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Offering to pay for lunch
What is the etiquette for offering to pay for lunch in these circumstances:
1) As an SA? Especially on an official, organized SA lunch, it's obvious that you're not going to be paying for your meal. Is it improper/awkward to even offer?
2) What about as an SA if it is just you individually with another lawyer from the firm at a real informal lunch?
3) Lastly, I'm getting together next week with the father of a friend from HS who is the named partner at a relatively large firm (top 300 nationally). We were friendly in HS as I was over at his house a fair amount but I haven't seen him in years. When I reached out to him, he wants to go to this real exclusive club that is clearly out of my price range. Do I even offer? Or is that improper?
I can't imagine in any of these situations them expecting (or wanting) me to pay, but I don't want to be rude one way or the other.
1) As an SA? Especially on an official, organized SA lunch, it's obvious that you're not going to be paying for your meal. Is it improper/awkward to even offer?
2) What about as an SA if it is just you individually with another lawyer from the firm at a real informal lunch?
3) Lastly, I'm getting together next week with the father of a friend from HS who is the named partner at a relatively large firm (top 300 nationally). We were friendly in HS as I was over at his house a fair amount but I haven't seen him in years. When I reached out to him, he wants to go to this real exclusive club that is clearly out of my price range. Do I even offer? Or is that improper?
I can't imagine in any of these situations them expecting (or wanting) me to pay, but I don't want to be rude one way or the other.
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Re: Offering to pay for lunch
Don't offer to pay for an SA lunch. Believe me: we want to pay.
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Re: Offering to pay for lunch
There's some kind of write off for business expense for paying right.
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I wouldn't offer in any of these situations. I've never seen any of the SAs in my class even pretend to offer to pay for an attorney lunch. Everybody knows what the deal is- they can usually expense it and, if not, they make a lot more than you
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Re: Offering to pay for lunch
We can certainly expense it. But that's a smaller reason for why we want to pay.
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Re: Offering to pay for lunch
What's the bigger reason?Fresh Prince wrote:We can certainly expense it. But that's a smaller reason for why we want to pay.
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to feel like a baller, obviouslyAnonymous User wrote:What's the bigger reason?Fresh Prince wrote:We can certainly expense it. But that's a smaller reason for why we want to pay.
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Re: Offering to pay for lunch
Think about it for a moment. Why are we content to run money through our credit cards that we won't be responsible for? What could possibly be a benefit of doing that?
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oh, i know, to fill up your "buy 10 get 1 free" punch cards?Fresh Prince wrote:Think about it for a moment. Why are we content to run money through our credit cards that we won't be responsible for? What could possibly be a benefit of doing that?
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fatduck wrote:oh, i know, to fill up your "buy 10 get 1 free" punch cards?Fresh Prince wrote:Think about it for a moment. Why are we content to run money through our credit cards that we won't be responsible for? What could possibly be a benefit of doing that?
See above.
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Rewards points? For a $40 lunch, that'd be about $.40. Seems like a negligible benefit to me.Fresh Prince wrote:Think about it for a moment. Why are we content to run money through our credit cards that we won't be responsible for? What could possibly be a benefit of doing that?
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see my previous 6950 posts.Fresh Prince wrote:See above.fatduck wrote:oh, i know, to fill up your "buy 10 get 1 free" punch cards?Fresh Prince wrote:Think about it for a moment. Why are we content to run money through our credit cards that we won't be responsible for? What could possibly be a benefit of doing that?
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You're not thinking big, friend. Supposed I rounded up two more associates and three more summers. Suppose we each charged $60. That's 60*7*2 = 840 points.Anonymous User wrote:Rewards points? For a $40 lunch, that'd be about $.40. Seems like a negligible benefit to me.Fresh Prince wrote:Think about it for a moment. Why are we content to run money through our credit cards that we won't be responsible for? What could possibly be a benefit of doing that?
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Where do you pay forty bucks for an sa lunch. Ours are usually 300 or so for a group of 5. At 5 percent which is what amex gives that's 15 bucks for a free lunchAnonymous User wrote:Rewards points? For a $40 lunch, that'd be about $.40. Seems like a negligible benefit to me.Fresh Prince wrote:Think about it for a moment. Why are we content to run money through our credit cards that we won't be responsible for? What could possibly be a benefit of doing that?
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Points are better than cash back IMO, but you get my gist,Anonymous User wrote:Where do you pay forty bucks for an sa lunch. Ours are usually 300 or so for a group of 5. At 5 percent which is what amex gives that's 15 bucks for a free lunchAnonymous User wrote:Rewards points? For a $40 lunch, that'd be about $.40. Seems like a negligible benefit to me.Fresh Prince wrote:Think about it for a moment. Why are we content to run money through our credit cards that we won't be responsible for? What could possibly be a benefit of doing that?
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Re: Offering to pay for lunch
the associates fight for the check at the dinners. 1000= a lot of points, not to mention a good meal
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Re: Offering to pay for lunch
Only when you take your secretary out to lunch.
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Re: Offering to pay for lunch
If this was business, I can see employees insisting on paying for the meal. Quite often when my dad takes employees out to lunch, they take care of it before the bill even arrives. I get why the do it, but he has even said that it doesn't really impress him; doing good work and making the company money impresses him.
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Cool.Broseidon wrote:If this was business, I can see employees insisting on paying for the meal. Quite often when my dad takes employees out to lunch, they take care of it before the bill even arrives. I get why the do it, but he has even said that it doesn't really impress him; doing good work and making the company money impresses him.
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story, bro. The meme's not funny anymore. I just was offering an anecdote to counteract the sarcasm of the above posts.concurrent fork wrote:Cool.Broseidon wrote:If this was business, I can see employees insisting on paying for the meal. Quite often when my dad takes employees out to lunch, they take care of it before the bill even arrives. I get why the do it, but he has even said that it doesn't really impress him; doing good work and making the company money impresses him.
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Re: Offering to pay for lunch
I had a similar question, except with golf. My partners have taken me golfing a couple times for outings and such. Do I offer to pay?
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