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Date: May 22nd, 2025 12:45 PM Author: Maroon Mother Codepig i turned off my timer if I was just chatting with coworkers, browsing the internet for personal stuff, using the restroom.
also, if I accidentally left my timer running when I wasn't working, I subtracted the excess time based on my rough estimate.
under this system, the most i ever billed in a month was 230, and that was absolutely hellish. |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 8:41 AM Author: coiffed haunting space telephone Look at this fucking nerd using a timer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48955796) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 11:17 AM Author: Cream vigorous whorehouse 230 with no fluff is fucking insane. I routinely billed 200 a month but actually workd like a hundred or so (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48956128) |
Date: May 22nd, 2025 12:48 PM Author: Red boyish principal's office goyim lol @ any "man" even using a timer, let alone turning it off. are u a fempoaster? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48953677) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:10 PM Author: mahogany hyperventilating gaming laptop (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48953775) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 12:49 PM Author: fantasy-prone church milk (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48953683) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 12:51 PM Author: embarrassed to the bone pearl selfie feces When I was above 200 my bills were most honest. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48953693) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 12:52 PM Author: hilarious shrine private investor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48953696) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 12:53 PM Author: Disturbing laser beams I bill only for time where I'm 100% engaged, doing my best and adding value (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48953697) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 12:57 PM Author: embarrassed to the bone pearl selfie feces Partner: Please see me (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48953711) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 12:58 PM Author: hilarious shrine private investor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48953719) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:01 PM Author: Disturbing laser beams I am the partner. That's what's so insane about this. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48953730) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:10 PM Author: mahogany hyperventilating gaming laptop (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48953776) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 11:32 AM Author: Umber theater stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48956167) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 12:55 PM Author: Milky stimulating jap the internal moral stress of retaining honesty is a large reason why I left biglaw (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48953704) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 11:18 AM Author: Cream vigorous whorehouse why bother retaining honesty? the whole thing is fraud (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48956129) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:00 PM Author: citrine overrated property french chef On average probably padded 15 %. Consider it your “tip” for your services. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48953725) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:11 PM Author: mahogany hyperventilating gaming laptop 18% is now normal and many biglaw firms are suggesting 20% or even 22% (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48953779) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:18 PM Author: citrine overrated property french chef (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48953815) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:19 PM Author: aphrodisiac brass orchestra pit nibblets (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48953820) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 6:26 AM Author: embarrassed to the bone pearl selfie feces (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48955678) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:12 PM Author: embarrassed to the bone pearl selfie feces My favorite story is still that Sidley associate who wrote an essay admitting to billing fraud and Sidley was like, “we checked and everything looked good to us. Here’s a ten percent rebate.” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48953784) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:13 PM Author: Red boyish principal's office goyim (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48953787) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:23 PM Author: Twinkling Electric Lodge (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48953844) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:17 PM Author: Twinkling Electric Lodge Any time I've been honest I've been passed up or fired
When applying I'd give honest solid resumes all passed up Then I lie even a little bit and they all bite
I tell clients realistic timetables that are still aggressive but reasonable passed or fired eventually
Now I straight up lie
Employment is a satanic system built around forcing u to lie cheat and steal in some sick humiliation ritual
Few ever see the truth about this |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:19 PM Author: unhinged aqua reading party (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48953819) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 1:21 PM Author: mahogany hyperventilating gaming laptop (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48953828) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 2:51 PM Author: Maroon Mother Codepig what happens when the truth comes out later? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48954139) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 2:54 PM Author: Twinkling Electric Lodge Never does imo
It's all a big ponzi scheme and everyone else is in on it trying not to be caught
Seems like u only get "caught" if u step out of line politically (call out jews etc) or are bottom of the barrel and are essentially a Aztec pyramid blood sacrifice |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 9:29 AM Author: Supple jet-lagged school cafeteria famous landscape painting people who make it see the truth immediately, xo autistd and women struggle (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48955867) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 4:50 PM Author: godawful transparent queen of the night kitty I’m more of a look at my sent inbox and estimate type of bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48954460) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 11:33 AM Author: Umber theater stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48956169) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 4:55 PM Author: Glittery locale giraffe While I would bill more than my actual time frequently, I never billed for more than the "value" of my work product. So yes I was honest. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48954471) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 5:22 PM Author: bipolar topaz place of business (superstar biglawyer) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48954578) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 9:29 AM Author: Supple jet-lagged school cafeteria famous landscape painting (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48955868) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 11:28 AM Author: excitant alpha self preservation through mental gymnastics we're all good people, right? especially me. |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 5:14 PM Author: Maroon Mother Codepig (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48954529) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 9:45 PM Author: Fuchsia vengeful point wagecucks If someone makes $15 an hour at McDonalds, you don't get to dock their pay because when the orders got slow, they chatted with their cowrker rather than mopped the floor.
