Waterman the idiot

The boss has left for Europe, to be with his wife's family and to send me imbecilic emails throughout the day and night. He's only been there since Saturday and already there are problems.

He attempted to file an accounting of an estate. As I mentioned in an earlier post, he's been doing estate stuff since the 1970s. But after all this time, does he know how to do an accounting? Nope. Apparently I have to fix it tomorrow because the court rejected it. Things are in the wrong place, e.g. in Schedule B instead of Schedule D, and some stuff isn't in there at all. I have to put it in, but don't know where to look in his ocean of documents covering the floor.

How is it that after over 30 years he doesn't know anything in the field that is his specialty? He's got a fracking LLM in it. NYU must be a really crappy law school, because he knows squat.

Juan the compulsive cleaner has also ventured into estates with Ben Waterman's success. Last week the court rejected his petition for "a voluntary administration." Even I know there's no such thing. There are voluntary accountings and there are applications for letters of administration. It seems Juan has not learned that following Ben's advice is not a good way to go.

The funny thing, not from the client's perspective, is that Ben makes more money off his mistakes than he would if he did it right the first time. Everything takes him three times as long to do because he's always messing up.

If you care at all about those who will inherit your property, avoid lawyers at all costs. Set up transfer on death accounts and trusts whenever possible.