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Message: <blockquote data-quote="average_jo123" data-source="post: 116915" data-attributes="member: 15838">This is an old thread, but was wondering if I could get someone's thoughts on this? [USER=2672]@Jessica Booker[/USER] would be helpful to hear from you about this too.I'm currently on an in-person vac scheme. One of the partners in my group ("Partner X") said I can sit in on a client meeting at 15:00. It was a Teams call in his office. I sat across the room and listened in. Technically speaking the client was only expecting Partner X to be there in the meeting, and they were not expecting anyone else from the firm to show up. Partner X also felt no need to mention to the client that I was in the same room listening in because I'm not billing for my time anyway. On the same day, we had a practice area overview talk from the tax dept from 14:30 - 15:00. In the tax talk there was a trainee, an associate and a tax partner (who happened to be one of the firm's graduate recruitment partners as well). I knew that I would need to leave around 5 mins early to make it to the 15:00 client call on time, as I have told Partner X that I would be there at 15:00. The reason I decided to leave the tax talk early and prioritise the 15:00 client call instead was because (i) I knew that these talks usually run at least 5-10 minutes over time and (ii) I did not want to barge into Partner X's office whilst he's in the middle of a client call. At around 14:55 I quietly left the meeting room and joined Partner X for the 15:00 call. I know I shouldn't be sweating the small stuff but I was wondering if leaving a talk early like this would leave a bad impression and come off as rude? I'm just worried that it will come across as me not appreciating the time of people who were speaking to us in the tax talk. Perhaps one thing I could have done differently is inform grad rec that I would need to leave the tax talk early to attend a client call? But I didn't inform anyone because (i) grad rec would often leave us alone in the room for these talks anyway and (ii) my supervisor was on annual leave.</blockquote>

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