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- Boden – 20% off
- Brooks Brothers – Extra 25% off clearance
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- Rothy's – End of season sale, up to 50% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear in the big sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 25% off regular-price purchase; 70% off clearance
- White House Black Market – Up to 70% off sale
Anonymous
does anyone have a good recipe for a high-protein cookie or bar for mornings? preferably 15+ grams of protein per serving and under 400 calories… bonus if it has lots of fiber! thank you!
Peloton
Check the Featherstone Nutrition website for snack recipes. I plan to make the monster cookie energy balls this week, but haven’t made them yet.
Anonymous
Pinch of Yum blueberry banana breakfast cookies. I double the flour and baking soda.
Run Fast, Cook Slow sweet potato breakfast cookies.
Vicky Austin
Genuine question, what does doubling the flour and baking soda do? Wouldn’t that throw off your proportions?
Anonymous
I found that the cookies were too gummy because the original recipe contained too much banana and peanut butter for the amount of flour. I doubled the flour and also doubled the baking soda to keep the ratio of flour to baking soda constant. The cookies still rise properly and have a better texture. With a more traditional cookie recipe you probably wouldn’t be able to tweak just a couple of ingredients without throwing the whole thing off, but these are not so much cookies as a bunch of peanut butter and banana held together with a little flour.
anon
Your request made me think of the Lenny & Larry’s cookie.
It is made with plant based proteins.
16g protein for whole cookie
420 calories for whole cookie
10g fiber per whole cookie
This website claims to have a recipe for a dupe.
I haven’t tried it yet.
https://www.modernhoney.com/lenny-larrys-protein-cookie-copycat/
Anon
I need to retrain my eye for what looks current for 2024. I need specific help with what looks good for in-office looks as well for meeting clients in more suburban locations for lunch or coffee. In either case, many people around you may be very casual, bordering on sloppy, but you need to have an elevated look that conveys judgment, skill, and experience (in a good way, so not looking like a 25YO newbie or person unfamiliar with the working world).
I’m trying to shop my closet vs just keep buying things, especially where I don’t know what I’m doing and half of the stuff in stores is either cropped tops or cropped bottoms more geared to warm weather or much younger people or non-work outings.
If there is someone on Insta to watch, happy to do that also.
Anonymous
I’ve heard there is a website that posts current work looks for women daily, at different price points throughout the week,,and also includes regular features on suits, office footwear and other workwear accessories. The message board attached gets wildly off-topic, though!
Senior Attorney
*snort*
Anonymous
Do you know what it’s called? I’m looking for a good fashion blog…
Anonymous
I think the looks here are standard and totally appropriate for work but I would describe them as fashion forward or current
Hannah Brown just did a series on this on TikTok that was good
Still confused
lol. Read here all the time and still have no idea what to put on my body. The days when I wore a two piece matchy suit 4-5 days a week were so much easier! On any given day, I might be in court, at the jail, visiting a witness or taking depositions, or working from home. Oh, I looked up “lady jacket” the other day after it was discussed here. Those little jackets look terrible and frumpy on my petite pear shaped middle aged body.
anon
Cap Hill Style has some helpful outfit posts.
AIMS
For the situation you describe I find shoes make a big impact. So blazer, pants and sneakers or funkier loafers/boots will look more current and also fit into a more casual situation.
Anon
I hear you but posting an item in isolation isn’t where I struggle. It’s putting all of the pieces together.
Anon
This is me.
NYNY
So this is totally a know-yourself answer, because shopping is my recon for this sort of thing. I identify brands that align with the image I want to project, and then I spend time window-shopping their webs!tes to take in the vibe. I’m naturally a bit of a minimalist, so I’m not super-tempted to spend money when I do this, but I might identify a piece or two that fill holes and work with the rest of what I wear.
Post-pandemic, I’ve shifted from skirts/dresses to more pants and from pumps & ankle boots to low block-heel loafers and lug soles. Today I’m in my biz-caz office and wearing navy cropped wide-leg trousers, a black boatneck lightweight sweater, a chunky silver chain necklace, black socks (visible, since my pants are cropped), and black lug sole wingtip oxfords. I’m comfortable and have gotten a ton of compliments. And no way would I have worn this in 2019.
