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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mather House students and staff are Billy's extended family. "The best thing about working here is that all the students know me," he says. On a recent Friday evening, as he puffs on his evening's cigar, a tutor introduced Billy to his girlfriend who was visiting from Europe for the weekend. Two separate groups of students proposed that Billy join them on their trip to see The Game the next morning. Billy politely declines and lightheartedly advises them to not drink too much beer. Working as a security guard is more about fielding random queries than cracking down...
...interviews end at 7 p.m., but work won't be over for two more hours. While partners and senior staffers tend to leave the office early to rejoin their families, young analysts burn the midnight oil. The hours are enormously variable, they say. "You're here as late as you want to be--you work until you're done, basically," one associate says. Some night analysts leave early enough to see the sun go down, but at other times they must stay until 2 or 3 a.m. Shemmer says he sleeps about six or seven hours a night--far less...
...weekends, Billy breaks up parties. "Hopefully, they register the party," Billy says, "so at least we know what's going on in the room, and at 1 a.m., I go up and say, 'Enough is enough.'" He chuckles, and says, "It seems to me that everybody's content in the Yard, but when they come here, they say, 'I'm free,' and get a little crazy. Especially this year, because we have a new breed of sophomores." He recalled one recent toga party during which a fire alarm sounded. "The toga party they had was very interesting. All the girls...
...Harvard let go many of its security guards loose this summer. "About half of the guards left," Billy says. "About 27 out of 54 guards I'd say. Either they were old, or they took some money and got away. It was a lot of money, maybe $13,000, but that's not a year's worth of work. In the long run, the agreement wasn't worth the paper it was printed on." Harvard replaced the vacated positions with subcontracted workers from Security Systems Incorporated (SSI). Instead of the traditional black Harvard uniform, they wear bright white shirts with...
...lottery," Billy declares, "I'd probably pay off all the debt I have and take a nice trip to a warm climate. I'd stay for a while--at least a month--or until I ran out of options to do there. Say Aruba, or the Cayman Islands, but I'd have to be doing more than fishing and drinking in the beach. I like fishing...