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Best Practices for Traveling as a SA?
Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2021 6:58 pm
by Anonymous User
Our firm is bringing us in to see the office. We have a general handbook with instructions on travel and what we can reimburse. What’s too far with reimbursements? For example, it says the day of travel we can get a $50 dinner. Should I be cautious about using it?
Re: Best Practices for Traveling as a SA?
Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2021 7:10 pm
by ksm6969
You are getting paid almost 4K a week ( assuming cravats scale big law). Nobody will care about a $50 fajita and margarita
Re: Best Practices for Traveling as a SA?
Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2021 9:25 pm
by bwh8813
Anonymous User wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 6:58 pm
Our firm is bringing us in to see the office. We have a general handbook with instructions on travel and what we can reimburse. What’s too far with reimbursements? For example, it says the day of travel we can get a $50 dinner. Should I be cautious about using it?
No. Be cautious about going over it.
Re: Best Practices for Traveling as a SA?
Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2021 9:28 pm
by Prudent_Jurist
You should buy me a $50 dinner. Biglaw firms love that.
Re: Best Practices for Traveling as a SA?
Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2021 12:06 am
by AntipodeanPhil
This reminds me of when my old V5 firm sent me to suburban Phoenix for a week to conduct due diligence on boxes of old files the client couldn't be bothered scanning. Every night I got the ultimate feast at Red Lobster, chocolate cake and a large margarita. I still had enough of the budget left to tip 40%. I miss those days.
And, yeah, I spent the entire budget every night, and on many other occasions, and no one ever mentioned it to me. The only thing my firm didn't like was when you bought things that didn't look like dinner. For example, one associate submitted a receipt for 7 boiled eggs and a large bottle of Mountain Dew and they rejected the receipt because he was "grocery shopping."
Re: Best Practices for Traveling as a SA?
Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2021 3:03 am
by Anonymous User
AntipodeanPhil wrote: ↑Sat Jul 03, 2021 12:06 am
This reminds me of when my old V5 firm sent me to suburban Phoenix for a week to conduct due diligence on boxes of old files the client couldn't be bothered scanning. Every night I got the ultimate feast at Red Lobster, chocolate cake and a large margarita. I still had enough of the budget left to tip 40%. I miss those days.
And, yeah, I spent the entire budget every night, and on many other occasions, and no one ever mentioned it to me. The only thing my firm didn't like was when you bought things that didn't look like dinner. For example, one associate submitted a receipt for 7 boiled eggs and a large bottle of Mountain Dew and they rejected the receipt because he was "grocery shopping."
Red Lobster, really?
Re: Best Practices for Traveling as a SA?
Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2021 12:41 pm
by Sackboy
Anonymous User wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 3:03 am
AntipodeanPhil wrote: ↑Sat Jul 03, 2021 12:06 am
This reminds me of when my old V5 firm sent me to suburban Phoenix for a week to conduct due diligence on boxes of old files the client couldn't be bothered scanning. Every night I got the ultimate feast at Red Lobster, chocolate cake and a large margarita. I still had enough of the budget left to tip 40%. I miss those days.
And, yeah, I spent the entire budget every night, and on many other occasions, and no one ever mentioned it to me. The only thing my firm didn't like was when you bought things that didn't look like dinner. For example, one associate submitted a receipt for 7 boiled eggs and a large bottle of Mountain Dew and they rejected the receipt because he was "grocery shopping."
Red Lobster, really?
All about them biscuits. Love when people are elitist about other's dining choices. Going ham at a red lobster sounds fun.
Re: Best Practices for Traveling as a SA?
Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2021 12:50 pm
by nixy
See also: suburban Phoenix.
(There is some spectacular food in Arizona but what's close to you is always key.)
Re: Best Practices for Traveling as a SA?
Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2021 1:20 pm
by Pennoyer v. Meh
I love Red Lobster. The biscuits are fantastic, and the seafood is perfectly fine too. It's no Olive Garden, but what is?
Re: Best Practices for Traveling as a SA?
Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2021 5:46 pm
by Sackboy
Pennoyer v. Meh wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 1:20 pm
I love Red Lobster. The biscuits are fantastic, and the seafood is perfectly fine too. It's no Olive Garden, but what is?
I can only dream of eating at the Olive Garden in Times Square once before I depart this blessed rock.
Re: Best Practices for Traveling as a SA?
Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2021 5:51 pm
by Pennoyer v. Meh
Sackboy wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 5:46 pm
I can only dream of eating at the Olive Garden in Times Square once before I depart this blessed rock.
And, even more importantly, getting reimbursed by my firm for doing so.
Re: Best Practices for Traveling as a SA?
Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2021 7:41 pm
by Anonymous User
bwh8813 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 9:25 pm
Anonymous User wrote: ↑Fri Jul 02, 2021 6:58 pm
Our firm is bringing us in to see the office. We have a general handbook with instructions on travel and what we can reimburse. What’s too far with reimbursements? For example, it says the day of travel we can get a $50 dinner. Should I be cautious about using it?
No. Be cautious about going over it.
Shouldn't be a big deal going over it either, as long as you only request $50 of it reimbursed? I've gotten a few $55/60 meals where I denote that I'm not asking for anything over $50 and they've never cared.