Exactly. There are rules for claiming business expenses and naturally one of them is that you can only claim your own meals, not the meals of every random person you end up meeting...
That depends on the company. A lot of corporations just want to make sure that it's good enough for tax purposes. Business meetings and lunches can have multiple meals. No one had to cover her meal . Whatever happens to her job is on her.
I'm sure there are business trips and business lunches where you can claim meals for other parties involved, but usually that involves parties you do business with or network with, not some randoms you've met. Or you would have to be rather high up in the chain.
I think it's more likely she was just going to get compensation for her own meals and it's a little strange that some randoms she met expected her to pay for their meals just because she gets compensation for business expenses.
As @popsy and @lihea have said- it depends. Many jobs require entertaining or having business lunches and the sort with clients. She isn’t from their company so it’s likely that either A: their company is her client, or B: a possible perspective client. So it is entirely possible to put an entire business lunch on one card. However- she may have a perdiem or a “cap,” and there may also be limits to expenses such as wether drinks are included, how much gratuity can be left, etc. my company has very specific rules about exactly what it a submittable expense. You charge whatever to a “P card” and then when you submit the expenses you notate anything you know that isn’t approved, and anything you miss they’ll charge you back. Of course- it’s also an age old scam for cash to pay legit group expenses on a company account and pocket cash so it can go either way. Not enough evidence to condemn her.
When its reffering to your self and another party for example"My mother and I went to lunch"
"A girl and I went to lunch"
The girl in the title was not the plural the colleagues were thus "The girl came to lunch with my colleagues and I" is the correct, but in general its a really bad way of wording the sentence
The trick is if you can replace with "us" then it should be me. E.g The teacher called us. The teacher called Mike and me. If you can replace with "we" then it should be I. E.g We were called by the teacher. Mike and I were called by the teacher.
Look at these two sentences:
My father is taking me and my friends out to dinner.
My father is taking my friends and I out to dinner.
In this case, the first sentence is correct. The test is to shorten
the sentences:
My father is taking me out to dinner.
My father is taking I out to dinner.
Now you can easily see that the first version is correct. You would not say:
My father is taking I out to dinner.
Therefore, you would not say:
My father is taking my friends and I out to dinner.
The correct version is:
My father is taking me and my friends out to dinner.
What you would say is not always correct. For instance: “It is me, Mario.” Or “It was me who told the teacher.” Those are both wrong. “I” is used when the speaker is the subject of the sentence. When you are saying you are Mario- you are the subject. So “it is I, Mario” is correct in formal English. HOWEVER- it is perfectly acceptable in conversational English to use “me” or “I” interchangeably in many cases. Most people do not generally speak in formal English and so what people say and what is formally correct is not the same- but what is “right” is contextual. One should not in general, write a letter to a formal institution or superior in a hierarchy in informal English. However, effective or natural conversation between peers can often be hurt through overly formal speech, and with an unknown entity it may even give a negative impression of the speaker as haughty or out of touch.
Who is performing the action? What is the direct object, and what is the object of the preposition? If the speaker is not the subject of the sentence- use “me-“ So “I went home” not “me went home.”
“Give the ball to me” not “give the ball to I.” It can get complicated where multiple nouns or pronouns are involved. And I didn’t mean disrespect or to argue @shiftingsands. It can help to “sound things out,” but just know that sounding odd isn’t always a slam dunk that something is wrong. In the case of “me” it is used as an object pronoun. That means that either it is the object of the pronoun or the direct or indirect recipient of the action of a verb. Without the “PR girl” the subject is the speaker, who went to lunch with their coworkers. “I went to lunch with my coworkers”= “my coworkers and I went to lunch.” So it hinges upon, with the addition of the PR girl- who is the subject- the speaker, or the PR girl? That will give you your answer.
I think it's more likely she was just going to get compensation for her own meals and it's a little strange that some randoms she met expected her to pay for their meals just because she gets compensation for business expenses.
'a girl came to lunch with I'
Need I say more?
"A girl and I went to lunch"
The girl in the title was not the plural the colleagues were thus "The girl came to lunch with my colleagues and I" is the correct, but in general its a really bad way of wording the sentence
My father is taking me and my friends out to dinner.
My father is taking my friends and I out to dinner.
In this case, the first sentence is correct. The test is to shorten
the sentences:
My father is taking me out to dinner.
My father is taking I out to dinner.
Now you can easily see that the first version is correct. You would not say:
My father is taking I out to dinner.
Therefore, you would not say:
My father is taking my friends and I out to dinner.
The correct version is:
My father is taking me and my friends out to dinner.
“Give the ball to me” not “give the ball to I.” It can get complicated where multiple nouns or pronouns are involved. And I didn’t mean disrespect or to argue @shiftingsands. It can help to “sound things out,” but just know that sounding odd isn’t always a slam dunk that something is wrong. In the case of “me” it is used as an object pronoun. That means that either it is the object of the pronoun or the direct or indirect recipient of the action of a verb. Without the “PR girl” the subject is the speaker, who went to lunch with their coworkers. “I went to lunch with my coworkers”= “my coworkers and I went to lunch.” So it hinges upon, with the addition of the PR girl- who is the subject- the speaker, or the PR girl? That will give you your answer.