Originally Posted by
LaserSailor
Bruce..I'm glad that's your former employer. I do professional placements as part of my business, and for any job involving heavy travel, I always force a copy of travel policies out of the client before any interview. About 10% of the time HR refuses to do this, at which point I scratch them and send a memo up the C level about it.
If a company thinks your travel time is worth only 100 bucks over lowest fare in today's world, you don't want to work there.
To be fair, justifying a higher-priced ticket wasn't too difficult. One justification that always worked was a desire to take a non-stop flight rather than two (or more!) flights with a connection. Another reason was schedule: If the cheapest flight was at night, but your meeting was in the morning, then you couldn't take the cheap flight (without staying overnight, at even greater expense). So, I never had a problem, but some people did.
I was just trying to make the point that employers, in general, aren't idiots and will protect themselves against employees buying unnecessarily expensive plane tickets. That's what responsible employers should do!
Bruce