SC
If I were you, I would pay someone to come over and do a closet refresh or whatever they call it, and then maybe take you shopping. If you’re like me, you need help with the “third piece” or the pulling together something intentional that makes you stand out in a good way. I am really good at buying pretty pieces, but less good at understanding how to wear them.
however, one thing that helps me is remembering that I buy these pretty things to WEAR…and I should stop saving them for a special occasion.
anon
Hear me out, watch the Devil Wears Prada again. Nearly everything Miranda Priestly wears is considered timeless, and would be current today. That’s probably the look that you are looking for. – nice pants, nice shirt/sweater, great hair More current, I tend to find that most stuff at Sezane fits the bill for my elder millennial self.
Anonymous
I like the Devil Wears Prada recommendation…
Anon
That poster must have been an under-bridge dweller, because “great hair” hahaha
I LOVE that movie, but no
Anon
Random question on dressing in 2024. I had long thought that DVF was timeless for work and events like drinks somewhere fancy. The wrap styles didn’t work for me but others did and I liked how silk jersey didn’t really wrinkle. I bought maybe 1-2 dresses a year, often second hand once I knew my styles and sizes. Now . . . IDK but I feel like I’m styling them all wrong. And yet when I click around on department stores or the DVF insta, I can’t always see how they are styled or they have bare legs and heeled sandals, definitely not my usual winter pairings with anything. Somehow COVID wrecked my ability to dress myself if the outfit isn’t athleisure (there, I have an A game now whereas I used to just rock free t-shirts with words on them).
Cat
they’ll come back, but dresses (as someone on the am thread noted) just don’t feel particularly current this year. Try some wide-legged pants with flats and a slim sweater or blouse. My JCrew Tippis still look good – just with a delicate necklace, flared pants and pointed-toe flats, rather than a colorful necklace, pencil skirt and peep-toe heels.
anon
+1 – I think DVF wraps are not really having their moment. I have been doing straight pants with a tucked in button down and flats/low heels, and am looking to purchase some wide leg pants that are not too wide leg as well.
Anon
I will say that I hardly see anyone wearing dresses in the winter these days.
Anon
I will say that I hardly see anyone wearing dresses in the winter these days.
anon
I am a different anon than the last two posters and all i can say is you’re not alone. No one knows what to wear these days. My office tends to the corporette and moderate price point (think macys calvin klein blazers and separates and loft). There is literally no one who I think dresses with any particular pizazz and I am including myself in that. I don’t even know where to start. I basically wear pants and a sweater with loafers if its not freezing or boots when it is. so dull.
Anon
That’s pretty much my uniform too, to make it a bit more current I do:
-wide leg, high rise pants
-sweater tucked in
-belt
-pointy-toe shoes
-chunky huggie earrings
Anon
Pointy-toe flats? Kitten heels? I see a lot of very young co-workers wearing sling backs but they are so cranky and never stay I. My narrow heels (down side of duck feet).
My Covid vibe was REI, which does not work for the East Coast cities as a look. Maybe I belong in Portland?
Anon
CLANKY! Not cranky.
Anon
I wear pointy-toe loafers or boots. I hate kitten heels or slingbacks.
anon
see this is what i was posting about this morning, a sort of yellow gold chunky huggie…. also the return of the belt is complicating matters.
anonanon
Agree that it’s a weird time. Add in a new job and perimenopausal body changes and I’m adrift.
What I’ve been doing is deliberately making note of outfits I see and like – mainly on social media. I check my closet for pieces that would work for it, and then add the missing pieces to a running list.
Right now my list includes:
– soft wide-leg pants
– cropped black wide-leg pants
– slouchy black blazer
– wide-leg jeans
– oversized striped bu tton up top
Still wearing mostly chelsea boots and lug-sole loafers, so I’m good on shoes. I also need a “funeral dress” but that’s more straighforward.
Agurk
any favorite soft wide leg pants? I feel like everyone is talking about them but they’re impossible to actually find.
anon
There is a popular pair mentioned frequently on this site from (gulp…) Old Navy! Pull on, stretch, good choice of colors. Wide legged, slightly cropped and work with a lot of different shoes styles.
I have two pairs. Senior Attorney recommended. She was right.
