Originally Posted by
annerj
I think I understand what you are saying. What I'm saying that a benefit to the company IS a benefit to the OP (at least the way I see it).
With all due respect, no way am I going to view situations like this in that kind of light. You think your manager sees it the other way around?
"Anything that benefits my employees benefits the company."
I can promise you they don't, no matter what they try to pretend.
Am I going to brag to my manager about saving them or the client one night's parking? Is he going to put that as a positive in my review? He'll probably think less of me for even bringing it up.
That kind of attitude shows
way too much faith in the fairness of management IMO. I don't have a trickle-down kind of philosophy in any manner. A benefit to me directly always benefits me more than a benefit to my company trickled down to me.
Especially when it is compensation for an inconvenience to me, personally, I'm not going to bear the brunt of the inconvenience, then let my employer be compensated for it... not if I can help it, anyway.
This is where we disagree. For the hotel to have to give special treatment because this is a company paid night doesn't make any sense. If they credit the night or the parking or whatever they shouldn't have to concern themselves with how the night is paid for (or by whom). YMMV.
I'm not blaming the hotel at all. I'm saying she's within her right to ask for different compensation that more directly benefits her.