Originally Posted by
ajnz
A colleague and I offered to share a 2 bedroom/2 bathroom suite a few months back and were given some seriously shocked looks - it would've been beneficial for the company (save $140/night), and for me (stop me having to walk 20 mins to the office).
I also recently travelled to a conference where there was accommodation available in University dorm rooms (conf. was at a University during summer break), and was given some very surprised feedback that I stayed in the $50/night dorm rather than the $150/night hotel.
Were they shocked / surprised in these cases because they were used to seeing employees trying to milk the company for excessively expensive hotel rooms (or subsidizing their airline mileage runs), instead of employees choosing less expensive travel?