How many hours do you work?
Male: Typically eight to six, eight to six thirty.
Female: Usually though that means 5:30.
Male: 8:30 to 5:30.
Female: I don’t know, eight to 16 hours a day
Female: On an average day, courses of 9:00 until quarter to nine.
Female: Eight to seven in the office and then like you know on Blackberry, all—
Male: From 9:30 to—could be—it could be 6:00, it could be 9:00.
Female: It is often a Sunday.
Male: 60 hours a week.
Female: My working hours are flexible because I work for myself.
Male: Probably one day off during the week but I work most Saturday morning and quite often work Sunday morning.
Who was your worst manager?
Female: I had a manager that didn’t like to show up a lot.
Female: On the first day on the job she put a pile of holders on my desk and said, figure it out.
Male: She was just crazy. She used to just yell and scream at you but I think at the same time she thought me discipline.
Female: She never trusted your answers.
Male: I guess our micro manager.
Male: There was just no feedback.
Female: —auto classic.
Female: I think she felt that I was trying to compete with her but I really wasn’t.
Male: Worst manager?
Male: One who I really can't get into.
Female: I wouldn’t name names.
Male: I won't name names.
Male: I won't name names it’s just very unlogical should we say so, any decisions are very off the cut.
Male: The manager went out working in the valley, in Silicon Valley had a startup who you could have mistaken for David Brent, you know the David Brent but I chose the original manager on the office.
Female: Truly I've been really lucky and I've had great bosses and mentors.
Male: I've been fortunate, I haven't had a worst manager yet.
Female: There is one person who tried to encourage you to be better by criticizing you and I thought that was a really, really bad technique.
Male: Well she was French, that probably explains quite a bit.
Female: He was french and he probably was less qualified than I was.
Female: Sometimes she would ask me like if you had dried your hair before you came to work.
Male: Well some people who work for me might ask me who that is, having—was straight.
How much vacation do you take?
Male: I usually take about seven to 14 days vacation.
Female: I’d say, you know, average two weeks.
Male: About seven days.
Male: Paid vacation depends on performance on the company so yeah, I do take it if I get the opportunity to it.
Female: Do I take it? Not all the time but I'm trying to get better.
Female: I take about two weeks of vacation a year.
Female: I'm older, I take like four weeks of vacation a year.
Female: My allocation for a holiday is 29 days each year.
Male: I get 30 days holiday a year.
Female: 4 weeks annually.
Female: We get 25 and it’s usually—I don’t take all of them.
Female: I think I get around 23 days holiday.
Male: —in a year, I take them all.
Male: —maybe three weeks.
Male: Five weeks a year and I take all five weeks. And if I could take seven, I’d do it.
How much time do you spend with colleagues outside of work?
Male: Every 4:00 to 9:00 maybe, for a drink after work.
Female: A couple of afternoons, we go for a drink after work.
Female: Once a week in the evening.
Male: Friday night do something after a long day.
Male: Quite often, not every evening, I bet lunchtime is quite frequently, yeah.
Male: Yeah couple times a week.
Male: I hang out with colleagues after work almost never.
Female: No, I don’t usually hang out with work colleagues after work.
Male: Rarely hangout with office mates.
Female: It’s too hard with kids.
Female: After work I go home and hang out with my family, go to bed.
Male: All the time basically, you know we’re always doing everything outside of work, different functions, dinners, everything with their families because I'm really into my team.
Female: It’s very often, yeah. I just love networking.
Female: I hang out with work colleagues occasionally. I went to Vegas for a weekend with people from work to see that—that was fine.
Male: I couldn’t name for you the last time I did that with a colleague.
Male: Do I look like I hang out after work?
Male: Probably not, no. When work is over, work is over, then it’s time to go home with friends.
Have you had an office romance?
Male: I've never been involved in an office romance.
Male: No. That is definitely a no-no.
Male: No I haven't been. I haven't been involved in an office romance.
Male: No.
Male: Office romance, I have not. Because I think, you know you need to keep pleasure away from business.
Male: Absolutely not, don’t dip your pen in the company inkwell.
Male: I've seen them around me and they never ended well.
Male: Badly, very badly. Yeah it was brief, quite intimate, passionate, yeah.
Male: Never been involved in an office romance and it worked out fine.
Female: My husband is the one I met at work and we tried to hide it and we take different elevators, we got to work and all that.
Male: It can only lead to no good so try to stay clean.
Male: You're fornicating at work, will have a special friendship at work, doesn’t work.
Male: Have I ever been involved in an office romance? It depends what you consider a romance.
Male: I don’t know if I call it romance but it was short lived and—the company for that matter.
Female: People I work with are not the kind of people I would date.
Male: I have it for a very enjoyable time and there were no—afterwards.
Female: No, most of the people I employ are women so I haven't—I'm not gay so I haven't been involved with any of them.
Female: Well I think going out for about three years with the guy I met in the canteen at work but I was really embarrassed about it for about a year and wouldn’t tell anyone.
Female: No I'm just going to say no. too complicated.
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