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Title: 40 hours a week
Post by: yoga-like_abana on February 21, 2014, 12:25:33 PM
Why 40 hours? What if you're not self employed and can get crap done before that time.. What's the point in making people stay :dunno:


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Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: pissclams on February 21, 2014, 12:28:34 PM
good companies/bosses don't make you stay.  sorry for your lot in life, downgrade.
Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: CNS on February 21, 2014, 12:33:41 PM
My experience is that if you get more than 40yrs worth of stuff done in a week, you get given more than 40hrs worth of work.  If you get that done in a week, you get promoted.  Rinse/Repeat.

Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: yoga-like_abana on February 21, 2014, 12:35:02 PM
Well heres and example: y-l_a gf is an accountant so she works terrible hours JAN-APR but then still has to put in 40 hrs the rest of the year even though sometimes there isn't work.. just seems silly
Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: kslim on February 21, 2014, 12:38:15 PM
I have gotten to the point where i just say eff it when im done and head home

quotas met nobody cares anymore
Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: kim carnes on February 21, 2014, 12:40:11 PM
So she just sits there and does nothing?
Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: steve dave on February 21, 2014, 12:40:15 PM

Well heres and example: y-l_a gf is an accountant so she works terrible hours JAN-APR but then still has to put in 40 hrs the rest of the year even though sometimes there isn't work.. just seems silly

Should go it alone. Great oppys on the field.
Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: CNS on February 21, 2014, 12:40:25 PM
Well heres and example: y-l_a gf is an accountant so she works terrible hours JAN-APR but then still has to put in 40 hrs the rest of the year even though sometimes there isn't work.. just seems silly

She should start her own biz, still work like mad Jan-Apr, then work 4 days/wk the rest of the year or pick up enough accts to fill out the week on her own.

Profit.

Acctg for Small Biz customers is a good example of low overhead biz that should be reasonable enough to start up.  Especially after doing it a few yrs for another firm if that firm lets her deal with the same customers for weekly/monthly payroll. 
Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: TheHamburglar on February 21, 2014, 12:43:13 PM
Sounds like a great oppo for some gE's to invest in y-l_a's gf to help her start her own biz.
Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: Emo EMAW on February 21, 2014, 12:45:18 PM
People act like all accountants are the same and interchangeable.
Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: steve dave on February 21, 2014, 12:46:24 PM

People act like all accountants are the same and interchangeable.

If they are CPAs at that age they are (or better be)
Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: TheCatFanSpeaks on February 21, 2014, 12:59:02 PM

People act like all accountants are the same and interchangeable.

If they are CPAs at that age they are (or better be)

All my friends are CPAs, and I even have trouble telling them apart sometimes.
Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: Emo EMAW on February 21, 2014, 01:00:07 PM

People act like all accountants are the same and interchangeable.

If they are CPAs at that age they are (or better be)

Well ya that's a big qualifier there.
Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: pissclams on February 21, 2014, 01:12:02 PM
Well heres and example: y-l_a gf is an accountant so she works terrible hours JAN-APR but then still has to put in 40 hrs the rest of the year even though sometimes there isn't work.. just seems silly

an accountant (her boss) being anal.  how weird. 
Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: TownieCat on February 21, 2014, 01:54:54 PM
Well heres and example: y-l_a gf is an accountant so she works terrible hours JAN-APR but then still has to put in 40 hrs the rest of the year even though sometimes there isn't work.. just seems silly

I travel a lot for work about 12 weeks of the year, and typically put in ~60 hours per week when I do. The rest of the year I am still expected to work 8-5. It is what it is.

