Originally Posted by
CJKatl
As mentioned up-thread, this is my beef with being locked into the corporate contracts. Staying within budget is considered in my personal bonus calculation. I could stay somewhere for $150 or somewhere for $175, with the company ultimately getting back $40 for that stay. Even though the second room ultimately costs the company less, my budget is hit for the full initial cost and never credited with the rebate. On top of that, we are hit for a booking fee each time we use the corporate booking tool.
Not getting the rebate is much better than getting socked with a penalty.
Our Telecom department would bill all departments based upon usage at standard rates, but then when the actual bills showed up they would randomly choose a department to "allocate" any overage (funny how there were no underages, that we know of) and there was no fighting it. So if you were close to budget and your department came up for the hit, BAM! Fortunately my management believed in being a good corp citizen and rolled back the uncontrollable costs from facilities/corporate when measuring performance.