On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 7:36 PM, Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> wrote:
> I love it when companies nickel-and-dime on expenses. Do they really think > that folks aren't gonna get it back some other way? A friend was once > challenged (by Finance, not his manager) over a dime for a pay toilet. His > manager came to him and said "Just bury it somewhere else"-he realized it > was stupid, but not a winnable fight. Probably a firing offense for both, > but c'mon... > > I may have told this story, but I was at a customer site in Chicago about > 15 > years ago. At lunchtime, it was clear that as The Vendor, we were buying. > That was fine with us until the customer headed down a street that > dead-ends > at the river, and we realized that the only sign we could see was for a > strip club. My cow-orker and I were sharing glances and muttering "YOU get > to expense this one". > > > > Fortunately, just short of the club, the customer veered into an > almost-invisible hole-in-the-wall deli, so we didn't have to try to fight > that battle! > > How times have changed. I only turned in an expense report one - 2 weeks in a class in St. Paul. I filled out the report based on my receipts. My boss rejected it because IT WAS TOO LOW! I guess it made everybody else look bad. He instructed me to fill it out with numbers near those which were "recommend" on the form. -- If you look around the poker table & don't see an obvious sucker, it's you. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
