‘Take care of this cat situation, right meow.’
An affiliate at a Biglaw agency in London has reportedly misplaced his job over one thing completely, pawsitively ridiculous.
As first reported by RollOnFriday, an affiliate at Travers Smith — a agency that introduced in $244,327,250 gross income in 2022, placing it at No. 26 on most recent UK 100 rating — was on a secondment at Inflexion, one of many agency’s non-public fairness shoppers. While there, an worker posted on the corporate’s inside messaging app, trying to promote some kittens. The affiliate jumped on the likelihood, providing to take two, however little did they know that this try to purchase some pets would finish in catastrophe.
One week later, the affiliate tried to return the kittens as a result of that they had fleas. That’s when the entire bother began. From RollOnFriday:
[The seller] refused, however over the subsequent couple of weeks the Travers affiliate repeatedly messaged her to say that she wanted to take the kittens again and refund him as a result of their fleas meant they weren’t bought as described, sources advised ROF.
His requests culminated in an eight web page letter which set out “all his legal and statutory rights” and demanded that the vendor take the cats again and refund him or he would provoke courtroom proceedings towards her, stated sources.
What a bitterpuss. From there, a sequence of occasions started that will land the affiliate’s profession within the litter field.
Inflexion reported the affiliate to HR, HR went to authorized, authorized went to Travers, and the affiliate’s secondment was misplaced. Travers Smith reportedly requested the affiliate to apologize to the vendor at Inflexion and donate the cats to shelter. According to ROF, the affiliate allegedly refused to present the cats away free of charge, and stated they might accomplish that if, and provided that, the agency refunded the acquisition worth.
Unlike the undesirable cats, this affiliate didn’t have 9 lives, and their job with the agency was hisssstory. ROF notes that the affiliate in query nonetheless has the “flea-ridden kittens.” Purrrfect!
EXCLUSIVE Travers Smith affiliate dismissed after complaining {that a} shopper ‘sold him flea-ridden kittens’ [RollOnFriday]
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