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porkface posted:uh oh Get the mobile passport app. You still have to wait in line at the final customs check, but you get to bypass all the confused old people trying to figure out the passport scanner kiosks.
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Space Gopher posted:Get the mobile passport app. You still have to wait in line at the final customs check, but you get to bypass all the confused old people trying to figure out the passport scanner kiosks. Rad, thanks!
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Anyone in here savvy with the changes that are coming with the upcoming Marriott/SPG merger? My Marriott lifetime is at 540 nights and 742,480 points and I'm currently gold elite. Will I get grandfathered into lifetime platinum elite based on nights or do I also need to have the minimum points?
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You’ll need the 1.6 million lifetime points if you’re trying to get it with the old criteria. The good news is you might already be eligible for lifetime gold in the new program if you have enough years of status.
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Looking for advice on how to get an employer to reimburse expenses in a timely fashion, I can't seem to find a legal basis for this: Wife travels constantly for work and is not issued a company credit card (which is ludicrous given the org and her title but that's another fight), so she's basically paying out of pocket for thousands of dollars of expenses every month. She submits reimbursement reports accurately and on time and they just sit in queue waiting to be review for, at times, up to 3 months. I'm dipping heavily into savings to make our cashflow work out so that we never incur interest charges. This is loving infuriating, again given the size of the org and her position. Can I start billing them interest? should I mock up a quick invoice for each month's expenses in arrears based on the rate I WOULD pay on the credit card, were I not able to float them the loan every month?
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Aug 4, 2018 18:33
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Gunshow Poophole posted:Looking for advice on how to get an employer to reimburse expenses in a timely fashion, I can't seem to find a legal basis for this: put all the expenses on a dedicated, 'business card' and bill them interest, yeah
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Aug 4, 2018 18:40
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Rex-Goliath posted:put all the expenses on a dedicated, 'business card' and bill them interest, yeah Yeah that won’t get caught up in an even worse approval process.
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Aug 4, 2018 21:02
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Gunshow Poophole posted:Looking for advice on how to get an employer to reimburse expenses in a timely fashion, I can't seem to find a legal basis for this: Tell her to find an equivalent job at another company that's not lovely. One of the first things I was told by co-workers and friends in my business was "don't work for anyone that won't give you a corporate card" and despite how much I could profit on my own cards, it's not worth it putting everything on my own cards.
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Cacafuego posted:Tell her to find an equivalent job at another company that's not lovely. One of the first things I was told by co-workers and friends in my business was "don't work for anyone that won't give you a corporate card" and despite how much I could profit on my own cards, it's not worth it putting everything on my own cards. I worked for a smaller company that didn't issue corporate cards, however their expense turnaround was incredibly quick; I'd often have funds hitting my bank 3 days after submitting the report. Situations like that are great because you can use your own high-rewards cards and rack up serious points. I got a lot of travel out of that. I am at a much larger company now (that bought the smaller one) and have a corporate card, in fact I am mandated to use it and have to fill out another form if I use my personal card. Which is fairly standard. No corporate card + up to 3 month wait for reimbursement though...that's just lovely. That's transferring their cashflow problems to employees.
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Initio posted:You’ll need the 1.6 million lifetime points if you’re trying to get it with the old criteria. Yikes! Thanks, I obviously will not hit those points by year's end, even though I am switching over to an Autograph Collection hotel. I'll get gold on years then, at least.
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so who else got hosed by those northeast storms? i decided to go down to new york for the weekend instead of taking my trip home to pittsburgh. i was supposed to be home friday night at 11 and i’m seeing that my flight *still* hasn’t made it. supposed to have left this morning at 8 am and it’s been pushed back every hour all day
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I don’t know about everyone else but if I was able to put expenses on my own personal card I’d easily make over a grand and likely much more. My previous supervisor did this, he owned a third of the company and put everything on his personal cards. All of his exotic golf trips were entirely free.
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nikosoft posted:Anyone in here savvy with the changes that are coming with the upcoming Marriott/SPG merger? My Marriott lifetime is at 540 nights and 742,480 points and I'm currently gold elite. Will I get grandfathered into lifetime platinum elite based on nights or do I also need to have the minimum points? I’m incredibly disappointed with the merger. Marriotts rewards aren’t that great but they have so many hotels.
