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ThurgreedMarshall · 10-11-2007, 04:13 PM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Wonk has probably been to Stanley's Kitchen & Tap here in the city. Home style southern cooking. Stanley's has $8 toasted mac and cheese, and I think it's underpriced. It's outstanding.

Moreover, Stanley's has a bottle of whiskey at the bar that anyone can drink for free. It's Kesslers - there's a reason it's free. They also serve FREE mashed potatoes at midnight. Plus, Frenchy from Goodfellas hangs out there.

Blackened poke chops? I will go there on the 23rd.

TM

Fugee · 10-11-2007, 04:14 PM

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Originally posted by Not Bob
As foolish as it is for lawyers to spend the same amount on [insert item of your choice here -- housing, food, cars, vacations, strippers and blow, etc.] as their banker clients unless it's work-related and charged to the firm or a matter?

If they have the same income disparity -- uh, yeah.

On the other hand, Thurgreed just wouldn't be the same happy-go-lucky fellow we all know and love without his princess bed and the quarterly trips to Patty Jane's House of Pain so there's that to consider.

Anne Elk · 10-11-2007, 04:15 PM

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Originally posted by taxwonk
How about Fat Albert? Does he still live there?

I thought Fat Albert lived in Philly?

ETA: STP

patentparanyc · 10-11-2007, 04:17 PM

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Originally posted by Fugee
If you brought your lunch you could control your caloric intake and save money. Because it's foolish for support staff to spend the same amount on food as the attorneys unless it's after hours and the firm is going to reimburse you.

I know support staff in Minneapple make around 35K or 45 or so. Here in TCOTU they make up to 80K not including OT.

Say hypothetically an atty is paying 3-3.5-4K for rent. And, he or she has student loans. Prob in the 100K+ range. I know one couple that between them it is around 200K-400K in student loans, undergrad and grad. Say hypothetically that attorney has to pay child support or other types of expenses, perhaps back taxes as often cited on Abovethelaw. So, they are making 200K but their tax bracket is higher and their expenses are too.

Or, take another scenario, a partner paying the monthly nut on a house in Greenwich, 2 luxury cars, the pool and grounds, country club fees and paying for college cash or expensive high school. Or, the partner has a brownstone in Brooklyn, an apartment in Park Slope that he is renovating and signing off on renovation bills for 30K at a time.

Now, say the support staff by default have to live in a cheaper area and have pared down their expenses to allow for a daily expenditure for lunch/coffee. Their car expenses are commesurate with their salary. As well, the company cafeteria is available on off days for cheap eats.

Everyone has to pay the 8 bucks for a nasty deli salad.

I had one senior equity partner say "8 bucks for a sandwich? that's a lot"

why else would everyone be all "NY to 190K?" it is expensive to live here for all. you know that. as well I see file clerks dropping 8 for a chix parm and you know they make less than me.

bold_n_brazen · 10-11-2007, 04:18 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
It's better than a mere pat. I'd rather scrape off the excess than have to ask for more.

This is an excellent life philosophy.

Anne Elk · 10-11-2007, 04:19 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
I'd rather scrape off the excess than have to ask for more.

A good life lesson there, we all know what happened to Oliver when he asked for more.

ThurgreedMarshall · 10-11-2007, 04:21 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I think that they charge $2.50 or something at the place that sells that for lunch here. The thing that keeps me from buying one (after one attempt) is the flagrant overuse of peanut butter on the sandwich. I like peanut butter as much as (or more than) the next person, but who wants to eat a half cup of it on a sandwich???

I must be ungodly wealthy, because I would not even flinch at paying $10 for mac and cheese or $5 for pb&j if that is what I'm in the mood for.

I like a lot of peanut butter on my pb&j (and it must be the smooth, filled with sugar brand, like skippy or jiff), but I also like a lot of jelly.

But I don't think I would ever buy a pb&j outside for myself. There's always something I want more.

