The Boss Who Wanted a Free Feast Got a Million-Dollar Lesson

The department had just closed a big deal, and the director came strolling over to my desk.

"Cece," he said. "Tonight's celebration dinner is at your family's revolving restaurant. We'll buy out the place. Consider it your chance to shine, treating everyone."

"Don't worry, I won't let you eat the cost. I'll have finance cut you a two-hundred-dollar bonus afterward. See? I look out for you, don't I?"

At my family's restaurant, a single table started at two thousand.

A two-hundred-dollar bonus, and he wanted to freeload a hundred-thousand-dollar buyout?

I smiled and turned him down.