Current client pays for 2 meals a day for a max of $45/day total for food. Anyone have worse?

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Might be the most spoiled/out of touch thread I’ve seen on here in a while...

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ACN per diem in Houston is $41 per day. Woof

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Client’s per diem is $41.

Once had a project that was $40/day per diem, in middle America where hotel had no kitchen and a *very* limited selection of restaurants outside of fast food and chains like chili’s

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I had a foreign client who didn’t want to pay us for meals at all when we traveled within the US. We finally got them to give us a whopping $19 a day for meals when traveling in the US and $45 a day when traveling internationally, which is very hard in Singapore and London

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Seriously. First project I was ever on paid me a $40 per diem. I stayed at the Homewood suites and cooked all my meals and pocketed the rest. Thought I hit the lottery. You learn to pinch a few pennies when you graduate during the recession.

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Wow I thought I had it had at $50/day. Praying for you

I get around $50 a day and thought that was a lot...I get a Chipotle bowl and eat that for 2-3 meals. Can’t get out of the poor college student mentality but maybe that’s not a bad thing!

It's definitely a bad thing.

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Be grateful we're in consulting. Our client is limited to $10 per person for internal meeting meals. They typically get McDonald's, subway if theyre lucky.

Do they travel? I started in industry and there was no way they were giving us any money for an internal meeting. Lunch meetings meant you take lunch earlier or later

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