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Re: Business Lunch Protocol
« Reply #15 on: February 12, 2009, 09:04:58 AM »

The O/P remarked that this establishment served large portions.

So, business etiquettes and protocol dictate that I come off as looking wantonly improvident as to avoid looking like a *8==>*?
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Re: Business Lunch Protocol
« Reply #16 on: February 12, 2009, 10:38:40 AM »

I'm sorry, but "wantonly improvident" and "uneducated redneck" do not compute.

And you meant "wonton" -- they were having Chinese.
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Re: Business Lunch Protocol
« Reply #17 on: February 12, 2009, 10:43:57 AM »

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Re: Business Lunch Protocol
« Reply #18 on: February 12, 2009, 10:45:00 AM »

Taking home a 'doggie bag' can be tacky.  But its not like the person ordered extra on purpose, seems it was the normal lunch portion for that establishment - so tacky perhaps, but tacky enough to post on a golf forum?  HTFU  Wink


I have had numerous instances were I was offered, and even given without asking, things to take with me from a business lunch.  So, perhaps I deal with a different class of schmooze.

That said - if they ordered extra just to take home or performed any of the acts that gammapi has listed - they are classless douches.

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Re: Business Lunch Protocol
« Reply #19 on: February 12, 2009, 01:44:40 PM »

[uneducated hick]   Anonymous Bricks Had no idea.   Well, luckily the events won't present themselves in my lifetime. [/uneducated hick]

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Re: Business Lunch Protocol
« Reply #20 on: February 12, 2009, 01:48:18 PM »

I'm sorry, but "wantonly improvident" and "uneducated redneck" do not compute.

And you meant "wonton" -- they were having Chinese.

Well, that solves the problem for me.  Never left a good Chinese joint with the leftovers, cuz I make damn sure there ain't no such thing. Grin
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Re: Business Lunch Protocol
« Reply #21 on: February 12, 2009, 04:45:38 PM »

Seriously, in the grand scheme of things, who really gives a *fudge* about left-over take-away decorum?  And if one does, one should reevaluate.
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Re: Business Lunch Protocol
« Reply #22 on: February 13, 2009, 06:42:47 AM »

The reason it is tacky is because an important element of a proper business lunch, so to say, is unzipping the fly and throwing the joneses on to the table, to make comparisons and declarative statements of dominance in the business relationship, and whatnot.

I mean, the 3 martini lunch has far more to do with one-upsmanship than with frank alcoholism. 

The only situation in which a doggie bag is proper is if you actually are scraping up leftovers from the entire table, and using this to augment the diet of your virile pack of hunting hounds back home, which are kept in an outdoor kennel 24/7/365.25
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Re: Business Lunch Protocol
« Reply #23 on: February 13, 2009, 10:00:02 AM »

[uneducated hick]   Anonymous Bricks Had no idea.   Well, luckily the events won't present themselves in my lifetime. [/uneducated hick]

I'm with stroh.

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