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Most of the 80-plus hour workweeks that consume the lives of junior bankers are not about participating in high-level negotiations--or high-level anything. They're about scouring through hundreds of pages to find a number for a spreadsheet on a company's financials, running back and forth from the copy center to finish a presentation book, Fed-Ex-ing things at all hours of the day and night and keeping a smile on your face when you haven't slept in three days...
...should be chopped into two companies. One would develop and sell the Windows operating system that runs 85% of the world's desktop computers. The other business would handle everything else--most notably, the universally used "applications" software, such as Microsoft Office, which includes its dominant word processing and spreadsheet programs, and its Web-browsing Internet Explorer...
...tapping away at another dreary spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel. By accident, you hit a secret combination of keys. Phfft!--the spreadsheet is gone, and you're flying over a landscape of rolling green hills, guided only by your mouse. Find another hidden combo, and--this gets curiouser and curiouser--you're crossing a zigzagging platform with fiery death on either side. Admit it. That's a whole lot more interesting than accounts payable...
...offers 1 million miles for flying 10 Latin American airlines and completing several other requirements by July 1. "It almost pencils out to a better value than the pudding," says Phillips. He visited six countries over three days in February, but hit some turbulence when Cindy found out Mr. Spreadsheet was lounging like James Bond on a Bonaire beach during a layover while she was home doing laundry. "I think it's still negotiable," Phillips told TIME after being grounded temporarily...
...Being a geeky engineer, I came home and put everything into a spreadsheet," says Phillips, 35, who had spent five years saving miles to fly Cindy and himself to Europe. With this deal, they could take their two daughters along, and so within days he had cleaned out every supermarket chain in the Sacramento area, unable to stop himself until he had bought practically enough pudding to fly business class to Mars. In the end, he had spent $3,000 on 12,150 cups of pudding, accumulating 1.25 million miles. (He also donated most of the pudding to charity, qualifying...