The entire State of California is supposed to migrate to Concur by now. I do not like Concur, but that's because of the limitations--which could be only within the State of California state travelers.

I've been having a sneaky suspicion that something may happen with hotels though. We had an all staff meeting about Concur and for some reasons, the instructors pointed out that MARRIOTT is by far the MOST EXPENSIVE brand of hotels in California. I thought it was an odd comment because we get $120 (most counties) and either they have state rate or they don't. However, when I see the list of hotels that auto populate, I see a lot of hotels well below the state rate and I have a sneaky suspicion that we may be headed in that direction. I don't know how they can make you stay at a hotel FAR below the union set per diem, but I didn't think they could force us to use Concur for our airline/car and hotel reservations either.

Seriously....if I have to forfeit Marriott (or Hilton) and start staying at really cheap properties because they are less than state rate, I would be okay with a, dare I say, office job. Sorry...a little spit up just came up because the thought of an office job day in and day out nearly makes me want to jump off a bridge, but I would definitely consider it because it's why I travel.

I see a few changes coming down the pike with Concur (currently, we can't make changes on airline coming home from trip--which happens all the time--there are still bugs in the program so we have to CALL someone at Concur...last time I did this in January, I was on hold for 43 minutes). Yeah, that is a very efficient system--NOT!

Dawn