Originally Posted by Athena53

A slight tangent to the thread on who owns the miles for business travel.

A couple of years ago, 2 of my direct reports went to a seminar in Las Vegas. No official events till a welcome reception Sunday night- they left Saturday planning for some R&R and paid for their own Saturday night stay. Their flight out of DFW was overbooked and they volunteered to be bumped, with the result that their flight got them there Saturday evening instead of Saturday afternoon.

The head Bean Counter claimed that the flight vouchers they got belonged to the company. I fought him on it- if they'd been bumped voluntarily and had been late to the meeting, I would have nailed 'em to the wall, but they're not that type of people and this clearly wasn't the case. My boss backed me up and they got to keep the vouchers.

What does your company do?

(Edited to correct typos.)