Being smart and ambitious – she is an Ob/Gyn working long, unsociable hours – doesn't put a premium on seriousness and a pin in having fun.
I opened the book while waiting for a show to begin, confronting my GCSE French skills head on and praying that the people next to me didn't think I was being an unsociable pretentious plonker.
Posh mothers were commonly off doing charity work; working-class fathers were on unsociable shifts.
Unsociable hours meant that local workers' attendance was unreliable.
JON REED is crass, unsociable and incapable of delivering his work on time.
It was praised for its unflinching depiction of the harsher realities of working in an operating theatre: doctors, hapless and helpless, trying not to lose their nerve, the attrition of hospital shift-work with its unsociable hours and the endless suffering coming through the doors.
In a series of regressions, they show that only a small part of the high incidence of work during unsociable hours is due to Americans' long workweeks.
The problem, he says, lies in the lowly image of the profession ("too much brutality and swearing in kitchens"), in long and unsociable working hours (chefs often work over 80 hours a week), low pay, and limited scope for promotion.
Three conditions are essential for the comic: the character must be unsociable, for that is enough to make him ludicrous; the spectator must be insensible to the character's condition, for laughter is incompatible with emotion; and the character must act automatically (Bergson cites the systematic absentmindedness of Don Quixote).
In some breakdowns, this means a doctor on a standard contract of (approximately) £20,000, supplemented to £30,000 by unsociable working hours pay, will be reduced to £22,000 gross pay - a 26-per-cent pay cut, according to a junior doctor who spoke to The Independent.
Working longer hours at more unsociable times will have an impact on morale and performance, the BMA fears.
