'My employer wouldn't approve $4 above our rate': Company forces traveling employee to book a cheaper hotel, not realizing it'll cost them over $300/day in overtime hours

When employees attempt to navigate company budgets, usually they have to cut through an outrageous amount of red tape in order to get anything adjusted. Obviously, in the real world, budgeting is simplified with a little leeway, but when it comes to businessmen traveling on the company dime, if you're just a penny over budget, there will be heckity heckin' heck to pay. In this case, a traveling employee found himself in a pickle when traveling for work, only to flip the switch on his boss and take advantage of a silly system.

OP was traveling for work and, because of a local event in the city he was visiting, he was unable to find a hotel room within the approved company budget. In lieu of sacrificing his comforts and settling for a grungy motel, OP was able to haggle the hotel clerk down to just $4 over his company's budget, hoping they could make an exception so that their employee could stay in the city and close to the action.

Well, naturally, with no wiggle room in the financing department, OP's boss immediately dashed the idea of paying for a room that was $4 over budget and opted for their employee to stay at in luxury suite over 2 hours away from the convention, just because they had marginally cheaper rooms. Scroll to read on about how OP turned a huge inconvenience into a tiny stacation, logging overtime hours and costing the company hundreds for their penny-pinching ways. For more cheapo bosses who put their traveling employees in a bind, check out this story of a global salesman forced to fly coach who got revenge in the best way.

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Posted by Jesse Kessenheimer