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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Strange.  Every office I’ve worked at, if you bring your own lunch, you bring the container back home.

I’ve never heard of office dishes.[/quote]

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Curious - is this common in certain industries like high paying ones (law firms, brokers, consulting, etc)?[/quote]

There's a general view in law firms that it's to the firm's advantage to do as much as possible for timekeepers, so that all their time at work is focused on billables. It's not an irrational view when they're billing put $800+/hour, billed in 0.1 or 0.25 hr increments. [/quote]

Law firms have nice China for working lunches with clients etc. Paper for everyone else.  Kitchen staff to do the cleanup.  The efficient firms I’ve worked at made it very easy to never have to leave the building.  Postal services, check cashing, dry cleaning etc., runners specifically tasked with making deliveries, no need to schedule a courier service. Runners to run between individual offices if you need something to go from one floor or department to another.  In-house dining rooms that serve hot breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Every thing is taken care of so that billers can keep billing.  If you are a receptionist washing dishes or a secretary picking up dirty dishes from an out box you are just at the wrong firm.  [/quote]

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