Originally Posted by
GUWonder
Indeed it was reported and confirmed that a volunteer was rejected when having asked UA for an expiring, funny money UA voucher good toward $1600 of travel. UA was too miserly to accept a reasonable offer like that and instead decided to run up the IDB stats instead of running up the VDB stats. Bad form, United.
Given that $1600 was likely considerably more than the amount the GA had to 'play with', it's not especially surprising (nor relevant) that it was rejected.
After the fact, sure, they'd have paid Dao whatever it takes to make it go away, but before the fact, staff won't just give away money they are not authorized to give away and shouldn't be blamed for it either.