travel thread

[pissclams]

In two weeks, i'm going to a vendor fair at Southern Illinois. Work wants me to drive there and back in the same day ----> . Anyways, they gave me the choice of renting a car or using my own and getting mileage for it. Boss says you can make more $ by taking your own car, but I don't want the mileage on my new car. What would you do?

Choose mileage option.    Rent car on your dime.   Pay for it with mileage check.   Profit.

This.

this is the way to go if your company will let you, smart ones won't though

don't see why they'd have a say.  He has the option to take mileage or have a company paid rental.   The IRS doesn't even care if you claim mileage on a rental vs. your own vehicle.

when most companies send you on a business trip, they're going to dictate how you get there as a way to control time and cost

"hey clams, need you to go to ethiopia"
"ok, i'll drive"

[420seriouscat69]

Since i'm a team player, i'm doing this bitch. Everyone freaks out about staying on budget, so i'll go with it. Leave at 9 am, get there at 1, lunch, setup and vendor till 5 and back by 9. Sleep in the following morning and come in. As long as this isn't a common trend, I can play along.

[star seed 7]

Get in an accident and sue them

[420seriouscat69]

Get in an accident and sue them

Kinda the plan.

[meow meow]

#teamplayer

[MakeItRain]

Wouldn't it make more sense just to get a hotel? When you live in the Midwest driving four hours is meh.

[420seriouscat69]

Wouldn't it make more sense just to get a hotel? When you live in the Midwest driving four hours is meh.

I guess, but i've already allocated my trips for the quarter and we've never made a relationship with this school before. I guess if you add a hotel to the budget, you also add in another day for the rental car and food. This would not be happening if it was at Carbondale tho. That's for sure. Not worth the risk.

[Tobias]

they can afford it

[MakeItRain]

Wouldn't it make more sense just to get a hotel? When you live in the Midwest driving four hours is meh.

I guess, but i've already allocated my trips for the quarter and we've never made a relationship with this school before. I guess if you add a hotel to the budget, you also add in another day for the rental car and food. This would not be happening if it was at Carbondale tho. That's for sure. Not worth the risk.

If you truly have an issue with driving the 8 hours in one day, and they absolutely won't pay you should consider taking on the additional expense on your own, it's completely tax deductible; hotel, meals, and the car.

[420seriouscat69]

  Yeah, I know they can afford it 'bias, I guess i just feel they have bigger crap to focus their time, energy, and expenses on.

Good pro tips, MIR. TY!

[kim carnes]

Wacky's company sounds gross.  Some sort of nationwide dental chain restaurant corporation.  Like, why is that necessary and who the eff would actually visit one of those?

[Mikeyis4dcats]

In two weeks, i'm going to a vendor fair at Southern Illinois. Work wants me to drive there and back in the same day ----> . Anyways, they gave me the choice of renting a car or using my own and getting mileage for it. Boss says you can make more $ by taking your own car, but I don't want the mileage on my new car. What would you do?

Choose mileage option.    Rent car on your dime.   Pay for it with mileage check.   Profit.

This.

this is the way to go if your company will let you, smart ones won't though

don't see why they'd have a say.  He has the option to take mileage or have a company paid rental.   The IRS doesn't even care if you claim mileage on a rental vs. your own vehicle.

when most companies send you on a business trip, they're going to dictate how you get there as a way to control time and cost

"hey clams, need you to go to ethiopia"
"ok, i'll drive"

And that's where it ends.   The company should only care about paying mileage or the reimbursement for travel.  If he chooses to rent a car himself for his own reasons, what does that change anything?     If he told them he'd drive, then the day of his car wouldn't start and he rented a car, why would they care if they aren't expected to pay for it?

[Mikeyis4dcats]

Since i'm a team player, i'm doing this bitch. Everyone freaks out about staying on budget, so i'll go with it. Leave at 9 am, get there at 1, lunch, setup and vendor till 5 and back by 9. Sleep in the following morning and come in. As long as this isn't a common trend, I can play along.

wait, so you're only going to be at the vendor fair for like 3 hours?   I think we assumed you were doing a full day.

eff, we had a PM and a supt. drive all the way to Little Rock Sunday to look at a job and were back in the office by noon Monday and worked the day out.

[Institutional Control]

Why are you sleeping in the next day?

[420seriouscat69]

I don't know, I might not. It's only from 2-5 PM.

[The Big Train]

[meow meow]

 

[mocat]

i've had to drive to Tulsa and back in the same day for work. i mean, i could have stayed there but why the F would i want to stay in that god forsaken state overnight? 

[pissclams]

In two weeks, i'm going to a vendor fair at Southern Illinois. Work wants me to drive there and back in the same day ----> . Anyways, they gave me the choice of renting a car or using my own and getting mileage for it. Boss says you can make more $ by taking your own car, but I don't want the mileage on my new car. What would you do?

Choose mileage option.    Rent car on your dime.   Pay for it with mileage check.   Profit.

This.

this is the way to go if your company will let you, smart ones won't though

don't see why they'd have a say.  He has the option to take mileage or have a company paid rental.   The IRS doesn't even care if you claim mileage on a rental vs. your own vehicle.

when most companies send you on a business trip, they're going to dictate how you get there as a way to control time and cost

"hey clams, need you to go to ethiopia"
"ok, i'll drive"

And that's where it ends.   The company should only care about paying mileage or the reimbursement for travel.  If he chooses to rent a car himself for his own reasons, what does that change anything?     If he told them he'd drive, then the day of his car wouldn't start and he rented a car, why would they care if they aren't expected to pay for it?

what's so confusing?
a company is going to pay for their employees to take the low cost option which in this case is renting a car.

[Emo EMAW]

Tulsa is awesome tho.  At least you can make one night of it awesome. 

[mocat]

i've had to drive to Tulsa and back in the same day for work.

i was home by 6:24 pm

proof:

http://goEMAW.com/forum/index.php?topic=25275.msg1420977#msg1420977

[420seriouscat69]

What am I missing here? Do I really have two non-traveling dorks like TBT and M^2 making a big deal out of this? I'm not surprised.

[420seriouscat69]

Tulsa is awesome tho.  At least you can make one night of it awesome.

I would think Tulsa and St. Louis are on the same shittiness level tho.

[star seed 7]

Sleep in if you feel like it, that's still a long day

[420seriouscat69]

Sleep in if you feel like it, that's still a long day

Yeah, it's what my company would want anyways. They tell ppl to do that all the time who travel late.