Runcible Spoon
WHICH Old Navy pull-on stretch wide leg pants?
Anonanon
I am still looking :) But I know a poster has shared that they like a pair of wide-leg pants from Roxy.
anon
You’ve pretty much described my office. These days, I’d describe my look as extremely basic because I hate everything else, lol.
Anon
I hate everything, fashion-wise, too, and I totally feel you on there being no one who dresses with pizazz in my office – personally, there really are very few people I encounter who I would consider my fashion peers (women who are close to my age and comparable in rank) in my workplace, so I’ve decided to find that freeing. Who cares what is in style, if there’s no one to really compare to?
I’m wearing a dress and black tights and block heels today (the exact same outfit I think someone on the morning thread said was out), and it’s fine. I’m fine.
anon
I hear you. I wear a dress and black tights almost every day (sometimes gray). I’ll keep the tights thing going until about May 1.
Pants will never be the answer for my menopausal pouch.
Runcible Spoon
Me too — I wore a patterned stretch knit faux-wrap dress with a cropped cardigan and black tights and chunky heeled loafer-type shoes today. Comfortable, presentable. Nobody else cares.
Anonymous
+1 – trends move so quickly these days!
Anokha
Speaking of not knowing what to wear… in my 40s and going to a bachelorette party in Philly. The agenda involves going to a club, which I haven’t done in ages. What on earth do I wear?!
anon
no joke, what you used to wear in college. boot cut jeans and a going out shirt. maybe a leather jacket? i
Anon
Boot cut jeans and what footwear? I am used to club wear also including an eye full of visible thing underwear and lower-back tattoos. But what on the feet in 2024?
anon
if you can wear heels maybe a strappy shoe. boots. if you’re super jiggy the kids wear fancy sneakers but it’s not a look i love on the mature woman though very cute on bat mitzah girls.
Anon
Everyone wears sneakers for going out these days IMO!
Anokha
Also: Bloomingdales, Anthropologie… any others? 20 something me shopped at Bebe and Forever 21. Express?
Anon
Does anyone have experience getting from Ft. Lee, NJ into Manhattan? I will be going into NYC (specifically Columbia University) and can stay at a friend’s condo (2nd home) in Ft. Lee. It looks like there are busses to Port Authority, but I am wondering if there are more direct options.
anon
there are buses into a bus terminal at the george washington bridge (so you basically just come across the bridge) and then can get on the 1 which will take you right to 116 and columbia. proabably easier. you are going 82 blocks out of your way twice to go into port authority.
NYNY
nb the bus station at 175th street is also called Port Authority
Anon
Car driver but isn’t that the Chris Christie era drama about snarling traffic over the GWB into the city from Fort Lee? Columbia is just on the other side of the bridge. IIRC it should be a straight shot east so not sure why you’d go so far south to port authority to head north again.
NYNY
Columbia Medical Center is right across the bridge from Fort Lee, but the main university campus is on 116th street.
I used to have a job in Fort Lee, and my employer provided shuttle service across the bridge. When there were shuttle issues, I learned to take the jitneys – sketchy vans – across the bridge. Even worse, sometimes drivers would pick up people waiting at the jitney stops so they could get the carpool discount. I only hopped in strangers’ cars when I was with someone else, but still, it feel crazy to say it at all!
Anokha
I would explore Uber/Lyft. Depending on the time of day, it might be surprisingly cost effective.
Anon
+1 or car service, which always seems to be competitive with Uber/Lyft pricing in the NYC area.
Anon
It depends how many times they’re going into the city – it may be affordable for a day, but not for a weeklong seminar or a month long class.
anonymous
Google says it’s a $40 trip. Personally I’d say $80/day is a bargain for staying in NYC and I wouldn’t hassle the bus.
Anonymous
The 158 bus goes from Fort Lee to Port Authority and then you can catch the express subway uptown. Rideshare is going to be money just for the tolls alone and they don’t usually like crossing state lines. There is also a ferry that goes from Edgewater to the Manhattan ferry terminal. But I take the 158 for work and it’s easiest IMO (and definitely cheapest).
