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On Labor Day, Celebrating Our Hated Profession

By Brian Tannebaum, Esq.

From Dan Zak of the Washington Post. (Free sign in required to view entire article)"It's Labor Day weekend, so we paused to think about work. Then we started thinking about people whose work attracts the suspicion, dismissal or loathing of the general public.The auditor: pickpocketing our hard-earned money.The used-car salesman: passive-aggressive liar with a glinting Rolex.The criminal defense attorney: slimeball in a suit, standing up for nefarious creatures.The ballpark umpire: blind, deaf, clearly on the other team's payroll.The parking enforcement officer: For the love of God, $40 for going two minutes over the meter?Prejudiced generalizations, surely. Auditors and umpires are merely convenient targets for our personal frustrations. Car salesmen and defense attorneys are stock villains in pop culture, not necessarily bad guys in real life...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Defense on August 31, 2008 (boomark / email).