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‘Surgeon smiled and told me not to worry’: Surgeon grants patient 18 months' worth of business-class flights, amounting to $20,000 in company expenses

If you comply with company rules, then you're all set and good to go, right? Well, not always. Sometimes your circumstances change, and what I mean by that is there can be a metamorphosis, a transformation, from old, to new, to ugly. In even simpler terms, new authority sucks.

One person got a set of instructions, hot off the press, that didn't resemble the instructions they were used to in the past, and those instructions led to a whole lot of cash being extracted from company expenses. u/Impossible_Remove_28 was set to have spinal surgery, and their recovery happened to coincide with a big company event that was going to be held in China.

OP traveled a lot at this job, but the company had merged with an industry giant, so the person who called the shots, no longer had much of a say in anything. Wanting very much to attend the company event, OP asked their superiors for permission to upgrade their flight to business class, as the surgery was tough on their back (duh), and they needed to lie down during the flight.

New management had new ideas, which included 'proof' that OP had surgery, otherwise, they weren't allowed to fly to the company event in business class. OP knew that their surgeon didn't have time to sign a 'doctor's note', and pretty much wrote off going to the company event. But, they attempted to maliciously comply anyway.

For more, here is a neighbor who got back at the neighborhood HOA for giving out notices of violations that they themselves were in breach of.

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Posted by Eleonora Bader
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