The Travel Thread

[PhDhawk]

Careful about tips too. Some places won't reimburse you if you tip over a certain percentage. But whatever that percentage is you should max it out.

[ousdahl]

Yeah, like I said, management never identified any limits.

I dunno if that was by design, or just cuz they aren’t proactive about a thing.

[CrimsonNBlue]

Ya, and if you want to go on another one of these, don't be the guy that expenses $1000/day.

[Deleted User 89]

Print off the email receipt.

^^^^^
easy peasy

[NewtonHawk11]

My work trips have always been itemized receipts, but can't go too crazy. Think the most I spent in a day was $100. But I also drove my car there, so mileage was always high for me. 3 hour drive at $0.57/mile added up pretty quick. But between a $15-20 lunch and a nice place to eat dinner, you shouldn't go too crazy.

[jfish26]

Yeah, like I said, management never identified any limits.

I dunno if that was by design, or just cuz they aren’t proactive about a thing.

Don't turn in anything you'd feel uncomfortable answering for. For companies that don't have massive accounting departments (and, chicken-and-egg I guess, very specific policies), it's really just a smell-test thing.

[CrimsonNBlue]

But that strip club had a buffet!

[ousdahl]

Yeah, imma be modest. Gourmet doesn’t do much for me, so I doubt even my fanciest dinner will be more than about $20 bucks.

I mean it’s not like there’s an Olive Garden in Missoula.

[ousdahl]

Ohhh I wonder if there’s a strip club!


How funny would it be if I presented all these itemized receipts for $1 apiece?

[ousdahl]

And then I tipped Bambi...and then I tipped Trixie...and then I tipped Destiny...and then I tipped Angel...

[TDub]

Oh so Mercedes and Lexus dont get tips? Asshole.

[Deleted User 89]

But that strip club had a buffet!

hookers and blow, bud...hookers and blow

[zsn]

I travel a lot for work (flown over 100k miles each year for the last 5; over 200k in 2017) and essentially all my expenses during travel are completely reimbursed. Also my company has a rather generous (and clearly stated) travel expenses policy. I have gotten nowhere near the limit for each meal. You are being put to some difficulty for having to travel on behalf of company business, and so some "luxury" is warranted.

Here is my rule of thumb: I don't seek out a restaurant that I wouldn't normally go to if I was going out to eat on my own dime - maybe something towards the higher end of that scale, but not overly so. However, I will not also eat "fast-food". As for alcohol, one/two drinks per meal (beer/wine) is reasonable, again applying the above metric. Typically, I end up with a bill of under $10 for breakfast, $15-20 for lunch and around $40-50 for dinner - this is in a typically expensive locale. Often breakfast is included at the hotel, and our business partner brings in lunch. Bottom line is that use common sense, and try to stay within the "this is what I would have done when I go out on my own**" lines. At my company itemized receipts are required for any expense over $25 - to discourage people who eating hamburgers and expensing $100 bottles of wine!

**I realize that for some people this is rather wide latitude

[ousdahl]

Man, DIA sucks.

Security line backed up a quarter mile before you even get to the corrals.

Took damn near an hour to get through

[CrimsonNBlue]

Hopefully you went to Root Down for breakfast. One of the best airport restaurants in the country.

[ousdahl]

Despite my encouragements to just go somewhere for breakfast and keep the receipt, the chick from work I’m traveling with brought bagel sandwiches, wtf.

[jhawks99]

This is going to end well.

[ousdahl]

Lol actually we already dated a couple summers ago.

Now it’s like a Jerry and Elaine thing.

But with fishing!

[jfish26]

Yeah, imma be modest. Gourmet doesn’t do much for me, so I doubt even my fanciest dinner will be more than about $20 bucks.

I mean it’s not like there’s an Olive Garden in Missoula.

Go to Tamarack.

[jfish26]

Despite my encouragements to just go somewhere for breakfast and keep the receipt, the chick from work I’m traveling with brought bagel sandwiches, wtf.

My first work trip was when I was in intern at a large bank, between junior and senior years of college. The trip was to...somewhere in Iowa? Cedar Falls or Waterloo, something in there?

Anyway - my "boss" checked us into the hotel, and handed me my key. We proceeded to the elevator and up to whatever floor was needed. I followed him out of the elevator, and into the room he walked into.

He turned around, quite confused at what the hell I was doing.*

I, being a novice business traveler (and a college student at the time, unfamiliar with the luxury of having, you know, your own room), had just assumed we had to share a room.

* Yes,I know there's some easy jokes to be made on these facts. Have at it.