I told my boss at that time that I considered travel for the company as part of my work hours, so if the need to travel arose I would expect extra compensation for the weekends. Or book the travel in business hours. That means:
- Book a conference for Monday morning that I needed to be on a plane the day before, I fly Friday to be there on time. - Likewise, book a conference for Friday that would have me flying home on Saturday, I fly on Monday. Since most of the meetings were booked for Monday to Wednesday or Wednesday to Friday, it meant I got to spend a lot of weekends at the destination cities, or waypoints in between there and home. It does mean that you'll spend much more time away from home, which if you have family or partner to deal with might be a negative thing. It often saved the company money as booking round trips that cross a weekend often costs less than round trips that do not, and I would usually pick up the tab for whatever additional accommodations I needed (although the company was good enough to pay for them about half the time anyway, and a good bit of the time I stayed with friends/acquaintances in those places and only had meals to account for). Godfrey On Dec 16, 2006, at 7:09 AM, Norm Baugher wrote: > Define this for me, sounds interesting... > Norm > > Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> It's simple: "I only fly for business on business hours." Told my >> boss that outright ... and he agreed. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
