Billing by the Hour

18Jan07

I HATE the billable hour.
The problems with the billable hour are manifold:
1) It rewards slow work and penalizes the efficient. If I can write a contract in two hours, and the guy across the hall takes four hours, HE gets a bonus at the end of the year. I get reprimanded for not billing enough [...]

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Sure, It Has a Window

12Jan07

One of the things I hate most about the “workplace” aspects of my job (the parts that aren’t confined to being a lawyer, but just the part where you have to go work somewhere) is sitting in my little white-walled box with a window.
So cubicles are worse. I worked in cubicles and hated it — [...]

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