Originally Posted by
alicegator
I hate the way my company tracks expenses. We "built" something in house and it is SUPER difficult to track and submit expenses because it takes a million clicks to get one expense done.
We are a pretty small shop and I only travel about 1X a month. I like everyone I work with. But the thought of filing my report is one which makes my skin crawl.
(Think Excel and Word and lots of manual scanning of receipts)
Please tell me I am not alone here with this!
Don't feel bad - I work for one of the largest employers in the world. We use an Excel spreadsheet for expense reports, and I have to scotch tape my receipts to printer paper in order to send them to an offsite location so
they can scan them to India to process the expense payment.
It's the most inefficient thing I've ever seen in my life. The dumbest part is, we have Concur for booking travel, why on earth can't we use it for expenses?
The amount of waste is deplorable. Wasting my time, wasting the time and money paying someone else to scan it, and a third person to process it. Wasting paper. Wasting scotch tape. Wasting a UPS expense to get these receipts elsewhere for processing. I seriously think this is like from the 80's or something.
I entertain some of the other folks in the office by singing the "picture pages" theme song while I'm taping receipts to paper.