Lunch Ethics (ctd.)

Dear Covert Consultant:

Your client is your friend. He is the hand that feeds you, the God you shall worship, the Power that Be. Without your client, you are a worm, a nothing, a zero. Without the ridiculously fat paychecks he keeps forking out for your pathetic efforts, you would be eating the dirt off the floor of the factory you are about to shut down. And you ask whether it is ethical to decline his lunch invitation ? This is not about ethics. It's about survival. Think again.

Yours truly,
The Ethicist


Dear Covert Consultant:

Ms. Manners can only think of one polite way of declining your client's invitation. Work through the lunch break.