Grabbing dinner with a former classmate who works at McK and she says $50 dinner expense limit, WTF...is that real??????!

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$50 was my food budget per week in college

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Lol she was probably trying to avoid paying for you :)

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Seriously? Did you grow up incredibly privileged? I would need to make an effort to spend $50+ on a solo dinner. 😑

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Room service at westin with a glass of wine will easily run you $50+

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McK expense policy looking out for the health of its consultants. 🙌🏿

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We have a $50 limit for solo dining. $75 when with teammates. Can go over when partner is there.

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No, she lied so she'd get a laugh out your FB post.

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So you can't ever treat yourself to like a $75 steak dinner alone? Is that real? Even for a manager?

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$50 is a good budget for dinner. I think much more is wasteful every night. From what I've seen on FB Deloitte are the worst offenders deciding to always spend a lot when it's not their dime.

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I rarely go over $50 on dinner (maybe once every four months) but it's not about privilege. If you order sushi for delivery, in between the food + delivery fee + tip it's not hard to go over $50

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$50 is plenty for a great solo dinner.

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Deloitte's general guidance is $10 $20 $30 for bfast lunch dinner while traveling. But on a day-by-day basis you can do whatever you want really, as long as your controller doesn't get mad at you

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A hard limit when solo dining. Expenses will force you to pay difference.

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$50 is my food budget when local for the week m-th.

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Wow

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That's the policy at EY

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I regularly go over 100 for dinner + drinks after dinner

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How spoiled does one have to get? At my location we only get $55 per diem. Cannot handle.

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Potentially.

Is it a hard limit MK? Or just "suggested"

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