Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
I've seen staff members (with too much time on their hands) go through travel schedules to verify whether meals were served on flights.
Is happy hour in a hotel or airport lounge considered to be dinner?
And how do they prove that you ate a meal on the flight? Maybe you weren't hungry? Maybe you were allergic to most of the food and decided not to eat? Maybe they ran out of food or the specific dish/food you wanted? etc. etc. etc. What about lounge access prior to the flight? Maybe you did or didn't eat some food there first? etc. etc. etc.
Originally Posted by
Often1
In a true per diem system, you are allocated a specific sum per day (or perhaps half day) and it is yours to spend or not as you wish. Many businesses use this system because it costs them a lot less to process as there are no receipts for meals. You are free to stick a loaf of bread, a jar of peanut butter and a jar of jelly in your bag and live of that if you wish.
If your employer has policy limitations, then you have to ask whether it is worth risking a job on petty fraud. Whether the employer's policy is a good one is not material to the question of whether it's worth the job.
Exactly. Not worth working for companies with dumbass policies.