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sellouts posted:Yeah that won’t get caught up in an even worse approval process. If they're so lovely that they won't pay within the on average ~55 day interest free window then gently caress them. They should be paying the interest. I'd keep it all to a separate card though.
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Tab8715 posted:I don’t know about everyone else but if I was able to put expenses on my own personal card I’d easily make over a grand and likely much more. Yeah I’ve been to the Maldives 3 times on this in some capacity. Totally worth the hassle.
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Fists Up posted:If they're so lovely that they won't pay within the on average ~55 day interest free window then gently caress them. They should be paying the interest. They shoudl be, butt unless you have it in a contract they aren't obligated to and chances are pretty high the employee handbook or equivalent states that the person is responsible for any interest or late fees.
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I found two AA business sAAver seats on the outbound leg to NRT, but all of the return legs are AAnytime only so they're expensive as hell. I'm wondering if it would be better to book two one way tickets - one using miles for the outbound leg and then using credit card points to book the second leg as a revenue ticket and then burning two SWUs instead of using four SWUs on normal round-trip revenue ticket.
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Burn SWUs if you won’t use them otherwise because Saaver availability usually means they’ll clear at booking. Otherwise take the guaranteed seats with miles and save swu for when you need to clear at the gate.
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thanks for the earnest replies to my question. in short: lol great "get a new job" that strategy bears so much fruit these days we already track expenses on a dedicated card, makes it way easier the legal framework doesn't exist to charge the company interest and yeah lol it'd get flagged and doubled down on for additional review. asur is correct there's no contractual obligation that they even pay expenses which is double lovely it's 100% down to her boss not approving poo poo in a timely fashion so we're discussing literal work stoppage-level tactics to get his rear end in gear
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Gunshow Poophole posted:it's 100% down to her boss not approving poo poo in a timely fashion so we're discussing literal work stoppage-level tactics to get his rear end in gear At my last job a guy was running into this problem so he stopped submitting his timesheets containing his billable hours at the end of the quarter while emailing essentially everyone above him that they weren't getting it until they reimbursed his expenses. If I recall correctly that got them to finally hustle. They could also decide to fire her so ymmv I dunno what you want us to tell you
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We good I'm half venting at this point, I appreciate the experiences that have been posted
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Gunshow Poophole posted:We good I'm half venting at this point, I appreciate the experiences that have been posted I realize she may be stuck in a lovely situation, but her employer is bad and she should consider finding one to work for that is not actively loving you both. I’m not flippantly suggesting that she look for a new job. Assuming she’s skilled/educated enough to have gotten a job where she travels, she should at least be looking for a new job, especially in this economy. I would in her situation.
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sellouts posted:Burn SWUs if you won’t use them otherwise because Saaver availability usually means they’ll clear at booking. I ended up booking with miles on JAL through American. 80k miles per person one way for first class, which is only 20k more than booking business with American.
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Gunshow Poophole posted:thanks for the earnest replies to my question. in short: If she goes on trips.constantly, she could just refuse to go on the next one until the previous one is paid under the pretext that she can't afford to pay for it.
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psydude posted:I ended up booking with miles on JAL through American. 80k miles per person one way for first class, which is only 20k more than booking business with American. You can drink the difference in miles in Hibiki / champagne while on the ground if you hustle enough. The business class champagne on JAL is Delmotte too.
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Gunshow Poophole posted:thanks for the earnest replies to my question. in short: Quit your whining, you understand it's a lovely situation, do what you have to do. By the way, it's the hottest labor market in a generation, so if you can't get a new job you're either grossly unqualified for the one you have now or you're too obstinate to look.
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Cacafuego posted:One of the first things I was told by co-workers and friends in my business was "don't work for anyone that won't give you a corporate card" and despite how much I could profit on my own cards, it's not worth it putting everything on my own cards. Sidenote: United hosed me on my trip to Bangalore and I got rerouted on Delta and Jet Airways. Not impressed with Jet Airways and the a330 I flew from AMS to BLR. It was better than the Air France a330 I took last year, but not nearly as nice as Delta's a330 that I was on from DTW to AMS. I'm hoping my return on Lufthansa is still OK so I can get a few more 747 flights in. DJCobol fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Aug 7, 2018 |
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There were crazy storms all over the country today wreaking havoc and my last leg (PHL-PVD) flew at 7000 feet. Really weird being so close to the ground the entire way.
