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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree with the OP that "most" (not all" people who say they are working these hours are in part exaggerating.  People are rounding up, including travel time, turning a 30minute after hours email into 1-2 hours in their brains.  They work out, have lunch, chit chat at the office, follow espn and dcum.  They do long days 3 days a week and round up for all 5 days.  They have periods (weeks or months) where they work those hours and then use that as their bragging threshold for the rest of the year.  [b]Women on here who say "my DH definitely works 70 hours a week" are perhaps the most deluded.  When your law firm partner goes into his office on sunday to work 5 hours, he's not really working that much.  Sorry you had to hear it this way.  [/b][/quote]

I'm a wife of a corporate attorney who earlier said he works 70+ hours a week. I would agree with you in some cases. Fortunately, my dh never goes into the office to work on weekends. Weekend work is always at home, and most typically it's late at night (9pm - 2am or so) after the kids go to sleep. He sacrifices sleep so he can maximize his time with us. But yes, there are other lawyers at his office who regularly stay late, wasting time, to wait until the kids are already in bed, or who go have dinner nearby and then return to continue working. It's one thing if it's an all-nighter situation, but it's another thing when they break from 6-7 and then go home to their family at 9. [/quote]

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