If y-l_agf doesn't like it she should either open her own firm or pick a new profession. I bet that those other 8 months of the year are pretty stress-free.
Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: OK_Cat on February 21, 2014, 01:57:16 PM
if you put a solid amount of bbs'ing into your daily schedule, you'll never be bored.  <----free tip
Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: EllRobersonisInnocent on February 21, 2014, 01:57:25 PM
Well heres and example: y-l_a gf is an accountant so she works terrible hours JAN-APR but then still has to put in 40 hrs the rest of the year even though sometimes there isn't work.. just seems silly

She should post here regularly May-Dec
Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: Emo EMAW on February 21, 2014, 01:57:50 PM
If she's hot she should get a job for that GPC lawyer guy. 
Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: michigancat on February 21, 2014, 01:58:44 PM
She should spend some time BBs'in
Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: XocolateThundarr on February 21, 2014, 02:04:43 PM
if you put a solid amount of bbs'ing into your daily schedule, you'll never be bored.  <----free tip
Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: puniraptor on February 21, 2014, 02:08:56 PM
if you put a solid amount of bbs'ing into your daily schedule, you'll never be bored.  <----free tip

i call this personal development
Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: lopakman on February 21, 2014, 03:16:30 PM
Well heres and example: y-l_a gf is an accountant so she works terrible hours JAN-APR but then still has to put in 40 hrs the rest of the year even though sometimes there isn't work.. just seems silly

That's stupid so it's a good thing I'm here to tell her what to do.  Tell her to get her CPA if she has not already done so and then put in at least 3-5 years in public accounting.  My wife did seven years at Grant Thornton....yes it was like a prison sentence, sometimes 90 hours a week.  She made it to Senior Tax Manager before she gave up the partner track and quit to actually have time with her family. 

Next go get a job for a private company as some sort of in house management accountant, make $100,000+ a year and work 35 hours a week with no busy season.  Then use that money to buy a crap load of tanktops.  Problem solved
Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: The Big Train on February 21, 2014, 05:26:04 PM
So can you just skip point B(years being a workaholic) and just go from A-C? Seems easier
Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: Benja on February 21, 2014, 05:51:46 PM

People act like all accountants are the same and interchangeable.

If they are CPAs at that age they are (or better be)

All my friends are CPAs, and I even have trouble telling them apart sometimes.

Every single one of your friends is an accountant?
Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: Pete on February 21, 2014, 06:32:35 PM

Well heres and example: y-l_a gf is an accountant so she works terrible hours JAN-APR but then still has to put in 40 hrs the rest of the year even though sometimes there isn't work.. just seems silly

That's stupid so it's a good thing I'm here to tell her what to do.  Tell her to get her CPA if she has not already done so and then put in at least 3-5 years in public accounting.  My wife did seven years at Grant Thornton....yes it was like a prison sentence, sometimes 90 hours a week.  She made it to Senior Tax Manager before she gave up the partner track and quit to actually have time with her family. 

Next go get a job for a private company as some sort of in house management accountant, make $100,000+ a year and work 35 hours a week with no busy season.  Then use that money to buy a crap load of tanktops.  Problem solved

7 years at Grant Thornton probably feels like a lifetime.
Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: lopakman on February 21, 2014, 08:12:50 PM
So can you just skip point B(years being a workaholic) and just go from A-C? Seems easier

No
Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: The Big Train on February 21, 2014, 08:16:53 PM
So can you just skip point B(years being a workaholic) and just go from A-C? Seems easier

No

Damn, I thought it would be easier.
Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: steve dave on February 21, 2014, 08:47:17 PM
you can put in time with some townie dork CPA and be done with the requirement though. there's no rule that you have to slave away at an accounting house for years (every state has different rules).
Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: yoga-like_abana on February 21, 2014, 08:59:23 PM
Her firm has a no compete thing I think. She's done time at one of the big ones and townied for awhile


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Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: kim carnes on February 21, 2014, 10:04:07 PM
I can't imagine living in manhattan after graduation.  woof.
Title: Re: 40 hours a week
Post by: The Big Train on February 21, 2014, 11:21:42 PM
I can't imagine living in manhattan after graduation.  woof.

Because your a rough ridin' loser