I’m speechless. I even know where to begin. In all honesty, I don’t know who to blame or if blame lies with one person. It seems like a comedy of errors on everyone’s part.

Here’s the cast of this follie so you can follow along. All are friends on and off FB (names changed to protect the stupid):
 
Mike: Greg's colleague, father of Susie, partner hopeful
Eva: Our kid, daughter of a partner
Susie: Daughter of Mike, partner hopeful
Christopher: Eva’s ‘friend’, Grandson of the senior partner, son of a partner
Bella: Daughter of a partner
Skip: Son of a partner


Mike, has been working towards partnership for two years. It seemed a little strange that it was taking so long to confirm him since Greg’s confirmation only took a year, but everyone shrugged it off.

Greg and Mike are friendly but he’s not one of the guys you’ll see hanging out at house. Eva and Mike’s daughter, Susie, are good friends. A few months ago Eva came to Greg and said Susie was posting very personal information about her family on Facebook. Understand Greg monitors Eva’s FB & Twitter accounts like a hawk with her full knowledge (Too many of her friends have been stalked, she's no fool!).

At the time we blew it off. But she kept bring it up again and again. And then Christopher brought it up! Yesterday Greg got the news. Not only was Mike not making partner but he’s being fired.

Like Eva said, months ago Susie began posting rambling notes on FB about her family….very personal damning sort of stuff…on which she’d tag her friends. These notes talked about affairs, private financial problems, health issues, arguments & rants from Mike about certain colleagues (these kids parents & Grandfather), and a host of other very detailed things you wouldn’t want ANYONE to know much less leak out when you’re up for partner in one of the old firms who value loyalty over money. From what we read, the other kids were telling her to chill out because their parents read their stuff.

Long story short, the kids’ folks monitor their accounts as well, came across the rambling notes, and sat back and watched the smoke rise thinking Mike would hang himself. Well, if you give people enough rope, they will. And he did. He was discussing clients’ private matters with his wife and others. You can’t do that especially with the clients their represent.

Anyway, via Susie, Mike gave the firm the ammo they needed and now he’s unemployed and broke. It’s kind of his fault. First, he shouldn’t have opened his mouth. Second, he should’ve been monitoring Susie social media activity. Third, he shouldn’t rant, in detail, in front of his kids. Four, he should’ve raised her not to talk about family business in the street. My folks would’ve kicked my ass if I thought about talking about the stuff she mentioned.

That girl came back and told it all!! In graphic detail…with info only he would’ve known.





They came over for BC’s birthday party. That night Susie posted a note stating that Mike called us low class because we hired a local hole-in-the wall to cater the party. Um, how is pouring money into a damn good local mom & pop low class? Now the folks who’ve never had their food are flocking to the place and using them to cater their functions. How is this low class?

Back in December she wrote about Mike trashing Christopher’s Grandfather (senior partner) for inviting ‘the help’ to his Christmas party. I won’t go into detail but you can imagine what ___lover, worthless___, “how can he rub elbows with ‘those’ people”…means.

Quick Rant: By no means is Greg’s firm one of the good guys. They’re the ones you don’t want to go up against. However, it's an old and very diverse firm. Did Mike really think the partners would be cool with him making semi-racist comments in the freakin’ open when they already had their suspicions about him?

Whatever. From Greg’s accounts, Mike was/is a damn good attorney even though he leaked his clients information. Luckily, the info didn't go any further than it had. I feel bad for his family. I don’t like to see people suffer needlessly but we all make choices. I wish them the best. Some parents may look at us as being strict or over-protective but when Greg created Eva's accounts, he locked that shit down tighter than Fort Knox. We trust Eva, we don't trust folks on the net!

Let this blog-zilla serve as a warning. You never know what your kids are talking about on these social media sites. What you talk about in the car can end up as public knowledge seconds later.