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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm still hung up on the amount of time being spent to "set up the computer."  [/quote]

[b]Haha, same. OP must be 80 years old.[/b] [/quote]

That's not very nice.  BUT, having been an associate and a partner, I (and most lawyers reading this know) know what she's doing.  She's putting in fake "face time".  She gets to the office at 9 so she can turn on the lights, throw her jacket over the chair (most men do this), mess some papers around, then "set up her computer" (yes, two seconds).  Now it looks like she is in the office at 9:00 when she's actually really there at 10:00.  [b]Everyone in bigfirm law knows these tricks[/b]. Some guys even leave a second jacket on the back of their chair and lights on so if anyone walks by their office at midnight, it looks like he's still at work somewhere in the firm[/quote]

That’s not a “law” thing....it's an “office” thing, in basically every field.[/quote]

I can't imagine a work environment where this is something you would have to do or even feel compelled to do.  Many firms with patent prosecution practices in the DC area have JP trainees.  It has slowed down drastically in recent years, but we used to have trainees do the whole fake sleeping at their desk thing.  It is a thing in Japan.  Then, like clock work, I explained that nobody is going to notice that.  [/quote]

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