Sentences with phrase «so called it a day»

So I called my day job and told them I had the flu, and I told the night job the same thing.»

But going on to so called Day 5 tomorrow how much fluid should she be drinking throughout the day?

This kind of sleep deprivation and constant exposure to babies» screams are among psychological torture techniques banned by the United Nations, so calling the day to day experience of non-stop crying punishment is an understatement.

We had had a decent hour so called it a day and decided that it really was a pretty good day for the learners to go for it in.

As the tide made it to the top of the High it was getting too fat so I called it a day and pointed the bike back towards Tuban.

The wind got a little stronger about mid afternoon so we called it a day.

Of the 50 or so calls a day the system receives, he says, «Can you imagine how complicated and time - consuming it would be to personally answer those calls, record the addresses, and mail out the information requested?

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Forty - five percent of us go so far as to call it the most stressful day of the year.

«If I'm already there, I'm either going to downsize so I can stay under that, or I'd consider paying the $ 2,000 per employee as a penalty and call it a day.»

If you don't respond to an email that Gmail thinks is important after a few days, or if a person hasn't responded to an important email you've sent a few days ago, Google will call the thread to your attention, so you can follow up.

«With so many day - to - day phone calls, emails and meetings, it's easy to get caught up in issues that may seem like they need immediate attention but are small in the long run.

One day I received a call and the caller i.d. said «unknown» so I chose not to answer it.

So I became Uber's political adviser that day, and I got really lucky when Travis [Kalanick] called me back and said, «I can't afford your fee, will you take equity instead?»

To do that, fellow panelist Edith Yeung, a partner at Mountain View, Calif. - based early - stage venture fund and seed accelerator 500 Startups, advised venture - seekers to attend so - called «demo days» to watch fellow entrepreneurs pitch, because «it's a good way to get a sense of the language.»

These so - called «hybrid» entrepreneurs who keep their day jobs make for less thrilling copy and more complicated data analysis among researchers, so they're often undercounted, Raffiee notes, which skews the data on entrepreneurs» traits in general.

At Jigsee, that means Reza calls the Indian team from Ottawa every day before going to sleep so that, 9 1/2 hours away, they «start their day totally on the ball,» he says.

This was news to me when I first heard about the so - called «diversity fellowship» programs that are popping up all over Wall Street these days and that offer signing bonuses to selected undergrads and MBA students that meet the banks» criteria for «diversity.»

A portable charger means I have access to my digital library of books, emergency phone calls, emails, music, and more at all times during the day, so I don't waste even a little bit of free time.

«This time of year there are often lots of groups of friends all renting out houses so we'll get calls asking us to throw a dinner party for 70 the next day.»

Long gone are the days when Saudi Arabia acted as the so - called «swing producer» in the global oil market, when it would increase or decrease production to keep prices stable and profits high.

These days, children, nieces and spouses so fill the staff roster that they've earned a nickname: «We call the new generation G3s,» says Stewart.

«We're celebrating both the amazing content that's coming in ten days or so and also Target's great promotion strategy,» Hastings said on the call.

The NSA then has up to 180 - days to query the telecom companies for more data — on socially connected persons of interest, so - called one - to - two degree «hops» on their networks — before seeking a renewed authority from a FISA court.

On the other hand, Diversified once hired a man who went against type because he did so well on Natella's phone test, which entails several half days of cold calling potential clients.

So for the first 90 minutes of every day, all 1,500 sales people focused on their power habit, calling people who wanted to buy or sell a home.

So with all of this in mind, it's probably best to just get directionally bullish on Facebook and call it a day, right?

In these lean, early days, Other Lab has only three full - time employees: Griffith, the mechanical engineer and so - called lead scientist; Jim McBride, a fellow MIT postdoc and the house physicist (who happens to be on vacation during my visit); and Jonathan (Jach) Bachrach, yet another MIT guy who is technically a software engineer but like the other two has a far broader purview.

Given that serious vulnerabilities take days or weeks to fix, and that mobile phones are an indispensable tool for nearly everyone, the importance of so - called bug bounty programs for cell phones is likely to grow.

The so - called «oligarch», who potentially lost $ 4.56 billion in just the first four trading days after U.S. sanctions were introduced, has also built a ski resort and hotel nearby, according to reports in Russian media.

Eight years later, on Christmas Day, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so - called underwear bomber, attempted to detonate his incendiary diapers aboard Northwest Airlines flight 253.

Dell tasked Evercore with shopping the company for 45 days — a so - called «go - shop» period — and incentivized Evercore, with the prospect of a success fee, to find one.

While Detroit's story has been documented with an unceasing regularity — it's difficult to pick up any major newspaper these days without encountering an article analyzing either its economic malaise or its so - called renaissance, or both — it is not unlike many other so - called post-industrial cities in its quest for reinvention.

The focus on the tax plan comes just three days before the President's 100th day in office, a point - in - time measurement Trump has called «ridiculous» despite sending his administration officials into overdrive to promote the work he has done so far.

The balls made here — not to mention their raw materials — are put through every kind of test, from a machine that looks like an arcade claw game that makes sure each ball conforms to regulation, to a so - called «spinach test» in which balls are dumped in a vat of water and fresh spinach and spun around for up to two days to test grass stain prevention.

Trump has 90 days to review the so - called 232 report's findings and recommendations.

Many of the websites participating in the so - called «Day of Action» on July 12 are displaying a whirling symbol of a web page loading slowly.

«You get so sucked up in the day - to - day that sometimes you forget to do other things, like making sales calls,» he says.

Like a branch concept being used by Citi in New York, the centrepiece of RBC's so - called retail store is a futuristic financial - planning table designed to impress upon consumers just how far banking has come from the days of long lines and not - so - great service.

So I went home that night and I said well I'd blown another one and then the next day they called up and said there you are.

My kids rarely use their phones for old - school phone calls, so they appreciate and respond best to quick messages about their day's activities.

A so - called conscience protection bill in Arkansas died in the Judiciary Committee in February a day after Arkansas - based Wal - Mart said the legislation would send «the wrong message about Arkansas, as well as the diverse environment which exists in the state.»

Ordinary metrics such as calls per day and minutes per call are a decent starting point, but they alone are not comprehensive enough to paint a complete picture of the skills of any particular sales rep.. So, consider incorporating lesser - used metrics into your performance tracking, such as voicemail - return rate, dial - to - opportunity percentage and dials - to - appointments ratio.

So call it $ 800 / day.

It looks like you've given up most of your so - called days off to filming.

I'm not being difficult, but sometimes you go to a meeting and something dawns on you a day or two later, so I call up to chat about it.

Trudeau said he has spoken with Trump numerous times to press Canada's case about the potential impact of trade - limiting tariffs and will continue to do so, but it wasn't immediately clear whether he planned to call again in the coming days.

Earlier this year, while on a coaching call with a senior Fortune 1000 executive, she confided that she was feeling super disengaged; she was dreading having to spend the next day or so ensuring that a very important spreadsheet was error free.

They're never entirely sure when their daughter will call — it depends on if she can access the single phone for inmates of the prison that day — and so they spend a lot of their time waiting, worrying, and trying to make sense of everything.

Yelp hasn't commented on the third lawsuit, but in a blog post March 4 headlined «Different Day, Different Lawyer, Same Meritless Claim: A Classic Race to the Courthouse,» the company's co-founder and CEO Jeremy Stoppelman called the two suits filed so far «frivolous» and said the allegations «are false and easily refuted.»

Since that day there has been so much backlash from him getting hit in the back of the head with a chair, to him getting called bipolar, sensitive, people say n — just to get a reaction out of him...