The Firm

Avery: You will be expected to be in the office by nine each morning. The secretaries are to be there at eight-thirty. Nine to five, but no one works so.

Mitch: And want about you?

Avery: Personally I am in the office by eight, and seldom leave before six. I can bill twelve hours each day, regardless of how much hours I actually work. I work at three hundred an hour, for fifty weeks. Nine hundred thousand dollars in billable time! That is my goal.

The firm doesn’t care if you come in at 6 a.m. or 9 a.m. as long as the work is done.

Mitch: What time are the doors unlocked?

Avery: Everyone has a key, so you can come and go as you please. Security is tight, but the guards are accustomed to workaholics.

Mitch: I was told some stories about the work habits in the firm that seemed to me legendary.

Avery: Not a bit! They are real. Victor Milligan, in his younger days, worked sixteen hours a day, seven days a week, until he made partner. Then he quit working on Sundays. He had a heart attack and gave up Saturdays. His doctor put him on ten-hour day, five days a week, and he hasn’t been happy since.

Marty Kozinski is a man who wants to nave breakfast with the kids. He comes in at nine and leaves at midnight.

Nathan Locke claims he can’t work well after the secretaries arrive, so he comes in at six. It will be a disgrace to start later.

Here is a man sixty one years old, worth ten million, and works from six in the morning till eight at night five days a week and then a half day on Saturday. If he retired, he’d die.

Nobody punches a clock. Come and go as you please. Just get the work done.

Дата добавления: 2015-07-20