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14:00-15:00 is the only non-meeting productive work time in the day. 9 hrs of doing interviews seems excessive, but what do I know
Also a little odd that he did 6 interviews in 5 hours. How long are these interviews?
Also, as someone who regularly takes his son to daycare (and leaves him there! he needs to learn to hussle his way back home again, I can't be there to helicopter parent!), good luck getting them up, out the door, through traffic, and back to the office again inside 30 minutes.
This guy is doing what I used to get yelled at all the time when I was filling out a time card - block billing. "One task? 1 hr. One hard task? 1.5 hr. One easy task? 30 min."
Clients hate this shit. Real heads know to always randomize a number 1-9 to put in the last digit, so it looks like you actually put in time from a clock rather than rounding to the nearest mark.
My agreement with at least one of my client is that I round up to the next 15 minutes. They know to expect fairly round numbers.
At my 9-5, our time keeping software doesn't even let you put in anything smaller than a quarter hour.
I had multiple clients yell at us for this, back when I worked in a contracting job. It was infuriating that we had to play these stupid games.
I have great clients tbf, I acquired them through my past 9-5s so I knew what I was getting into beforehand