for some time, I’ve noticed that there’s almost more Anti-left wing propaganda now than it seems there was during the Cold War. Back then, most people were scared of communist party led countries, but they couldn’t actually articulate why. Today, millions online spread false data or rhetoric and it’s becoming frustrating to see.

Here’s a few points I’ve seen circulating online

1. The Bolsheviks killed 60 million Christians.
   - The population of Russia in 1917 was between 120-160 Million. Do these people realize how impossible it would’ve been to murder almost half of the entire population? These figure come from the Black Book of Communism with 0 sources for them. They’re made up of

2. Socialism and Communism are Jewish ploys from Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin who were Jews
   - There is nothing wrong with the Jewish identity and I’m tired of fascists acting like being Jewish automatically disqualifies you from living life a contributing. But Marx was a baptized Protestant who later became an atheist and was not fond of the Jewish identity at all. Lenin had one Jewish great grandparent who he did not even know was Jewish during his lifetime. People like to point this out as if it’s some sort of “gotcha”

3. Leon Trotsky invented the term “racist”
   - I don’t even know where this came from. At least for the first myth, there’s a source (albeit, a completely garbage and made up one). For this, it seems someone said it once and other people started regurgitating it. The term was coined in the USA in 1902. And even if Trotsky coined it, what does that prove?

Anyways, hopefully people who are curious about socialism and communism can read this at some point to dispel any ideas they may have had that weren’t grounded in reality.

Hi everyone, not sure where to ask so I’m asking here.

My wife is 2 weeks postpartum and was using these wipes for herself. On 05/31/26 I had to rush her to the hospital and she was diagnoses with sepsis. The issue here is that they were a gift at a baby shower so I don’t have a receipt. I can probably track down who gave it to us but odds they have a receipt are low.

Does anyone know how I can reach out to target to document this, as well as return them?

Another question - is anyone aware on if this will spike a Mass Tort in the U.S.? I wanna document everything because she was not doing well and is still in bed rest at home.

I was thinking about interstellar travel and how friends desire to expand out and learn more about the universe. As I’ve become intrigued by astrophysics, astrobiology, and astronomy as a whole, I have realized that humans may never fully reach one civilization status unless capitalism is completely eradicated.

Let me preface the rest of this by saying I’ve been a vehement ML for some time now after learning about socialism years back. I’m not here to debate to practicality of one faction over another, but to discuss how space travel and exploration can become reality through a socialist lens.

On the Kardashev Scale, a Type 1 Civilization is one that possess the capability to control all energy sources on its home world. That would mean not only controlling all fuel sources, but also controlling solar energy harnessed, the weather, natural events, volcanos, etc. Earth is estimated to be at around 0.73, and estimates of when earth can achieve Type 1 Status will range from 100 years to 1,000 years. Either way, we aren’t that far from this, relatively speaking.

The issue with this is that under a primarily capitalist world, we cannot achieve Type 1 status since it effectively requires the entirety of the planet to be working together is some form of unity with regard to energy. In a world dominated by the interests of the bourgeoise, anything related to energy with the end goal of further space travel would be linked to potential monetary gain as opposed to pursuing a venture for the sheer goal of furthering humanity’s legacy in the cosmos.

Under a transitionary socialist phase or in a communist world, the elimination of class - or at the very least the exploitation of the working class - would allow humanity to working better toward this goal. That would also usher in an age in which humanity could continue working toward bigger goals that are ultimately impossible under capitalism due to exploitation and greed. The ruling class would simply seek control of earth bound energy sources for capital gain, not for the betterment of humanity. This has proven true time and time again since capitalism enables and rewards such behavior.

I think with all of the hypothetical discussions about AI and other tech, it’s very important to have dialogues about astronomical ventures since it seems that humanity is on the horizon of several breakthroughs in the next few decades. These are just my thoughts, feel free to chime in, expand on, or disagree with my rhetoric.