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Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
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.
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Holy crap. Thank God for litigation (I can't believe I'm saying that)... Though we get the occasional months-long trial, at least our schedules are tied to the whims of judges who for the most part don't even set foot in the office the last half of December... I've had several early January trials, but even then we busted our asses so we wouldn't have to be there on holidays.
