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Re:One-third of tech workers admit to working only 3 to 4 ho... by torstenvl on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @08:28AM (#25927961)
Billing time is the absolute worst thing about types of legal practice you're talking about, and absolutely nobody should adopt anything about that system. Economic pressures eventually force granularity of a tenth of an hour. There are no circumstances under which I would ever willingly return to anxiety over whether a bathroom break might take longer than three minutes.
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Re:One-third of tech workers admit to working only 3 to 4 ho... by darkerside on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @08:31AM (#25927993)
Lawyers don't live in anxiety of that. They accept that is part of work and find ways to bill for it.
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Re:One-third of tech workers admit to working only 3 to 4 ho... by tiahura on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @09:16AM (#25928493)
Try billing 2000 hours a year in .1 increments. It’s not so much the bathroom breaks that lead to anxiety, it’s things like: kids’ soccer games, doctor’s appointments, and anniversaries.
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Re:One-third of tech workers admit to working only 3 to 4 ho... by jjk166 on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @10:38AM (#25929488)
You don't need to anticipate how long those things will take, you bill after the fact. Yeah if you don't keep good records of your schedule and just try to guess what you were doing at 2:39 last tuesday it might be stressful, but that's a problem with the record keeping, not the billing.
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Re:One-third of tech workers admit to working only 3 to 4 ho... by darkerside on Saturday January 30, 2021 @12:09PM (#25970766)
This is a much better argument than bathroom breaks. I do think it still comes down to an ability to self manage, which is going to vary widely by individual.
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Re:One-third of tech workers admit to working only 3 to 4 ho... by username90 on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @09:21AM (#25928546)
Lawyer job is to argue, they don't live in anxiety over it since they know they can handle any argument that can occur.
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