Employee Buys Train Ticket, Furious Boss Demands They Buy Plane Ticket At 3X The Cost

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Eric Lund
Nov 9, 2021 11:00 AM EST

Anyone who's ever worked for a big company has witnessed some insane wastes of corporate dollars, such as this time an employee was told to overlook a typo that ended up costing their company 90 thousand dollars. The weird thing here is that it really looks like management was just upset that an employee could get to have nice accommodations, even if they did get a deal. Well, it's their money, so they can do what they want.

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    Font - Posted by u/AlwaysTheNoob 2 days ago ,6 6 S9 I can only book travel in coach class? Okay. oc M Shortly before COVID brought all manner of traveling work to a screeching halt, I was finishing up a job and getting ready to book my travel home. Normally everyone would just fly, and in my case that meant a nice short trip of about two hours in the air. However, this particular location and the route back home for me had an extremely scenic train route that took about 12 hours. And as a bonus,
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    Font - I asked my boss if I there was any reason I had to fly instead of taking the train, as the latter would save them money, and he said it would be fine. I didn't waste his time or mine by mentioning any of the above details. I simply booked my ticket and immediately sent in the receipt for reimbursement. Not 20 minutes later, I get an email. Paraphrasing: "WTF is this? I thought you said you were going to book travel that would save us money. What do you think you're doing booking a sleeper
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    Font - Okay, as you wish: cue MC. Since this happened so quickly, I was able to cancel my $150 train ticket without issue. And since there was no way I was taking a 12 hour train ride in coach instead of a two hour flight, I booked my air travel like I normally would and immediately sent in the $450 receipt for my coach class flight. I got yet another email asking me what the hell I was doing. Now, I'm good at booking travel and I know how to find good prices. I knew that there wasn't a cheaper
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    Font - mario_almada · 2d Hahahaha I did the same damn thing! I booked a bus ticket home for a 10 hour bus ride home. It was an executive type bus that caters to business crowd. I'm talking all first class with huge chairs that lay all the way down to sleep. Got an email within minutes of booking that they were not paying for first class accommodations and to book coach. Turned around and booked coach flight home and ticket went from 190 to 450 dollars. Eck them!
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    Font - Dear_Analysis_5116 · 2d e So busy watching how the pennies are spent that they lose sight of the dollars. 2.0k Reply Share Report Save Apptubrutae · 2d Forever 21 heading into bankruptcy really embodied this. Apparently corporate travel expenses were approved by the CEO, who would nitpick coffee purchases and such. The CEO
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    Font - jayste4 - 2d Similar thing happened to me years ago. I found a first class airline ticket for less than coach. I booked it, was told nope, then I had to rebook and pay more for a coach ticket. Clearly, it wasn't about the money.
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    Font - mizinamo 2d That's like saying "No, you may not book a room in hotel A, because it's €82 a room and our travel policy only allows €80 a room in that city. But you may book a room in hotel B which is €79 a room and get reimbursed for the €14 each way taxi trip that you need because that room is much further away from the office."
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    Font - 0000001A - 2d I booked a business trip one time through work, and I realized since my wife was going with me and was a rewards member of the hotel chain where we were staying, I put the rooms in her name. This saved my work about $200 over 3 days because her reward level gave us free wifi, comped breakfast, and several other perks. When I turned in my receipts, you would think I broke into the safe and stole money. It took me multiple phone calls with supervisors to get the finance depart
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