Was on a summer lunch with 2 summers and one other associate. I usually try to keep conversation light, ask them about how they are liking the summer, practice groups they’re interested in, hobbies outside of law, etc. The other associate at lunch however had the opposite view, and spent about half the lunch talking about the “real” side of the job, I.e., working weekends, late nights, cancelling social plans, working on vacation, etc. While none of this was wrong, it made me a little uncomfortable to be telling bright eyed summers, and I could tell the summers were a little freaked out. I said to the other associate that we should keep conversation light, and they strongly disagreed saying that we should absolutely use the lunches to tell summers what they are really getting into with the job.
What’s everyone’s thoughts on this? Is the other associate right and I’m being too corporate shill-y?
EDIT: I’ve seen some comments about the difference between honestly talking about the job v. Bringing the negative stuff up out of the blue. How the conversation got started was me asking the summers if there were doing any traveling between the end of the SA and starting 3L. The other associate jumped in and was like “you should, it’ll be one of the last times you can ever take a real vacation.” And then that spiraled into 35 minutes of the stuff mentioned above.