New micromanager scolds employee for using the company credit card for meals while working overtime, employee decides to write individual expense reports for everything they buy moving forward: ‘By week two, Dave's inbox was flooded’

The perk of being a corporate employee is that sometimes, they'll give you access to a company credit card for you to use within reason. The company expects you to use your discretion to make responsible purchases, and only purchases related to work are covered. Sounds like a good deal to me. Pens are pricey nowadays, and those work lunches add up. If my company is paying for my Chipotle bowl after 6 PM, then I'll probably never leave. That's just me, though.

Unfortunately, having access to the golden company credit card isn't always what it's chalked up to be. Some higher-ups prefer to micromanage your spending because they distrust you, which, in all fairness, isn't abnormal. Surely, many employees wrongfully use company funds for personal reasons, but since we're almost always on the side of the small guy, we'll have to turn a blind eye to those tales…

In the next story you'll read, you'll meet an employee who uses their company credit card to cover dinner meals when they are stuck at the office after hours working overtime. The employee explains that they don't use the card for meals every day, but within reason, they feel that the company should cover these one-off costs when they and their colleagues are expected to work beyond regular working hours. Whether you disagree with employees having access to company cards or not, you have to admit that the company should, at the very least, be covering employee dinners when they are forced to remain in the office. It's only fair.

A newer higher-up wasn't a big fan of this behavior, so he told the employee to use their own card, then write up an expense report so they can be reimbursed instead. Challenge accepted. The employee proceeds to write up expense reports, alright. An individual one. Every time they purchased something. Sent directly to their boss's inbox. Good luck reading all of those reports, Dave. Scroll to read about the fallout, which includes colleagues following in this employee's footsteps en masse.

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