Originally Posted by
djk7
2) Buy $3000 ticket, upgrade with SWU, take $1500 TSP payment = $4500, company saves $1500, director arrives at destination more rested and ready to be productive than he would in Y. I see no problem with this, but this seems to be where the difference of opinion here lies.
Well I know my company isn't every company, but there is no ethical question on this one at mine. In fact we have a department-wide ethics refresher after Thanksgiving because a coworker was just let go for the situation described in 2). It's a little bit murkier in your situation, but you also picked numbers that work pretty well. So here's what happened here:
*Coworker A buys a $4000 J ticket as he is allowed to.
*Coworker B takes the $1000 (our company's amount) to buy a Y ticket (to save the company money). The lowest available Y ticket is $1000. So, the company should save $2000. She, however, bought the lowest upgradeable fare and upgraded with miles. That ticket was $2400. The company only saves $600 (and spent $1000 to save that $600).
The introduction to the company policy on the $1000 payment actually reads: "This policy was created to give the employee an incentive to forgo premium class travel to save the company the
maximum amount possible."
The maximum in this case was $2000, but the company only saved $600