Brian had no social life
Christ but I had a manager like that - Conal.

We did our 9-5 slog and fucked off home but not Conal, oh no.

He'd be in at 8 am and stay until 10 pm. Then he'd log on remotely from home and participate in the US end of the operation's working day. He'd then precis their work and forward it on to us in lenghty emails with colour-coded commentary from him. You'd arrive in the following morning and find half a dozen loooooooooong emails in all the colours of the rainbow and time-stamped 2.30 am.

He once cancelled a holiday so that he could stay in work to monitor a live rollout of a website. Seeing as it was a last minute cancellation he got no refund either. Another time and he had to be almost dragged from the building by his brother and sister in order to get him to show up for his parent's wedding anniversary.

I was told by another colleague that I was seeing the more 'normal' Conal as he used to stay in work for several days at a stretch without sleeping, washing, eating or changing his clothes.
(Fanta Menace Is tall enough to see over the fence, Thu 24 Jan 2008, 14:20, Reply)