The same thing applies to law. You take the time you were at work, working, and you divide proportionally.
It's not natural for a person to read 500 pages of bonds without a break - in fact most research says you need to take periodic breaks for your mind to regenerate.
YOu shouldn't "pause your timer" after draftig some document because you're taking a lap to the water cooler or checking Facebook for a bit because you can't rewrite Section 13.6 e.
Similarly, when you get an email on your blackberry at 11 pm, and it takes you 3 minutes to respond - that's not billed as a 0.05 hour. You had to be on call to check for that email, then you lost the momentum from your evening, you're going to think about that email for 10 minutes after, and the deal will be in your head for whatever else you were planning on doing that night.
My point being that whenever your brain is required to be in "work mode" - someone should be paying for that. |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 10:27 PM Author: Red boyish principal's office goyim >Similarly, when you get an email on your blackberry at 11 pm, and it takes you 3 minutes to respond - that's not billed as a 0.05 hour. You had to be on call to check for that email, then you lost the momentum from your evening, you're going to think about that email for 10 minutes after, and the deal will be in your head for whatever else you were planning on doing that night.
so what do you bill for that? 1.25 to me makes sense |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 10:31 PM Author: Fuchsia vengeful point wagecucks For a single email id do like a 0.3 or 0.4 but if you're answering multiple hours then i feel like the entire time is fair game (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48955262) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 10:35 PM Author: Henna forum wait why cant they mop the floor when orders get slow (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48955265) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 10:40 PM Author: Fuchsia vengeful point wagecucks When its super slow, they should.
When its just a short break, people would quit if they were expected to be fully working 100% of the time. |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 10:42 PM Author: Henna forum im all for workers rights but i dont think mickey d's employees can actually quit. thats mickey d's whole business model. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48955287) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 6:28 AM Author: embarrassed to the bone pearl selfie feces (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48955680) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 11:21 AM Author: Cream vigorous whorehouse this guy gets it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48956141) |
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Date: May 22nd, 2025 10:51 PM Author: Bateful Ruby Base Halford I bill mainly based upon the value of my work product to the client. If I work hard on something but don't end up with a product that helps the client very much then I will actually underbill for my hours spent. Usually the product is good, though, and then I'm pretty fucking loose in my billing. Me and everyone else I know. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48955307) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 6:28 AM Author: embarrassed to the bone pearl selfie feces (Wachtel) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48955681) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 7:31 AM Author: lime vivacious newt Why would anyone be honest when you can inflate your hours by 50% without drawing suspicion? 1500 gets you fired, 2250 gets you a bonus. The only people who ever get caught do colossally stupid shit like bill more than 24 hours in a day, bill for work that was never done, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48955722) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 8:43 AM Author: Red boyish principal's office goyim The thing most non-Jewish juniors don’t understand is that the firm WANTS you to inflate your bill by 50%. Incentives are entirely aligned. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48955798) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 9:06 AM Author: Carnelian resort fortuitous meteor Real talk: the people who get "caught" are overbilling by 200-500%, not flame. It's like the young woman who spends too long with one foot out the door, or the dude with developing mental illness who's unable to do more than an hour or two of work a couple times a week. And they're ID'd for qualitative reasons, not the billing itself, which is often a straight-up pretext to expedite getting rid of the person.
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 11:24 AM Author: French mentally impaired elastic band I once had to bill more than 24 hours in a day, because our faggy billing system automatically populated 8 hours on holidays. I think this was for the benefit of the hourly employees, but it carried over for salaried lawyers too. Anyway, I ended up working an 18 hour day on Thanksgiving, which the system wouldn't accept. Getting that sorted with the billing system retard was a nightmare. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48956150) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 8:41 AM Author: Bistre wonderful trailer park lettuce I massively underbill by a few hundred hours a year, often to the benefit of nobody (lots of contingency matters). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48955792) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 8:41 AM Author: coiffed haunting space telephone lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48955794) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 8:44 AM Author: coiffed haunting space telephone At my V5 prestigious elite M&A MFH shop at which I was considered a top associate we had a universal understanding on asshole taxes for work that came in Friday afternoon with a “don’t kill your self on this, Monday AM is fine for a markup” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48955799) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 11:31 AM Author: French mentally impaired elastic band (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48956165) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 9:08 AM Author: silver mediation gaping The first thing my biglaw partner told me on day 1 is that you never log anything less than a 0.4 even if you spend 30 seconds on it because whatever you’re doing is taking you away from something else you could be doing and billing for (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48955837) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 9:15 AM Author: Carnelian resort fortuitous meteor I'm not even joking when I say that it's rare and heartwarming to hear about a partner looking out for a young person like that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48955848) |
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Date: May 23rd, 2025 11:35 AM Author: aphrodisiac brass orchestra pit nibblets Wasn't this the premise for Jim Carrey's Liar Liar? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5728819&forum_id=2#48956178) |