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Commuting Hall of Fame: Penny Boot

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Something on your mind? Chat about it here. Happy Weekend! This Sam Edelman boot has been around for a thousand years, and it's very highly rated everywhere. It doesn't go on sale very often, so this is a great opportunity to snap it up. Amazon has it as low as $102, Nordstrom has some lucky sizes in a price range of $84 to $149, and at Zappos they're $149 as well. These come in a few colors, and in wide sizes as well as an extensive size range in the regular width, 4-13. They'd be great if you're looking for a boot to commute to and from work and to wear on slushy and/or rainy days. Sam Edelman Penny Boot Psst: check out our latest roundup of the best knee-high boots for commuting, work, and more. 2017 Update: We're adding this boot to our Workwear Hall of Fame because it keeps coming out in more colors and sizes and getting rave reviews. This post contains affiliate links and Corporette® may earn commissions for purchases made through links in this post. For more details see here. Thank you so much for your support! 

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  1. I’m not sure this will get through because i’ve posted a couple of replies that are mo dded, (why? I don’t get it)

    Thanks to all who helped me with my deposition blues on Friday. For those who didn’t read, I was deposed as a subject matter expert on Wednesday and my attorney thought I answered too many questions and was mad at me. Also, the attorney on the other side was a disrespectful, sarcastic, yelling jerk.

    Anyway, today I received the draft transcript (which my attorney received Thursday, UGH, why could he not forward it until today?)

    I would change very little about my responses. Some of you used the example of “do you know what time it is?” as a question that should be answered “yes” or “no”, not “3:15.” I looked specifically for examples where I told him the time, and at one point I not only told him the time, but I told him how to build a watch. But it was nothing harmful, because my answer was to read words from the contract in question. In fact, I now realize that a big part of the other attorney’s questioning was an attempt to get me to interpret the contract, and I didn’t do that once. I literally read the relevant part of the contract every time.

    Now that I read the transcript, I am also happy that the other attorney comes across badly. He said sarcastic things like “oh you finally answered the question. that must have been hard for you” in response to my questions. I sincerely doubt anyone is ever going to read this entire transcript other than me, but it makes me feel better that I wasn’t just being dramatic in my memory of how awful those six hours truly were.

    Many of you advised me to get another attorney. Unfortunately, I can’t. He is in-house and this is his job. I don’t report to him and he doesn’t report to me, but I am going to speak to my boss about the fact that I was ill prepared before the deposition, and not professionally advised during the depo.

    2. FWIW, I’m a gov lawyer so my witnesses also don’t get to pick me, but I try my hardest to prepare them for depos. I had one last week. We had 3 phone conversations in the weeks before the depo & I emailed him relevant documents and a “how to be a good witness” handout. Then we met for 8 hours the day before the depo, almost all advising him to tell the truth and then practicing Q & A, so he would be prepared for what might come. His actual depo was only 3 hours long. In the debrief afterwards, he told me how well prepared he felt, and that it made a great deal of difference in his confidence level. This is the kind of prep that my office typically does, if not more.

      1. I’m in Big Law and we do a similar level of prep (if not more) with our witnesses, who are usually relatively high-level employees of the company we are representing.

  2. I’m a relatively new manager in my organization. We finally have some staff support. Wondered if anyone had suggestions for software (or maybe excel templates are the way to go?) to provide overview, tracking, reminders for a myriad of various long-term and short-term projects? I’d love a very organized new staffer to take the lead on setting up some tracking and procedure-documenting protocols (flow charts, as well as reminders) – but all the info on the web is overwhelming and we have pretty much zero procedures in place now.

    Thanks for any thoughts!

  3. Someone a few days (weeks? who knows!) posted about their favorite travel steamer and I just. Cannot. Find. it. So if anyone has recommendations (preferably from amazon) it would be much appreciated! Thank you.

  4. The weekend is almost over, so I may need to post this question again next week. I’m in a flux for summer travel. I have 4-5 weeks and would love to go to Europe. I’m worried about the safety and uncertainty with the world right now. I’m also not sure which city to fly into. If I flew into one, kind of centrally located, I would hope to be able to travel to other cities. Any cities recommended? I’d love somewhere not overly touristy. Any thoughts appreciated.

    1. I think the following are (relatively) off the beaten tourist track (some more than others probably) and still have a ton to see and do: Krakow, Prague, Budapest, Lisbon, Dubrovnik.

      All of those places are perfectly safe from a crime standpoint, although if you’re a novice traveler you may feel comfortable in places where English is the native language (I think you could easily spend 4-5 weeks exploring England, Scotland and Ireland) or where there are more American tourists (which tends to be Western Europe, Scandinavia and the Mediterranean as opposed to Eastern Europe).

      Major capitals in Europe are super well-connected by train so I think wherever you fly into you can easily visit lots of other cities. If you want to go to a region that isn’t a major city (e.g., Cinque Terre in Italy) I would recommend choosing a nearby city in that country to fly into.

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