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If your job wants you to fly, it should buy you an id that lets you fly. Have you never applied for a visa to travel on a business trip?

stonogo 8mo ago
yes, if there's one thing the working poor are known for, it's successfully extracting money from their employers. if uber wants you to rideshare, they should buy you a car, right?
- raw_anon_1111 8mo ago
  How many “working poor” have jobs that require business travel?
  - stonogo 8mo ago
    If the answer is more than "zero" then the fee is harmful. Since I've been in similar positions (specifically as a contractor, where I had to front-load expenses and submit for reimbursement), it seems pretty likely to me.
    - raw_anon_1111 8mo ago
      Yes so we are going to optimize an entire system for this mythical “working poor” business traveler? Every contractor has to do that. That’s the price you pay for going into that business (reason #999 thet while I work in cloud consulting I work full time for consulting companies). Even as a business traveler, I have to pay my own expenses and wait for reimbursement.
      - stonogo 8mo ago
        I wasn't aware anyone had made the argument that this was an attempt to optimize anything. It's pretty obvious nobody's optimized anything in the TSA, ever.
        raw_anon_1111 8mo ago
        It’s pretty optimal if you have TSA PreCheck + digital ID. I fly in and out of ATL - the busiest airport in the US and one of the busiest in the world - I walk up to the TSA line, look at the camera , scan my ticket. Then I take my wallet and my phone out of my pocket and put in my book bag, let it go through the scanner I walk through the scanner and grab my bookbag This is the same process we did flying back from Costa Rica and London last year with the addition of showing our passport. Everyone acts like this process is so much different than any other country. Except for not having my book bag on me, it’s the same process to get on the “Chunnel” from London to Paris

stonogo 8mo ago

yes, if there's one thing the working poor are known for, it's successfully extracting money from their employers. if uber wants you to rideshare, they should buy you a car, right?

raw_anon_1111 8mo ago
How many “working poor” have jobs that require business travel?
- stonogo 8mo ago
  If the answer is more than "zero" then the fee is harmful. Since I've been in similar positions (specifically as a contractor, where I had to front-load expenses and submit for reimbursement), it seems pretty likely to me.
  - raw_anon_1111 8mo ago
    Yes so we are going to optimize an entire system for this mythical “working poor” business traveler? Every contractor has to do that. That’s the price you pay for going into that business (reason #999 thet while I work in cloud consulting I work full time for consulting companies). Even as a business traveler, I have to pay my own expenses and wait for reimbursement.
    - stonogo 8mo ago
      I wasn't aware anyone had made the argument that this was an attempt to optimize anything. It's pretty obvious nobody's optimized anything in the TSA, ever.
      - raw_anon_1111 8mo ago
        It’s pretty optimal if you have TSA PreCheck + digital ID. I fly in and out of ATL - the busiest airport in the US and one of the busiest in the world - I walk up to the TSA line, look at the camera , scan my ticket. Then I take my wallet and my phone out of my pocket and put in my book bag, let it go through the scanner I walk through the scanner and grab my bookbag This is the same process we did flying back from Costa Rica and London last year with the addition of showing our passport. Everyone acts like this process is so much different than any other country. Except for not having my book bag on me, it’s the same process to get on the “Chunnel” from London to Paris