What happens when your boss is in on the scam?
$90 a day just for food? It was a lot less the last time I spoke to someone on a government per diem.
I retract my complaint. I don’t think I could even spend that.
Sales. Ugh. In the past, I’ve worked for a living making the company’s sold products work at clients sites and the clients happy despite the commission based thievery, incompetence and lies of sales.
(Personally, I’m a firm believer that at least 10% of sales staff should be lined up against a wall and shot on an annual basis, but based on a metric that they know absolutely nothing about.)
It does not surprise me a bit that they’d try to scrounge a $2.50 fare, but then it wouldn’t surprise me if they submitted the same receipt 20 times as well as all the gasoline receipts from family, friends,
neighbors and unguarded trash bins on a monthly basis. In my experience, Marketing = Grifting, and as long as top brass knows this & keeps them sufficiently well leashed, the company will continue to be a going concern.
I know its a cost control; I get that. And that its no fun for you either, granted. For all I know, in the corporate world, we’d get along pretty well. In truth, however, you are a Shining Star above some people (who really do exist)
who get off on imposing double and triple work that ads no additional efficiency to the office and no profit to the bottom line. There really are those people who personally get off just on just giving people a hard time and want
some “brownie point” to star when they blow their own horn on their self-review at the end of the year. I’m just glad that you never have to deal with any of those idiots…
Actually it’s $72.85 for meals, plus a further $17.30 for incidentals, for a total of $90.15 CDN per day.
Expensify looks pretty decent. I’m scheduled to be on the road for pretty much the rest of December. I’ll give it a try.