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It's been a very long week... this was supposed to be an off-Friday, but I had to go to a parter site and work all day. So, 52 hours on my timecard this week, not that I will get any extra $ for my trouble. I was hoping to spend today in bed getting over my cold, but... no dice. Oof.
There is a new travel reporting system at work, and it involves the home office paying the corporate account off directly for items charged to your corporate card while on travel. You are required to use the corporate card for all possible items while on travel. You are then required to file a trip report online and mail all of your hardcopy receipts in a special envelope to a special address via company mail. The only problem is, you can't do this while you're on travel because you have to be at your office to file. So, if you get sent on travel several week in a row, or if your travel arrangements cross a corporate card billing cycle boundary, you get "behind" from the corporate card perspective and they start complaining at you, sending you threatening letters, and charging you late fees. The home office, which writes the process for all of this rigamarole, have decreed that they are perfect and that any late fees that appear must be the fault of the employee, and will not be reimbursed. So, they set you up to fail and gleefully clap when you get stuck in their trap. Grrr. I've been on travel for 4 out of the last 5 weeks or so, usually with less than a week's notice, not counting local pop-up assignments. So, I've had little opportunity to keep on top of the mess and am a bit put out. Further, they have decreed that any filings not received by 12/7 will not be paid until 2008, so if you get sent on travel the first week of December you are guarantee to be late with not a darn thing you can do about it.
Feh.
Obviously I'm tired and cranky, so I'm going to go watch Mythbusters or something. :-)
There is a new travel reporting system at work, and it involves the home office paying the corporate account off directly for items charged to your corporate card while on travel. You are required to use the corporate card for all possible items while on travel. You are then required to file a trip report online and mail all of your hardcopy receipts in a special envelope to a special address via company mail. The only problem is, you can't do this while you're on travel because you have to be at your office to file. So, if you get sent on travel several week in a row, or if your travel arrangements cross a corporate card billing cycle boundary, you get "behind" from the corporate card perspective and they start complaining at you, sending you threatening letters, and charging you late fees. The home office, which writes the process for all of this rigamarole, have decreed that they are perfect and that any late fees that appear must be the fault of the employee, and will not be reimbursed. So, they set you up to fail and gleefully clap when you get stuck in their trap. Grrr. I've been on travel for 4 out of the last 5 weeks or so, usually with less than a week's notice, not counting local pop-up assignments. So, I've had little opportunity to keep on top of the mess and am a bit put out. Further, they have decreed that any filings not received by 12/7 will not be paid until 2008, so if you get sent on travel the first week of December you are guarantee to be late with not a darn thing you can do about it.
Feh.
Obviously I'm tired and cranky, so I'm going to go watch Mythbusters or something. :-)