“I’ve had 30% of the hours I billed this month (I’m billing an average 10 hours a day) written off by the partner I’m working for, because a cut-price deal was agreed with the client. This keeps happening, and it’s putting me way off my bonus target. There was no padding in the hours I billed – in fact I held back from billing more hours because I was aware of the cheap deal the clients were getting. But is this really fair? Have other assistants experienced a situation like this? Should I just bill everything to make up for the write-offs?”
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