Anon
Random q. I just had a doctor’s office push to have me send an Rx to a certain pharmacy vs my CVS. It felt really weird. She said that the prior authorization via CVS would “take more time” because “we’re days behind in paperwork” and if I went the CVS route the woman said “I’ll just make a note to get it done sooner than later but we’ll see what happens” re: timing, said very flippantly. The alternative is to use a pharmacy she named (it is mail order) ad it would be done immediately.
I can’t actually start taking this medication for another 2 weeks so timing isn’t important but that felt really weird…? I should have asked if they get a kick back for using that pharmacy. It wasn’t like the prior authorization takes days upon days, but the CVS-related delay is because they just wouldn’t prioritize the Rx because I used CVS.
Is this a thing? Should I not feel like that was odd? I have no loyalty to CVS, to be clear – my local one is good and easy to use/access, but the way she was pushing is what made me want to just not be agreeable with her.
Anon
Do you have United Healthcare and was the p pharmacy Optum?
OP
Nope, she said it had nothing to do with my insurance. And it was just tretinoin. No discounts for going to that pharmacy.
NYNY
Is it a 90-day supply of a medication that you’ll take on an ongoing basis? If so, it’s likely that your insurance requires her to use the mail order pharmacy. Similarly, if it’s an expensive medication, most insurance carriers are contracted with specific specialty pharmacies. Your doctor may be able to go around the mail order or specialty pharmacy requirements, but it takes a lot of paperwork and phone calls on her part, all unreimbursed by insurance. I promise you that the margins on pharmaceuticals are not big enough for kickbacks.
Anon
If it was a kickback thing, it would be a flagrant violation of Anti-Kickback Statute. What I’ve been seeing a lot is insurance companies setting tiers and “preferred pharmacy providers”, a lot of them doing mail-order, to reduce their cost. They don’t necessarily prohibit to going to CVS, but they might put a lot more hard stop. Nowadays, the electronic medical record will point that out. It’s not great to push this back on the patient but prior auth are a real PITA. You should take a look at your coverage documentation.
Anon
This. But what the medical office staff member should have said is, “On your insurance, you will pay X at CVS and 1/2X at the mail order. Where do you prefer I send it?”
AIMS
This. I get tritinoin thru a delivery pharmacy and it costs nothing and they bring it to my door, but if I use a Duane Reade/Walgreens nearby it’s $240 out of pocket even with insurance. I don’t know why but it’s the reason my doctor sends it to the other pharmacy. I also generally avoid the DR pharmacy because they are overworked and take forever even on time sensitive information so this works for me (I usually use a mom and pop place nearby except for the retin a cream ).
Anon
Honestly, no, I don’t think it’s that weird. We’ve made our health care systems so complicated that it’s not surprising when situations like this pop up.
Anon
Yes it is a thing. It is bad, but not odd. It’s not illegal, but my understanding it is that it is because of a deal struck between your payor and a mail order pharmacy, or sometimes vertical integration where the mail order pharmacy is somehow owned by your your payor.
It gets really fun when the deal is between the payor and specific pharmaceutical companies, and there is extra paperwork for some meds vs. others!
Anonymous
there was just a story today or yesterday in the NYT about why you can’t find ozempic, and they were saying that pharamcists are losing massive money on it because of some screwy thing with our dumb insurance system where there’s a middle person who “pays” the pharmacist for selling it, and what they’re paying is a lot cheaper than what it costs to buy it… maybe it’s something like that?
AnonMD
No idea about this particular situation but CVS has been notably horrendous lately. Like, my staff is on hold for hours, PAs are getting screwed up all the time etc kind of horrendous. It’s gotten to a point where I certainly wouldn’t blame another physician if they were pushing easier to deal with pharmacies and warning patients the office would contact CVS when they get a chance.
Anon
This is so not ok. The insurance companies are practicing medicine by controlling what can be dispensed in a reasonable amount of time (which is their goal), whether or not it’s best for the patient, and our health care system lets them get away with it.
Anon
There are mail order pharmacies that actually help with getting the prior authorization from the insurance company, rather than push that off on overworked medical office staff. This sounds like a much more likely situation than a kickback of some sort. Prior authorizations are out of control.
First time supervising
I’m supervising a first-year associate on a low-stakes matter. She sent me a draft brief and the writing quality was abysmal: typos, grammatical errors, weird margins, etc. My initial reaction was, frankly, shock that she would consider the document presentable to a supervisor or anywhere near ready to file in court. (Made me feel old, too, because I can’t imagine that I would ever have delivered something this unpolished when I was in her position back in the day.)
