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'She cost the company $300+ for all work trips': Frugal employee turns business trips into lavish vacations after his boss nitpicks his expense reports

Work trips can be a bummer. Not only are you leaving your real life behind and traveling to a random midwestern city, but usually the futility of your visit is palpable, making you think to yourself, 'This meeting probably would have sufficed as a phone call'. So why do businesses insist on making business trips mandatory? Executives will argue that it's because they're maintaining important relationships with their clients, but if you ask me, it's because they just want to get an all-expenses-paid vacation. Whenever I see out-of-towners in a fancy suit roaming around downtown, I'm almost positive that they're getting the prime steak and bottles of champagne on the company's dime, while also getting a lavish, free vacation. "It's for the client"… Mmmhmm, sure buddy.

Just charge the company card, right? 

Well some employees feel guilty about this frivolity, none more than the hero of this story, u/Notsurenotyou, a frugal employee of a Fortune 500 company who traveled for work regularly. He would take public transit, portion his meals, and find the cheapest red eye flights just to save the company some money, but when his boss started nitpicking his expense reports, he decided to make his receipts look exactly like the other executives– town cars, 3-square meals a day, and the nicest hotels that money could buy. Scroll for the full story!

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Posted by Jesse Kessenheimer
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