Every intern’s worst nightmare is what’s called ‘the magic roundabout’, which is when you get a taxi to drive you home at 7am and then it waits for you while you shower and change and then takes you back to the office.A financial-industry intern, speaking anonymously to the Evening Standard • Discussing the kind of crazy work hours that interns in the high-paced industry often find themselves working. The industry’s practices are getting fresh scrutiny after an intern in London died last week, apparently deprived of sleep for days on end, while doing one of these “magic roundabout” shifts. The intern, a German student named Moritz Erhardt, worked for Merrill Lynch.
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