How can I address this with her tactfully? When we talked about the matter in person, she had a perfect grasp of the issues and offered perfectly fine ideas for the client’s legal strategy going forward. I’m not worried about her legal education or her analytical skills. Her writing, though!
Anon
Watching this, because I don’t know whether the kind thing (assume she skipped the “turn my vernacular into formal writing” step in the interests of time) is the right path forward. I guess you can start there and move on to basic writing courses if necessary. Did she submit a writing sample when she went through the recruitment process at your firm? What did that look like? I know people say that language changes and we shouldn’t focus on form over substance. I buy that for “the unidentified witness will submit their statement” (instead of “the unidentified witness will submit his or her statement”), but I don’t but it for basic writing skills because judges don’t buy it for basic writing skills.
Anon
Following – having similar problems at my work. Maybe repost tomorrow?
Anon
I have two first years and it has been a total head-scratcher. Neither law school seemed to require that they take a lot of core competency classes for transactional work or even basics (evidence). No sense of business entities, basic rules dealing with creditors, administrative law. I inherited them because their intended area was slow but now I think they may have been quite fired from there already. They are nice people but I feel like they are college interns vs actual lawyers. They are actual lawyers. I feel bad that they have loans given how little they know.
Anon
Don’t feel bad at this point. Law school hasn’t been a great investment for many years now but college grads still keep going.
Cantaloupe
I’d call her in for a meeting and tell her politely but firmly what you’ve said here: that you don’t have any concern about her analytical skills, but that this draft was not up to the level that you’d expect going forward. Then whip out the red pen and go over it with her. If there are writing courses or resources that a first-year would need access to, set her up with those stat. And if you have any general advice (i.e., “I usually ask a paralegal to check the formatting before flipping the draft,” or “Your secretary can do another proof if necessary,”) deliver that as well. She’s already been hired, and in all events, there’s not much to do until you give her the opportunity to correct the problem. That’s what supervision is for!
Anon
I think this is a know your office thing. This is exactly how my AmLaw firm handled these things: good old-fashioned shoulder-to-shoulder editing with pen and paper. When I moved to a small firm and did the exact same thing for which I had been rewarded at Old Firm, New Firm’s managing partner told me that we “don’t treat associates that way” and that I was “too critical.”
Former Junior Associate
I like this advice a lot, in my capacity as a person who received tough feedback as an associate. I think the more specific you can be here about her errors, the better, and I also think that the advice to tell her about firm or other resources she can and should use is really good–as a very junior associate in a boutique firm with no actual training program, I didn’t have any idea what our paralegals, legal assistants, and word processing department could do and was was reasonable (or unreasonable) to ask them to do. I should have asked more and better questions, but also I didn’t know what I didn’t know and it would have made a huge difference for someone to sit me down and tell me what was available and how I might make use of it.
Anon
“Hey Associate – I appreciated you getting me the draft brief yesterday. When we spoke you really seemed to understand what we needed in the document, but what you ultimately sent me didn’t meet standards. There were typos, grammar errors, and the formatting was incorrect; I had a lot of work to do to polish it. Next time, please double-check these things before you send documents my way.”
See what she does next time – if it’s more of the same you may need to have her do more specific training. If she’s got the conceptual/high-level stuff down, I’m optimistic that the writing can be improved.
Anon
Set aside an hour to go through the draft with her. Address the easy stuff first, this is how we format things – this is how I like documents formatted, other people have different quirks (e.g., make sure you use 14pt font for this partner). Check in with her if she had her legal assistant format it for her – consider giving her a template document for future use (e.g., with heading styles, numbered paragraphs, etc.). This is a given for you, but the 1st year might not have had anyone sit down and discuss it. If it is straight up red-squiggle line typos, you can politely ask her if Word accidentally turned off red underlining for typos (it happens). Then, spent the rest of it talking about the substance of the argument. It is hard, but I would always give someone grace the first time and take the time to go over it. Trust me, if you aren’t a turd about it, my experience is those people will work really hard for you in the future.
