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Has anybody out there read Robert Greene’s, The 48 Laws of Power? I don’t think I’d be very good at following it. Law 15 informs me to crush my enemy completely. Another law advises me to “Pose as a Friend, Work as a Spy” (Law 14). But the law that would be the most difficult for me to follow is Law 40: “Despise the Free Lunch.”

To that I say… what’s wrong with a free lunch? It’s free ain’t it? Don’t despise it. Admire it. Respect it. Love it. A free lunch is one of the main reasons to have a day job in the first place. I personally spend at least an hour each day at my job scouting around the office for left-over sandwiches, pasta or pizza from various meetings. It’s when I’m the most productive. 

And an even better way to score a free lunch is to be taken out by a sales rep. Through these generous sales reps I’ve been taken to such classy and expensive joints as Tao, Il Mulino, Gramercy Tavern, Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, and many others. Would I have gone to these high-priced establishments on my own? Hell no. Am I on track to be the next high-powered media mogul? Good point.

Maybe I should just write my own book titled, “The 48 Laws of Not Getting Ahead.” Then again a whole book would probably take a while to write. Better just make it a blog entry.  

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 15th, 2006 at 4:17 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.