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Why? Why would you expect a software engineer working for a nonprofit to look at discount airline economy class tickers?
by nebolo 9y ago
Why? Why would you expect a software engineer working for a nonprofit to look at discount airline economy class tickers?
- bo1024 9y agoI mean, maybe it's just the culture I am used to, but I would expect everyone/anyone to be looking at discount airline economy class tickets by default.
- ghaff 9y agoWhy? You're working. You may well be traveling on your own time. I travel within guidelines but that doesn't mean traveling in the cheapest possible way even if it's more painful than it has to be.
- bo1024 9y agoI'm not arguing for cheapest way possible no matter how painful, just that I am used to a cost-conscious approach by default that starts at the cheap options and works upward and that's what I would tend to expect in this scenario.
- ghaff 9y agoYou specifically referred to discount airlines which in my limited experience with them are mostly pretty awful to start with.
- fdej 9y agoAs an academic who travels a fair amount, I try to pick the cheapest available flight (within reason), and I've certainly never even considered flying business class. I think flying business class is permitted under certain conditions if there's still money in our travel budget, but it wouldn't feel like a good way to use taxpayer money. I think I would feel the same way working for a nonprofit funded by donations.
- praneshp 9y ago> but it wouldn't feel like a good way to use taxpayer money Thanks. Curious, because this comes up on HN now and then: Do you make your research public? I understand this might not just be in your hands though.
- ShinTakuya 9y agoBecause they're spending funds donated by people who were sold on the idea that Wikipedia was desperate for cash? If its own employees aren't trying to do simple things to save cash here and there I'm certainly not inspired to send money their way.