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Ever fall asleep in work or meeting?

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  • #32
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    TSMGUY wrote: »
    law of comparative advantage? And fair enough on that count, it's insane how money is generated by playing on fluctuations in the values of stocks/currencies. While I'm in a thread with 2 finance guys (and sorry to the OP for derailing), what's your opinion on Forex? Fool's gold?

    I'm neither a guy or working in Finance, I work in IT and have had intimate exposure to hedge fund guys through various roles :)
    I'm also risk averse :)

    As to Backwards man, while I might know how to mow the lawn, if I am working 80 hour weeks earning 1000 a day*, do you suggest I pay my garderner to mow the lawn or spend some of my precious leisure time relaxing?

    What about my ironing service?

    *Note, this is not the case irl for me in case you get ideas :pac:


  • #33
    TSMGUY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 855 ✭✭✭TSMGUY


    Stheno wrote: »
    I'm neither a guy or working in Finance, I work in IT and have had intimate exposure to hedge fund guys through various roles :)
    I'm also risk averse :)

    As to Backwards man, while I might know how to mow the lawn, if I am working 80 hour weeks earning 1000 a day*, do you suggest I pay my garderner to mow the lawn or spend some of my precious leisure time relaxing?

    What about my ironing service?

    *Note, this is not the case irl for me in case you get ideas :pac
    Yeah forget my other question, tell us more about that:D


  • #34
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Stheno wrote: »
    I'm neither a guy or working in Finance, I work in IT and have had intimate exposure to hedge fund guys through various roles :)
    I'm also risk averse :)

    As to Backwards man, while I might know how to mow the lawn, if I am working 80 hour weeks earning 1000 a day*, do you suggest I pay my garderner to mow the lawn or spend some of my precious leisure time relaxing?

    What about my ironing service?

    *Note, this is not the case irl for me in case you get ideas :pac:
    Depends on the nature of the job. If you're working 80 hours a week sitting on your arse all day I suggest you invest in a walk behind mower to give you some much needed exercise instead of seizing up altogether, if you're work is physically demanding then I suggest paying a gardener and pretending you're a hedge fund manager by backing horses on Paddy Power all day.:D


  • #35
    Stheno
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    TSMGUY wrote: »
    Yeah forget my other question, tell us more about that:D

    I more meant the "my bloody computer is down fix it now" type exposure :D


  • #36
    TSMGUY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 855 ✭✭✭TSMGUY


    Stheno wrote: »
    I more meant the "my bloody computer is down fix it now" type exposure :D

    A rich man..... a woman......a computer...... this story just keeps getting kinkier! Next you're gonna tell me he took his USB stick out and shared his data:pac::pac::pac:


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  • #37
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    TSMGUY wrote: »
    A rich man..... a woman......a computer...... this story just keeps getting kinkier! Next you're gonna tell me he took his USB stick out and shared his data:pac::pac::pac:

    You clearly have no real life outside of boards.

    Keep fantasising dude.

    You ever met the average woman who works in IT?

    Not for a rich man.


  • #38
    TSMGUY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 855 ✭✭✭TSMGUY


    [QUOTE=Stheno;100495894Y
    You clearly have no real life outside of boards.

    Keep fantasising dude.

    You ever met the average woman who works in IT?

    Not for a rich man.[/QUOTE]

    I thought that was already abundantly clear:confused:


  • #39
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    TSMGUY wrote: »
    I thought that was already abundantly clear:confused:

    It is now :)


  • #40
    TSMGUY
    Closed Accounts Posts: 855 ✭✭✭TSMGUY


    Stheno wrote: »
    It is now :)
    :(:(:(


  • #41
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Anyway, back on topic, when I was doing my finals in college I was running a nightclub back in Inishowen and taking fish to Mary's Lane three nights a week, so I had this on repeat when I was studying and somehow managed to get a 1st. Go me



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  • #42
    YFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,712 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    TSMGUY wrote: »
    Jesus Christ, I thought only analysts worked that much. What would the ballpark median salary be among average hedge fund managers? Not your salary, just the ballpark aggregate mean. Or is there too much variance in the industry to find an average?

    Like Ray Dalio?


  • #43
    hairyslug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,561 ✭✭✭hairyslug


    We had a staff party of a Thursday (why do they have staff nights out on a Thursday) we went straight from drinking to work. By about 10 both myself and my boss where asleep in a small office. The general manager turns up as he had mixed his coat up with my bosses (we worked off site) as he walks in, I lift my head from the desk, get sick into the bin and fall asleep again on the desk


  • #44
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,808 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    More to the point - ever wake up in work or at a meeting?

    Edit: Hadn't read the post above before posting this.

    Not your ornery onager



  • #45
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,067 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    TSMGUY wrote: »
    Feel asleep in maths class once. Never again, the teacher gave me a right bollocking. Could've been the whimsical likable teacher who shouts "BOO!" or some **** like that but no..... he went bat**** on me.

    You would be hard-pressed to find a mathematical lecture or seminar where one of the attendees is not asleep. I remember at the first conference I attended, there were three leading mathematicians asleep in the front row at one point.


  • #46
    764dak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,863 ✭✭✭764dak


    I once fell asleep on the toilet at work.


  • #47
    Chain Smoker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭Chain Smoker


    I've had naps at work, but it's one of those startup type places where they nearly expect you to do that ****.


  • #48
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭razorblunt


    In work, I was dozing off in a meeting once. My manager copped it but left me off as it was a demo session where it was Day 2 in the office after completing a Grad training program in the States and I was still struggling to catch up on my sleep with the jetlag.

    I've been in some boring meetings since and I've excused myself if I weren't getting any value from it and finding it a struggle.

    On a related not, I think I told this story before on here but I did some work abroad on a client site for about 7 months. We were stuck in a room with a team of contractors they had hired and one guy in particular was known for going for a nap in the loo. Normally over his lunch break but there was one loo in the place so I had no shame in booting him out. This then progressed to falling asleep at his desk, proper head back, mouth open type stuff. His boss was also a contractor went past the point of caring but effectively said his contract wouldn't be renewed in 2 months time, it was in France so they couldn't cut him loose sooner for whatever reason.
    Anyway, this guy knows his time is up and starts applying elsewhere, unbeknownst to everyone he leaves at 12 one day to go to an interview. Apparently he was told take a seat and they'll call him in. He fall asleep sitting down in the reception, was waiting only 5 minutes apparently. They came out to get him, saw him and left him there, his interviewer knew his boss and rang to tell him what happened. Apparently he woke up over an hour later and just came back to the office.


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