Employee gets double the mileage reimbursement from his company just by simply following their own handbook: ‘Be the pain that causes the change you want to see in the world.'

It is said that the best way to expose a bad policy, is to follow that policy exactly. Then it becomes glaringly obvious how flawed it is because you are constantly having to do the flaws. Once these mistakes keep happening and happening, it's hard not to see the source of the issue. That doesn't always work out, but when it does, it's called malicious compliance and we live for this stuff. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do and that can sometimes be to follow the rules. 

 

Here, we see a guy who was not getting his milage reimbursed for work.  

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  • He was forced to go out of his way to go to the office and then 45 minutes back out to the client's place and he would then always be late etc. etc. He tried explaining this to the company, but they did not care. They said a policy is a policy and he has to follow it. So he did, and then he alerted his coworkers that they too must follow the policy. You see where this is going? Soon, the issues were too huge to ignore. And guess what happened? The company changed their policy. lol

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  • "No mileage reimbursement for the first stop of the day"

    At my last job i lived 5 minutes from a customer i had standing appointments with first thing in the morning, twice. per week. The office was about 30 minutes away. I had another customer that was about 45 minutes from me that was over an hour from our office that i was at once per week.
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  • Management started refusing to reimburse my mileage because it was the "first stop of the day" and said use a company car if it's an issue. We had 2 cars for like 8 techs and one was permenantly assigned to someone.
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  • Can probably tell where this is going lol. I told them my work day starts at 8 and I'll be at the office to pick up the car at 8. They fought that at first but there wasn't anything they could do because the employee handbook clearly stated working hours.
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  • Unsurpisingly the car was never available so they had to reimburse me for way more mileage since i was taking my own car anyway and even when it was available i was extemely late to every appointment that we were contractually bound to. I
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  • might have let what I was doing slip to a couple other techs and within a week they removed the handbook from our shared drive and rewrote the policy for the next year to reimburse partial mileage for first-stop appointments but I quit well before it got rolled out.
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  • CoderJoe1 Be the pain that causes the change you want to see in the world.
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  • hunkyboy46511 The best way to get rid of a stupid policy is to follow it to the letter.
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  • amydaynow I worked for an engineering company where one of our suppliers had a similar policy to the one you dealt with. The sales representatives who worked from home only got paid from their first stop to their last, but not between home and the 1st or last stop of the day.
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  • The sales contact assigned to assist the company I worked for happened to live just a few minutes from our office. His solution was to visit our office a lot, basically every day. (Sometimes twice a day)
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  • If I sent him an email requesting a quote in the morning, he would be at our office in person to discuss it that afternoon, usually near the end of the day. If I sent a quote in the afternoon, the visit would be 1st thing the next morning. I loved how it worked in our favor. I felt like I got the best service from him, over any other vendor I worked with in my time there.
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  • No_Crew_478 With this sort of thing I always put my claims in from the office to where I'm working and back to the office. My office is my permanent place of work, our policy states that we can't claim for our commute. If I happen to go straight to my first appointment from home, I still claim as if I'm driving from the office to the
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  • appointment. That is the cost of the company doing business and using my car to their benefit. The fact that I've not been in the office shouldn't pad their bottom line, their cost for each customer should be static and calculable, I'm just helping them adhere to that.
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