> On Aug 21, 2017, at 7:36 PM, Phil Smith III <[email protected]> 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… A *LONG* time ago in the 1980’s I had set up to go to Guide in CA, after Guide I flew to Miami and then an Island I goto. What I used to do was always fly first class. The company only paid for coach, which was fine with me. I expensed the trip flying coach. Then the auditors got involved. The company was billed for coach both ways and when it came time I went first class. I went through the costs to the auditor and he grumbled. I asked him what was the matter? He said the company lost .25 cents in the whole transaction. I looked at him and dug in my pocket a 25 cent piece and handed it to him. I told him as I got up to leave I am not going to waste your time and my time on 25 cents. I thought he was going to ballistic on me. I closed the door and I could hear him swear up a blue streak. From then on my travel agent made the reservations on all my flights. I always reimbursed the company for the difference, I never heard from the auditor again. My boss cubed never did either.
Ed > > > > 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! > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
