myalphabet

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by myalphabet 7y ago
The company I have experience with using personally-backed corporate cards has been around for a century, has hundreds of thousands of employees, and billions of yearly profits. While I'm sure that your comment is true, 'maturity&
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by myalphabet 7y ago
That is interesting. I've only used AmEx Corp cards with a personal guarantee and wasn't aware there was any other way. For anyone else who stumbles across this comment: AmEx offers Corporate cards both with or without a personal
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by myalphabet 7y ago
>The company collects all the rewards Erm, no they don't. I personally collect all of the rewards from it. I have a nice fat account of AmEx MRs (and plenty of hotel and airline points) thanks to all of my corporate card spend. edi
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by myalphabet 7y ago
I suppose that's true and I would probably be worried about that if it was a smaller company or a company that had a real possibility of not being able to pay the bills. At my company that pulls in billions per year and has hundreds of
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by myalphabet 7y ago
Yes, the employee. Why do you think it's shady? In my years of working in and around people with the same setup I've never heard of any complaints, and I know most of the other large consulting companies do it the same way. AFAIK
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by myalphabet 7y ago
The AmEx card I used was 100% a Corporate card (not a Business card) and definitely did require a personal guarantee. edit: After some searching, it appears AmEx offers corporate cards both with and without personal guarantees, and it'
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by myalphabet 7y ago
Wait, how do these cards work, then? The corporate cards I've used (eg AmEx Corporate) did indeed require a personal guarantee and a personal social security number from each individual who had an account.
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by myalphabet 7y ago
This is my biggest concern. Regardless of if WeWork can 'survive' a recession, my fear is that they could easily cause a recession. If WeWork starts to go under, it could cause a real estate market collapse in some of the world&
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by myalphabet 7y ago
Why does every thread about Rails on HN devolve into a thread bashing Django? Do Rails users have some kind of "little brother complex" compared to Django? Every Django thread on HN usually involves a healthy amount of discussion