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MIT_SBM
Ask the firm for a 'reasonable' cash advance. Prepay your personal credit card so the funds are available. Or put the cash advance on one of those pre-paid/gift branded cards. Of course, you should expense the costs for such transactions to the business.
Your best option, in my opinion, is to express your concerns to your management. If they are reasonable people they will understand that you may not have ready access to the needed funds/credit and should be willing to work with you. On the other hand, what was the expectation set by management when you took your current position?
There wasn't. This is perhaps the third out of state travel I have done for them in 8 years, and the first two (as is this) are arguably not critical.
I guess it is a combination of several things - yeah, I carry very low revolving credit due to past experiences, so tying up a grand is a substantial amount. Reimbursement for our organization is a slow process - we are talking a couple of months (we are not private). So that means I also have to carry the interest as well.
Our purchasing department is being good about working with me on this. We just aren't sure what to do. As an organization we probably only do a dozen or so out of town travel trips a year, and even fewer are done by non-executive employees like myself. so this is in a way trying to find a better process.
So maybe the question is more how does your organization handle travel, and how would you LIKE them to handle it?