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Sent an email to our conveyancing solicitor. Got an automated reply back:

Thank you for your email, which has been safely received


It’s SMTP, guys, not a consignment of dynamite sent through bandit country.

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Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown
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Why are conveyancers like this? Why can’t they write and talk like normal people?
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Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown
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They take days to reply to you and when they do, it’s like taking to ChatGPT with a corrupt harddisk.
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Ian Patterson
Ian Patterson
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@ajlanes One of life’s enduring mysteries is why everyone involved in house purchase or rental seems to be utterly incompetent. Is there a hidden chain of agents and property that only the true insiders have access to, where all the competent ones go? Or do they all drift off to better jobs, or get the competence beaten out of them when they stay on? #hellish
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Susan :potion_lesbian:
Susan :potion_lesbian:
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I have to tech support a whole dept of them. It’s… a challenge
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Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown
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They’re an admin assistant. I don’t think they’re legally trained. They just either think, or have been told, that being endlessly verbose makes them look “professional” instead of like a space alien that taught itself English from garbled police radio transmissions.
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Tim
Tim
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me, an American, searching for a definition of "conveyancing solicitor" that doesn't just say "a solicitor well specializes in conveyancing". I finally found one, but I was facepalming hard for a minute. I already knew that solicitors are what we call attorneys or lawyers, so I was really trying to determine what conveyance meant here. I never would have guessed residential property/real estate law.
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Tim
Tim
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funnily enough, if you see a sign on someone's property in the US that says "No Soliciting" it does not mean you can't practice law. We call door to door salespersons solicitors, because they "solicit" goods. Which to be honest, feels like an old timey word.
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Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown
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Some might be so unkind to suggest that conveyancing solicitors are those who couldn't hack the legal profession and barely scraped a pass.

But that would be a very unkind stereotype.

Might explain their apparent inability to fucking read, though.

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