11 hours of straight weekend work will net you only $15 of meal expenses…?! I just got an email that said I was out of compliance for expensing a $20 meal (per DTE). Penny wise, pound foolish.

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I bet your director can approve that extra $5 for overtime meals. Just ask.

My partner and directors have been very supportive with regards to making policies more flexible at the team level. Sometimes they supplemented the overtime meal allowance by issuing extra gift cards. Good leaders don’t sweat the small stuff and they remember how hard it was starting out trying to wrap up tons of work and not have time to think about cooking.

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