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    #21
    Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
    I take it you don't think there's a problem?
    As long as he gets his 25% there's no problem

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      #22
      Originally posted by Bunk View Post
      As long as he gets his 25% there's no problem
      25% of the funeral fees?
      And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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        #23
        Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
        Boo hoooo
        not at all. It's a question of ensuring our long term prosperity and happiness as a nation. Why spend gazillions of pounds of tax revenue fixing problems that could largely be prevented with a bit more forethought?
        While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'

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          #24
          Originally posted by doodab View Post
          not at all. It's a question of ensuring our long term prosperity and happiness as a nation. Why spend gazillions of pounds of tax revenue fixing problems that could largely be prevented with a bit more forethought?
          Oops, sorry, I thought it was about a young man dying after, but not necessarily caused by, but possibly related to, working stupid hours on an internship when somebody with some leadership ability should be keeping an eye on what those young people are doing.
          And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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            #25
            Originally posted by bobspud View Post
            The tubes are full from 6.30 onward of a morning where I stay in London. They can't all be working in a bank...
            The manager I'm reporting into at this client was recently talking to me about some calls I needed to arrange, where the people never seem to be available. She made a comment along the lines of "I get into the office at 07:00 every day and can always get hold of them then". I know she doesn't leave before me in the evening.
            I thought "That's nice for, getting in at 07:00 - good for you, and maybe it will help you impress your manager, but I'm here to complete some tasks, not build a career." All I actually said was a sort of non-committal grunt.

            I'll work extra hours when I need to, if a deadline is approaching and I've spent too long posting on here / goofing off, but I'm not going to spend my life at the office (especially when I'm on a day rate!) slowly killing myself.

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              #26
              Originally posted by Ticktock View Post
              "I get into the office at 07:00 every day and I haven't got a life"
              ftfh
              And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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                #27
                In my current line of work, having made an unexpected but very enjoyable shift to industrial automation, if you stay in the office all night to get things finished, you're likely to just make a bloody mess of things that people then spend weeks correcting. Is there something about investment banking that make that less probable?
                And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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                  #28
                  Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
                  In my current line of work, having made an unexpected but very enjoyable shift to industrial automation, if you stay in the office all night to get things finished, you're likely to just make a bloody mess of things that people then spend weeks correcting. Is there something about investment banking that make that less probable?
                  No. Next question?

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                    #29
                    Originally posted by bobspud View Post
                    No. Next question?
                    Sorry, I'd forgotten about that minor clusterf*** that left much of the world bankrupt.
                    And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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                      #30
                      Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post
                      In my current line of work, having made an unexpected but very enjoyable shift to industrial automation, if you stay in the office all night to get things finished, you're likely to just make a bloody mess of things that people then spend weeks correcting. Is there something about investment banking that make that less probable?
                      Research into the optimum length of the working week goes back to Henry Ford, who found that beyond a certain point productivity of a worker per unit time drops. There is a wealth of research since then to prove he was right.

                      http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/pub...cms_187307.pdf

                      Good collection of links at the bottom of this as well:

                      http://www.igda.org/why-crunch-modes...rk-six-lessons
                      Last edited by doodab; 20 August 2013, 14:32.
                      While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'

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