What I’m interested in is his strip club latex managment.
But what if he preferred to face the peril?
And yet your thread title remains.
No, that’s not what happened. It’s not like people vanish away. The usual procedure is to get expenses reimbursed as quickly as possible, to avoid having people be out their own money. If a later examination reveals problems, they can always go back and demand repayment.
So the idea that expenses have to be somehow completely vetted before reimbursement is made is absurd.
It’s clear now that Brown submitted this as a reimbursable expense and was paid for it.
I would think that gearing up for an election cycle is when they’d want to have the most money. I mean, there’s only been three races in the last couple years that they had to spend any money on. Now we’re coming up on the 2010 midterms; that’s every member of the House of Representatives, about a third of the senators and half the governors. Shouldn’t they be sitting on a pile of money right now, geared up (as you say) to start fighting those battles? I think the term is “war chest”.
Or is this the Republican credo of spending during the good times so you have enough credit to get through the lean years?
'Scuse??? What company does that? Every company I’ve worked for or heard of (from friends/relatives/etc.) vetted the expenses BEFORE reimbursement.
Think this through a moment.
How could you thoroughly vet a claimed expense? Of course, you get a receipt. But any further checking is going to take some time. How long do you think people should wait for their reimbursements?
What really ticked me off about this story was the irresponsible way the other expenses were reported on. The newsreader was reporting thousands of dollars spent at a Beverly Hills hotel. They did not relate how many rooms for what length of stay for how many people or even if meals were part of that figure. I have had a hotel bill way over $2000, and it was not a luxury hotel. I was staying two weeks and paying for two rooms on my credit card to cover the cost of a co-worker from out of the country. They were reporting this as if on the face a bill for a hotel stay for over a thousand dollars was outrageous but not providing the context that actually supported that judgment.
No, no - it’s far too perilous.
Of course you want to get reimbursements back to people are quickly as possible. However, I think it would be reasonable to have HR/payroll or whatever actually read the expense reports, and spot-check any high-value items that sounded suspicious. “West Hollywood Voyeur” was probably one of the highest expenses on this trip, and has a somewhat shady-sounding name - it’s clearly not practical to check every expense, but it would have been reasonable to read the list of expenses, notice this particular expense was odd, and check it.
I know I live in the bubble and all, but I have to enter in a report in our expense management system that details such things. The expense management system is already populated by the transaction information provided by the credit card, so it would take some work for me to be able to conceal the source or nature of a company expense.
My director needs to approve my expense report before it goes into AP for further approval and reimbursement.
If I went to a sex club and didn’t get caught, it would be a pretty serious failure of internal procedure.
CUT
Blue Velvet
Geisha House
Star Garden
Now, without being a native or otherwise familiar with the area, and without hitting Google, tell me which one is the strip club, and which are trendy restaurants. All of these are establishments in the general Hollywood area.
I blame ACORN.
By my post above, I’m not excusing anything - just noting that even in a relatively well run system something could get approved that shouldn’t be.
If I see an establishment named Voyeur in LA, I might not automatically think it is a strip club. I might think it is a nightclub. A restaurant might not be out of the imagination either. And not looking the place up isn’t a capital crime - it is just a mistake.
Seriously?
OK, I see Mr Moto has already provided the sort of pop quiz I was going to do. So answer his question: which of those is the questionable expense?
Can’t he face just a little bit of peril? It’s his duty as a knight.
SAVED him? He paid $2,000 for a lesbian spanking, and never got one.
A bit more followup:
Why can’t they use Google? Aren’t they allowed to in the RNC offices?