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if you don't understand how expenses should work and what a reasonable expense is then you're not a culture fit for a company that relies on employees having co

by buryat 4y ago

if you don't understand how expenses should work and what a reasonable expense is then you're not a culture fit for a company that relies on employees having common sense.

paulcole 4y ago
OK, then the policy should be, “Have common sense, understand how expenses work, and what reasonable expenses are.” But their policy is “Spend our money like you are spending your own money.”
- akhmatova 4y ago
  The latter essentially translates to the former. They're just trying to drive the point home.
  - darkwater 4y ago
    Yes and no. If it's my money, if I don't spend it I will save it for another thing, so I have an incentive to spend less. I know they are trying to emulate the same incentive as a policy with that words. Personally I think that using the words "use common sense" would feel more honest.
  - paulcole 4y ago
    How is them being vague and not saying what they mean “driving the point home”?
eesmith 4y ago
I missed a step in your logic from "culture fit" to "common sense". I certainly know that "reasonable expense" is a cultural issue, and strongly related to family wealth. Someone coming from a working-class single parent family making $40K/year has a different idea of what "reasonable" means than someone from a professional class family with two working parents making $350K/year. Just because these two employees now make the same money working the same job position for the same company doesn't mean they both automatically have the same idea of what's "reasonable." For example, is it reasonable to get room service while at a hotel on company business? As someone from a $40K/year family, I never considered it until my boss mentioned it. So yes, it's a cultural mismatch. But the conclusion shouldn't be that I wasn't a cultural fit (because I came from a working class culture), nor that I didn't have common sense, but rather that a company's specific corporate culture needs to be learned, and explicit communications may help.
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by buryat 4y ago

if you don't understand how expenses should work and what a reasonable expense is then you're not a culture fit for a company that relies on employees having common sense.

paulcole 4y ago

OK, then the policy should be, “Have common sense, understand how expenses work, and what reasonable expenses are.” But their policy is “Spend our money like you are spending your own money.”

akhmatova 4y ago
The latter essentially translates to the former. They're just trying to drive the point home.
- darkwater 4y ago
  Yes and no. If it's my money, if I don't spend it I will save it for another thing, so I have an incentive to spend less. I know they are trying to emulate the same incentive as a policy with that words. Personally I think that using the words "use common sense" would feel more honest.
- paulcole 4y ago
  How is them being vague and not saying what they mean “driving the point home”?

eesmith 4y ago

I missed a step in your logic from "culture fit" to "common sense". I certainly know that "reasonable expense" is a cultural issue, and strongly related to family wealth. Someone coming from a working-class single parent family making $40K/year has a different idea of what "reasonable" means than someone from a professional class family with two working parents making $350K/year. Just because these two employees now make the same money working the same job position for the same company doesn't mean they both automatically have the same idea of what's "reasonable." For example, is it reasonable to get room service while at a hotel on company business? As someone from a $40K/year family, I never considered it until my boss mentioned it. So yes, it's a cultural mismatch. But the conclusion shouldn't be that I wasn't a cultural fit (because I came from a working class culture), nor that I didn't have common sense, but rather that a company's specific corporate culture needs to be learned, and explicit communications may help.

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