And these people get paid money by others.
I hope you like the headline I got a car pun and a welsh pun and a dickhead pun all in there at the same time
Humanity just astounds me ..
Roll on Friday
An Eversheds Sutherland partner used his car to trap a pregnant associate in the office car park when she took his space – and then demanded a written apology from her.
Parking spaces are allocated on request at the firm’s Cardiff office, but the female associate (‘PW’), broke the rules and snuck in without having reserved a spot.
She nabbed the space given to Richard Pitt, a litigation partner who is the head of the office’s Commercial Dispute Resolutions team and also leads the firm’s national Public Procurement team.
When Pitt returned from the gym to find his spot had been taken he was “enraged”, said a source.
In a fit of pique he parked his car behind hers, lengthways, blocking in her vehicle and another colleague’s.
The associate discovered she was trapped and asked Pitt to move his car – believed to be a yellow Porsche – so she could go home.
“Richard’s response – a firm no”, said a source.
To work around his refusal to budge, Eversheds Sutherland staff who were parked in the adjacent spaces moved their cars so PW could drive through the gap and away to freedom.
But that wasn’t the end of it, as Pitt then asked his pregnant colleague to provide him with a written apology.
“Amazingly”, she did, said a source.
But that still wasn’t the end of it – the written apology was apparently “not good enough” and Pitt requested an in-person apology. At that point, the associate refused.
It is now the partner saying sorry. Pitt told RollOnFriday, “In the moment I made a regrettable error of judgement for which I apologise unreservedly”.
A spokesperson for Eversheds Sutherland said, “We are aware of the incident relating to car parking at our Cardiff office. The matter has now been satisfactorily resolved”.
