General English. Ульянова О.В - 164 стр.

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164
THE FIRM
A partner of a law firm (Avery) is explaining to a newcomer
(Mitch) the rules of work in 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 what 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.
Слова для запоминания
bill - отмечать(ся) в табеле, billable – табельный (о
времени),
regardless – независимо, без разницы, goal – цель, unlocked –
открытый (ключом); tight –плотный, строгий; are accustomed –
привычны; not a bit - ничуть, нисколько; quit working –
оставил/прекратил работать; a disgrace – неловкость, стыд; worth –

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