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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
It happens all the time. If you're working on three deals that all have to close year-end and two of them are for the same partner, best believe you will be in the office any and every day the partner pleases. Granted, this has never happened at my firm (that I know of), but I know people who have gone through it. So, let it go.
TM
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I've gone through it. Two Christmases ago, I was working on one deal invloving parties in California, NY, and London while simultaneously working on a second deal invloving parties in California, NY, London, Amsterdam, and Belgium. Each deal needed to close by 12/31 to avoid certain tax issues, both in the foreign countries and the US, and both deals needed to close by 12/31 because the public companies involved wanted to be able to announce the deal with their quarterly filings.
I not only worked on Christmas, but actually never left my office from 12/24 until sometime early in the morning New Years Day. I showered there, I ate there, I slept there...my secretary made an emergency run to my house to drop off my laundry and pick up clean clothes. I only saw my husband if he came by bearing food.
It was unpleasant.