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DJCobol posted:I completely disagree, but I guess I'm lucky that I have a really good reimbursement policy. My expenses are usually direct deposited into my bank account 3-5 days after submission and approval. Using my own card to rack up points and miles has been a HUGE benefit that I will certainly miss in the future if I ever get off the road. Well, sure, if your company has a good reimbursement policy and will allow you to do that, by all means, that's certainly the best. In fact, I'd do that if I could. I'd guess most places either won't let you do that, or take forever to reimburse though. taco show posted:There were crazy storms all over the country today wreaking havoc and my last leg (PHL-PVD) flew at 7000 feet. Really weird being so close to the ground the entire way. Did you get to buzz Block Island really low? I like the PHL-PVD route. Despite having no options for eating in the terminal, PVD is a pretty good airport. They sell local beers in the gift shops there. I'd prefer PVD to BOS for most flights.
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More Than Cutting Costs: Travel Managers Now Consider Employee ComfortThe New York Times posted:Corporate managers used to focus on one thing when it came to employee travel: saving money. I don't know about the the rest of you but as someone who's almost on a plane every other week if I'm thrown into dingy hotels, shoved in the back of the plane, forced to uber and fed scraps I'll immediately send out my resume and go to greener pastures. I know it's 2017 but meeting customers in person still hasn't come close to conference call bingo.
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My boss asked if I could go to South Africa again. I told him sure - if they flew me Business. The customer didn't want to pay for that so they're on their own. 
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Rumor has it that a major e-commerce firm in Seattle has rigged their travel policies so that flights from SEA to most places in Asia fall short of the business class requires threshold.
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Cocoa Crispies posted:Rumor has it that a major e-commerce firm in Seattle has rigged their travel policies so that flights from SEA to most places in Asia fall short of the business class requires threshold. Mine (not in Seattle) are fairly straightforward: Under a certain rank and you are flying in the back, you filthy animal, even if you circumnavigate the globe. At or over a certain rank (which is fairly senior, though not just management) it's by time, 6 hours continuous (on any segment, so they don't make you fly coach to the coast and then business over the water, for example). Low-ranked individuals can get exceptions granted to this, but it is an involved process that needs to be done each time you fly. If you are one of the poor bastards who work for us doing billable time at any rank it's up to the client and you can probably guess what most of them request. Though some big clients mirror their own policy for consultants and allow it depending on length of trip, etc. What this means in practice is senior sales people and management usually fly business overseas on a regular basis and for other senior people it's an occasional bonus. I'm one of the latter; I fly overseas 6-8 times a year and when I got promoted I thought this perk was better than the raise, which shows you how Stockholm syndrome-d I am.
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KillHour posted:My boss asked if I could go to South Africa again. I told him sure - if they flew me Business. The customer didn't want to pay for that so they're on their own. We've adopted a policy of charging for business on any flight over 10 hours. Fortunately, most partners and customers realize that an extra $3000-$4000 really isn't that much in the grand scheme of things.
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Cocoa Crispies posted:Rumor has it that a major e-commerce firm in Seattle has rigged their travel policies so that flights from SEA to most places in Asia fall short of the business class requires threshold. The majorest e-commerce company in Seattle is the reason for the thread title and it was certainly not in business.
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taco show posted:There were crazy storms all over the country today wreaking havoc and my last leg (PHL-PVD) flew at 7000 feet. Really weird being so close to the ground the entire way. ha yeah my manager was supposed to fly home yesterday at 5:30 but then got bumped back to 10 when he got through security. i guess he got bumped again after i went to bed because i got a text from him at 4:30 am telling me he’d finally gotten home. fuckin woof
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Glad your manager felt the need to txt you at 430a about mundane travel delays.
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So Avis is giving 10% back to Amazon Prime subscribers in the form of online gift cards. Anyone figure out how to get that to work? That's.. a lot of free Amazon poo poo over the course of a year of travel. Edit: Figured it out - you have to log out of your Avis account first, then log in with Amazon, then it offers to link the accounts if you look in the tiny print. But I don't think you can combine the offer with a corporate code so it's probably against most people's travel policy. If it isn't, though, you could make out like a bandit. KillHour fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Aug 8, 2018 |
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