Feel like I should be open with my SM that Friday productivity for the next month is going to take a hit...

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Tell your clients the World Cup is more important than they are

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I mean, it is 😂

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Who needs the World Cup...It’s already a given that my Friday productivity will take a hit for the rest of my consulting life

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Oh Jesus SC1, have a little fun.

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@A1 exactly!

Oh SC 1, now you want to play cool. Got it 👌🏼

If you expected any work to get done on Friday you did your resourcing wrong

Wait... we are supposed to work on Friday? I usually get my errands done that I put off all week. Shit

Eh when you work in a field that is 99.9% driven by regulator deadlines, and everything is based on daily production, you don't have much of a choice

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