Hours

I love how easy it is to bill hours. Take now for instance. I just got out of a meeting with one of the partners about drafting a letter to a client. It's a basic, simple letter describing our progress with the case to which the lawyer clearly told me what to write word for word. I will somehow manage to bill an hour for this arduous endeavour. It will first take about 20 minutes of "research" on the case: bringing myself up to speed and whatnot (sitting in my chair and staring at the ceiling), then 20 minutes of "drafting" the letter (3 minutes to write the letter, and then another 17 minutes of staring at the ceiling) and finally another 20 minutes of "file maintenance" organizing all the supposed files I originally took out to "research" (how will I spend those 20 minutes?? You guessed it, to recline mode I go.....).