Two or three points:

a) this is a company employee. She gets a fairly handsome salary. Any additional "compensation" she gets should be on her own time

b) the guy who paid the freight on these rooms DID NOT know that this meeting planner took the points. When I gave him an FYI, he quickly recited two or three ways he would rather use the points (to save $ on hotel rooms for out-of-town guests)

c) I am not just meddling. I am keenly concerned about cost and what appears to be someone feathering her nest at company expense. Remember that $180M in expenditures is 1.8MM points. These points could "buy" (at an average of 20M points per night) 90 hotel nights. Here in Chicago that's a reasonable value of what, $125/night or $11 thousand bucks.

As far as I am concerned, absent full disclosure and agreement by the person responsible for paying the bill, this is the same thing as stealing office supplies or of charging personal trips to the company account.

Mike


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