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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How many more free things are available to the rich who don't need them. I was fortunate to grow up UMC in NJ but I totally noticed this when I arrived in NYC biglaw. My law firm -- free breakfast every morning; lunches at least 2x/wk through some CLE, lunch meeting etc; cookies in the afternoon. All of this is in the "attorneys lounge" -- so not available to the secretaries, support staff, janitors etc. who were living paycheck to paycheck on 40k or less in NYC. We didn't need the free breakfast -- associates can spend $5 on a bagel and coffee; yet for someone who is paycheck to paycheck, that $5/day savings is $25/week that can pay a half a month of electric.[/quote]

I was support staff in Biglaw while in grad school, and many of us lived off the leftovers from all the free food floating around.  The maids took stuff out of the attorney's lounges around 11 am and we pounced on it.  Partner's lunch leftovers at 2:30 pm -- gone before the caterer could show up.  Same with all the CLE lunches.  At holidays, the partners, would hand me basket of stuff that my roommates and I froze and lived from through March.  Pasta baskets were very big at the time!   Staff lounges where I worked had free coffee and tea, so that wasn't a problem.  [/quote]

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