Work trip to Germany was quite good. The travelling was easy, as was spending three days in the company of people from work (one from my office, one from one of the German offices
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Everyone has said all this already, but clothes, boggle, but actually if work's told you to and they're safety kit for on site, that makes sense. Alcohol, never ever ever for civil service / NHS, but your work should have a policy.
Also, some offices have a per-dium, which can be 'whatever you do when you're abroad, we give you 25 pounds a day for food and drink etc, no questions asked' or 'whatever you spend when you're abroad, you can't spend more than 25 pounds a day on food, it's an upper cap, but we'll only pay you for what you did spend' Worth checking, because it's clearly a guideline as to what _they_ think is reasonable.
Yeah, that's been the common response. See comment to woodpijn below -- maybe it's not so much "what's normal to expense" but "what's normal for work to pay for?" And yes, my work SHOULD have a policy, but there doesn't seem to be anything that actually reflects reality.
Also, some offices have a per-dium,Yeah, IIRC we don't officially, but we're advised to use the German office's domestic per-dium as a guideline when in Germany (which we were broadly in line with
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I think a per-dium is a good policy, because it's simpler and fairer. If you're cash strapped, it's a salary perk for 'going away from home' which doesn't seem evil, and if you're wanting to live the high life in new and exciting foreign cities, you don't have that weird 'I want to buy 15 pounds of steak, but I'm only comfortable expensing 10 pounds on dinner, I can't get a receipt for 2/3rds of my steak' problem
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If you're cash strapped, it's a salary perk for 'going away from home' which doesn't seem evil, and if you're wanting to live the high life in new and exciting foreign cities, you don't have that weird 'I want to buy 15 pounds of steak, but I'm only comfortable expensing 10 pounds on dinner, I can't get a receipt for 2/3rds of my steak' problem.
Yeah, that definitely seems reasonable.
I think is the start of a slippery slope that means anyone who takes more money in wages than the bare minimum they need not to starve and have a roof over their head is somehow doing something 'wrong'.I think I see what you mean, but I don't think that's quite what I meant. If expenses are routinely approved up to $20, and everyone expenses exactly $20, rather than sometimes less, that suggests that they feel they can't afford NOT to, either because they're coming out behind financially and need to compensate, or because everyone else is getting the maximum perks possible, and they feel like a chump for not doing so. As in, it's a symptom of unclear
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If I was Supreme Dictator of the policy, I think I would have a no-questions-asked per-dium, which would be OK, but not huge, and then a policy that more than the per-dium could be paid with receipts and formal approval of expenses.
Southampton university offer(ed) [some rate per day] or [submit receipts], your choice. I imagine that mostly people would take the day rate if it were more than their receipts - or if it were a bit less or similar amount and they couldn't be bothered to track receipts.
Also, some offices have a per-dium, which can be 'whatever you do when you're abroad, we give you 25 pounds a day for food and drink etc, no questions asked' or 'whatever you spend when you're abroad, you can't spend more than 25 pounds a day on food, it's an upper cap, but we'll only pay you for what you did spend' Worth checking, because it's clearly a guideline as to what _they_ think is reasonable.
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Also, some offices have a per-dium,Yeah, IIRC we don't officially, but we're advised to use the German office's domestic per-dium as a guideline when in Germany (which we were broadly in line with ( ... )
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Yeah, that definitely seems reasonable.
I think is the start of a slippery slope that means anyone who takes more money in wages than the bare minimum they need not to starve and have a roof over their head is somehow doing something 'wrong'.I think I see what you mean, but I don't think that's quite what I meant. If expenses are routinely approved up to $20, and everyone expenses exactly $20, rather than sometimes less, that suggests that they feel they can't afford NOT to, either because they're coming out behind financially and need to compensate, or because everyone else is getting the maximum perks possible, and they feel like a chump for not doing so. As in, it's a symptom of unclear ( ... )
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Southampton university offer(ed) [some rate per day] or [submit receipts], your choice. I imagine that mostly people would take the day rate if it were more than their receipts - or if it were a bit less or similar amount and they couldn't be bothered to track receipts.
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