Anon
My guess is that she ran out of time either due to being busy or misjudging how long it would take and wanted to give you something on deadline. I’d tell her that before she sends you or anyone a draft, it needs to be spell-checked, formatted correctly, etc., and that she should have gone through and done at least two turns of editing herself to make sure the sentences read smoothly, she has addressed every argument, figured out what the biggest weaknesses in the argument are, written good headings, and so on. Honestly I’d put together a checklist. Ask her to go back through the brief, do everything on the list, and then send it back to you. A LOT of people don’t understand how to edit their own work and also don’t understand the level of quality that’s expected before handing over a draft, so you need to be kind but clear.
AIMS
I do a mix of what’s been mentioned. I give very detailed feedback the first time around and I try to highlight the positive along the negative. I really try to do this all in a very friendly way, which is k think key. But then I also always say something along the lines of – I expect that you will not get everything perfectly formatted or even substantively right, but you can’t have typos or major grammatical errors in the work you send to others.
I feel like this has usually worked out well. I think part of this is how you say it but it’s worked for me.
Anon
Was this an early draft? My briefs have typos, weird margins, incomplete sentences, and random thoughts in the beginning stages. When I was a lead attorney with second chairs, I would ask for early drafts and emphasize that I was not looking for perfection because we might end up with a different direction. Maybe ask her to resubmit once it is finalized and edited.
anonymous
This. I always found it crazy to spend the time perfecting a document just to have someone look at the direction the arguments were going.
Anon
I had this happen also with a first year a few months after she joined the firm. We have about 400 attorneys and the first years spend some time taking on matters from a variety of practice areas. She wrote a first draft of an agency filing for me. It was abysmal writing but the arguments were largely there (to be fair we went through the arguments together and I gave her several examples and an outline I had started). I was so shocked by the quality of writing that I even had a colleague look at it to see if I was way off base and that this is normal for a first-year. I’ve been practicing for 12 years and started at a much bigger firm than my current firm. Like you, I would never have turned in spelling/grammar errors, weird type font, random highlighting, inconsistent margins/spacing, straight copy and paste from the examples without even changing party names, etc. I met with her to walk through it and she straight up told me that (a) she didn’t have much time on it because of a bunch of first-year activities and (b) she knows she’s a bad writer and that’s why she plans on joining a corporate practice area. I did my best to gently tell her that this type of work product is not acceptable in any practice area and that attorneys will stop coming to her if this is the type of product they receive (whether in a client email, a draft agreement, or any type of written product). How can I trust the analysis/research if the presentation is so awful? She was a little big emotional in the meeting but seemed to get it. She did join a corporate group and I’ve heard from colleagues in that group that she’s doing reasonably well but is not one of their star associates.
NaoNao
Well I can tell you what NOT to do. When I was 30, I had my first real white-collar corporate job, I was a bit of a late bloomer. While I was educated and experienced, I didn’t have that corporate polish/experience making professional, polished documents like what you’re describing. I sent over an Excel file with edits and my boss said and I quote “don’t ever send me something like this again”. I was mortified. 15 years later, it still hurts! And she had the same attitude like “appalled at the writing/everyone should know this”.
The first thing I’d look for is a style guide, if you don’t have one for the firm, then is there some kind of general legal document style guide? I would for sure grab that and send it her way.
I’d also do the “compliment sandwich” critique. “Thanks for getting this done so quickly. I do have a couple edits and concerns. [List them]. To be honest, we really need to see this tighten up considerably for future documents, so my advice is perhaps making a checklist of these items [reiterate] and checking final draft work against those. But solid choice on [whatever you can find to compliment]. Okay, next up… [Change topic].
Anonymous
does your law firm have a library where they can send drafts to be read through for grammar/formatting? maybe ask her to do that before she gives it to you?
Jewelry
I have a ton of earrings (mixed materials – from diamonds to handmade art fair finds) but don’t have many necklaces. I used to wear the big costume statement necklaces. Those seem out of date. I don’t like the look of a bare neck because I wear a lot of open neck tops to balance out a large chest. Where can I shop for current necklaces? Would prefer real gold or maybe an interesting diamond pendant (can be man-made). I see lots of women layer two or three necklaces but how do I find several that go together? Any specific brand or item suggestions? Budget is probably under $500 but could go up.