‘Strike when the time is right’: Factory's lawyer plays long-game, outsmarting new company's big shot attorneys and their claim to pipe color ‘green’ by finding a clause in their own contract

Eleonora Bader

Sep 16, 2023 7:00 AM EDT

One retired lawyer spilled the beans to u/necronboy and some other factory workers back in the 90s, about 30 years ago, at a 'End of the year break-up party', as OP called it. This corporate lawyer recounted his most memorable case in all his years of working, and it had everyone listening with bated breath, impressed at his unique storytelling skills (hey, he is a lawyer, after all).

According to OP, this was the greyest man you had ever seen, from his suit, to his hair, to his skin, and the years he had spent bickering as part of his job were obvious when you took one look at him. The company made pipe, and a variety of other things, but in this story, it is the pipe that is important. I could spill the beans, much like this lawyer, about what went down, but I think that it is best you hear, or rather read, the words of OP's post. I find that it will entail a much more descriptive version of events, and that is definitely key here.

The morale of the story, is strike when the time is right. Sometimes, you have to wait your turn for payback. Another work story you may enjoy is about this supermarket employee who was convinced by his boss to help out another branch about 2-3 hours drive away. When he got there, he was ushered off the grounds, resulting in, well, chaos.