Originally Posted by BearX220
When I worked in network television news and automatically flew J internationally, stayed in four- and five-star hotels, had fixers and drivers and caterers everywhere, travel was indeed a sort of a perk -- even if we never saw much of the exotic locales we'd parachute into. As a young producer I was once put up for a week in a suite at the Beverly Wilshire... yeah, I can understand people wanting a bite of that.
In situations like this (not ignoring the rest of your post, just not relevent to my response) it isn't just the office-bound coworkers that may be a bit jealous, but your fellow FTers as well. And, is situations like this, I think the jealousy of the office bound (and FTers) should be accepted, and expected.