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This is one of those areas that I never "got" in that I just filed expense reports for what I spent and didn't see the advantage of getting an extra $10 or $100

This is one of those areas that I never "got" in that I just filed expense reports for what I spent and didn't see the advantage of getting an extra $10 or $100 from the trip. And I knew people who loved to push it as far to the limit as they could, like a manager who had a private table at a Sunnyvale restaurant and filed a huge reimbursement request for 'team lunches' and a baggie full of receipts. Betting that nobody would actually go and verify the receipts. So at some point you have to be in a somewhat adversarial relationship with the company right? I suppose if you felt the company was taking advantage of you this would make sense as a way to 'get back', but wouldn't you rather be working somewhere else instead?

x0x0 8y ago
The only time I've done anything like this is when the company did their best -- using Concur -- to avoid paying legitimate expenses. ie we got into an argument over whether my taxi ride home from SFO was "too expensive". I was like, um, I got in the fucking taxi, told it my address, and paid the bill. My employer used Concur and stupid rules to argue me into giving up and just paying the taxi ride out-of-pocket. I'm pretty sure that was the point, and many of the stupid expense "fraud" companies would notch that as a win. But I made my $57 back elsewhere, don't worry. And yeah, the fix was get an employer that wasn't ass.
- Klathmon 8y ago
  Similar story here. I work remotely, and my previous employer wanted me to come up to the office for a few days as we did every now and then. But I didn't really want to go this time, I had other obligations, but ended up going anyway. Expense report time comes around, and they complain that I don't have the receipt from the rental car company that includes the gas refill information, so they aren't paying that, and they pushed back on the $7-per-day economy parking I had my car in for the week. So I looked over the handbook and some stuff in Concur, saw that I was entitled to like $10 for a breakfast each morning, and like $20 for dinner each night without a receipt. So I added a couple of those in there, it all added up, and they happily paid it... And while that alone wasn't a major reason I left the company, stupid penny-pinching stuff like it was a big part of it.

x0x0 8y ago

The only time I've done anything like this is when the company did their best -- using Concur -- to avoid paying legitimate expenses. ie we got into an argument over whether my taxi ride home from SFO was "too expensive". I was like, um, I got in the fucking taxi, told it my address, and paid the bill. My employer used Concur and stupid rules to argue me into giving up and just paying the taxi ride out-of-pocket. I'm pretty sure that was the point, and many of the stupid expense "fraud" companies would notch that as a win. But I made my $57 back elsewhere, don't worry. And yeah, the fix was get an employer that wasn't ass.

Klathmon 8y ago
Similar story here. I work remotely, and my previous employer wanted me to come up to the office for a few days as we did every now and then. But I didn't really want to go this time, I had other obligations, but ended up going anyway. Expense report time comes around, and they complain that I don't have the receipt from the rental car company that includes the gas refill information, so they aren't paying that, and they pushed back on the $7-per-day economy parking I had my car in for the week. So I looked over the handbook and some stuff in Concur, saw that I was entitled to like $10 for a breakfast each morning, and like $20 for dinner each night without a receipt. So I added a couple of those in there, it all added up, and they happily paid it... And while that alone wasn't a major reason I left the company, stupid penny-pinching stuff like it was a big part of it.