You just join a firm where an auditor has taken excess professional commitments than the amount he would be able to satisfy with the help of their manpower.i.e articled clerks and paid staff, there if u explain such rules, your FCA will shout some unparlimentary words at you. Defn. he wont kick u out cause he ll lose cheap manpower...but definitely try to exploit u only thereby complying to rules favourable only to them...I have faced such situations in my articles career