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> But unless you're a highly placed executive no one travels on the company dime often enough to bother with air miles anyway This isn't really a true statemen
by wenc 8y ago
> But unless you're a highly placed executive no one travels on the company dime often enough to bother with air miles anyway
This isn't really a true statement. Marketing and enterprise sales folks travel a lot on the company dime. I'm on the engineering and consulting staff in my company, and I travel a decent amount, mostly domestic. Most of our engineers do frequent on-sites. One might not be able to get status, but the air miles definitely add up. I've been able to get more than a few free flights and upgrades. I would say it's worth bothering about.
- jstanley 8y ago> This isn't really a true statement. I'm pretty sure he was talking about the company he works at, not the company you work at.
- wenc 8y agoFair enough. I read that as a generalized statement. My bad.
- technofiend 8y ago> Marketing and enterprise sales folks travel a lot on the company dime Yes, my bad. I just meant at my employer; we've invested heavily in telepresence, so only the bigwigs here get to travel with any regularity. And I was really trying to say without regular travel you won't end up with a meaningful status. For example United has a raft of tiers so unless you're [1] 1K or Global Services [2] you're literally not at the front of the queue for anything. Even their "Group 1" / "Group 2" boarding system meant to speed things up has a giant asterisk that reads "except 1K/GS, they go before anyone else." [1] I'm using the colloquial "you" here to really mean "one" which sounds very stiff and formal to me. I don't literally mean you. [2] https://thepointsguy.com/2017/08/united-global-services-in-2017/ https://thepointsguy.com/2017/08/united-global-services-in-2...
- wenc 8y agoI understand now. My apologies for misunderstanding. Thank you for clarifying.