Non litigator SWMBA will work until 2200 most nights, as she has spent many other daylight hours engaged in administrative tasks. Then there are the Very early phone calls (being 5 hours off from NYC) that occur, as well as a few Aussies and Asians who like the economic odds the mineral extraction industry provides. Or trying to wrangle financing or other deals with European investors.
But that does not answer the work/life balance of management/executives over 60 years ago. I seem to recall my father pointing out that the higher up the social ladder one went, the more social engagements one accumulated. There was a modicum of “business” taken care of after the sun went down. Dad would not be home for dinner most evenings, and we saw him napping on the couch over the weekend. Very engaged Paterfamilias clay > On Feb 7, 2020, at 11:21 AM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > I wonder if the reference to working late in the old movies and tv shows > might have been an effort to show that these folks were hard working and > successful? > With a show like Perry Mason, I don't think that portraying him as working in > the evenings would be unusual. He was a litigator - a court room lawyer and I > would expect that a lot of those folks do work evenings and weekends > preparing for the next day of a trial and meeting with clients and witnesses > to prepare them. I just read a case where the lawyers very obviously failed > to properly prepare or test their expert witness to their detriment. They > called their client's accountant and qualified him as an expert witness to > testify as to losses sustained by the client due to the actions of the > defendant. Their witness was totally unable to explain how he had arrived at > his conclusions. The defence lawyer cut him to pieces in cross examination > and the Judge basically said his testimony was worthless and as a result, > there was no evidence to support the plaintiff's claim. The lawyers should > have spent more time with him to be sure that he knew his stuff and could > support his conclusions with calculations based upon some facts. In the > alternative, they would have learned that he could not be relied upon and > found someone else to testify on behalf of their client. > > RB _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
