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https://x.com/pandeymohitt/status/1770440323468071313?s=46
Does writing such mails name shaming people and CCing everyone ON MAIL count as quite a work ethic? Confidentiality is also out of the toss then. I agree the names should be redacted, but such mails should be put out to such impunity is not tolerated by some puny people called partners.
The nightmare situation for me is having unreliable, smug, arrogant, know it all type juniors who lack work ethic, walk in and out of office as they please and throw attitude at seniors.
I have had juniors tell me "I'm not available tomorrow. Forgot to put it on the calendar. Give this to someone else" when an urgent deliverables are pending and matter is on fire. While this may seem reasonable to an outsider, this absolutely does not fly in a law firm. Essentially the client has to be serviced by people with context and skill level. It's not a supermarket shift that can just be covered by someone else.
So mid level SA and PAs get shafted because they feel ownership over the matter whereas these kind of juniors see this as a clock-in clock-out kind of job and think they're being a cool rebel. Guess what, the industry isn't changing. What is happening is that you are throwing the SA / PA under the bus.
The tone of the email while problematic is at best going to make me think twice. But having incompetent and smug juniors like this will send me running in the opposite direction. An angry partner makes your life hell once every few months, a smug and incompetent junior will make your life hell everyday.