Last year, I had to make my daughter lunch for school one day and just bought her a pb&j at a deli on the way. They declared a public health advisory, dressed everyone in hazmat suits and razed the building and had to start all over again.

Fucking pansy ass kids.

TM

Icky Thump · 10-11-2007, 04:22 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
hypothetical: say if you had "support staff" that actually hurt your productivity, wasn't much a speller, as an example, poor grammar skills maybe, etc. Talked non-stop so she was a big drain on the productivity of those around her, you can imagine someone like that.

Isn't it possible that an attorney working with this "net negative" support staff might give her money to purchase elaborate and long lunches, say on a day when lots of higher quality work needs to get done in the office?

I'm asking hypothetically.

Howzabout a 1 way bus ticket to Tijuana?

ThurgreedMarshall · 10-11-2007, 04:23 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
The same people who want an entire bar of cream cheese on their bagel?

This is not true.

TM

robustpuppy · 10-11-2007, 04:24 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
(and it must be the smooth, filled with sugar brand)

You like your peanut butter like you like yourself.

greatwhitenorthchick · 10-11-2007, 04:29 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I like a lot of peanut butter on my pb&j (and it must be the smooth, filled with sugar brand, like skippy or jiff)
TM

I like my peanut butter chunky and unsweetened, so that I can sweeten it with lots of honey before spreading it on my bread. Because the "sugar" that you speak of so fondly is in most cases HFCS, and I don't like that shit.

I like peanut butter cookies made with Jif, so perhaps I am speaking out of my ass.

patentparanyc · 10-11-2007, 04:30 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I like a lot of peanut butter on my pb&j (and it must be the smooth, filled with sugar brand, like skippy or jiff), but I also like a lot of jelly.

But I don't think I would ever buy a pb&j outside for myself. There's always something I want more.

Last year, I had to make my daughter lunch for school one day and just bought her a pb&j at a deli on the way. They declared a public health advisory, dressed everyone in hazmat suits and razed the building and had to start all over again.

Fucking pansy ass kids.

TM

Children have serious peanut allergies. They have those epi-pens and the teachers must be trained to use them.

This was more an issue in the private day school we checked out closer to the city. A mom was all "hi hi do you know how to use the epi pen in case my child has a reaction?" typical neurotic 100 pound whacked out on prozac city mom.

Thank God my kids do not have food allergies. Less of an issue in the school he's in now.

Not Bob · 10-11-2007, 04:30 PM

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Originally posted by Fugee
If they have the same income disparity -- uh, yeah.

Let's bring back the sumptuary laws for staff -- keeping them from eating lunch at Au Bon Pain and shopping at Nordstroms is for their own good, after all.

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Originally posted by Fugee
On the other hand, Thurgreed just wouldn't be the same happy-go-lucky fellow we all know and love without his princess bed and the quarterly trips to Patty Jane's House of Pain so there's that to consider.

Well, sure, but until his book is over $1 million, he can only play with Patty Jane's 7s and 8s. Coffee is for closers, after all.

ThurgreedMarshall · 10-11-2007, 04:30 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
You like your peanut butter like you like yourself.

I'm all organic, baby. Wanna taste?

TM

patentparanyc · 10-11-2007, 04:33 PM

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Originally posted by Not Bob
Let's bring back the sumptuary laws for staff -- keeping them from eating lunch at Au Bon Pain and shopping at Nordstroms is for their own good, after all.

Well, sure, but until his book is over $1 million, he can only play with Patty Jane's 7s and 8s. Coffee is for closers, after all.

She's very "Fugee Manor" which was fine back in the day, but now people are leaving law in droves or whining about leaving law or have left. So to get all hard about the disparity between staff and attys is tres counterproductive. Seeing as Loyola 2L and friends ain't getting no biglaw job due to the saturated market. WSJ had a piece on it. Some poor guy was like "who knew three years out I'd be uninsured and think that a great day was when a crackhead brought me 500 bucks"