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Old Aug 11, 2002 | 3:53 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by mileagerunner:
Using a corporate AMEX to buy personal US savings bonds sounds like a fool-proof recipe to get fired. Hope that won't be the case here, but the miles are not worth risking your job.</font>
Not necessarily. Depends on the policy of the individual company. At some places, the employee gets REIMBURSED for business expenses and pays the Amex bill him/herself (rather than the company paying the Amex bill). There isn't anything wrong with using the card for personal expenses, as long as the company isn't billed for them!!! The bottom line is, you must familiarize yourself with your company policy and follow it. (I don't at present have a corporate cc of any type, but did have one several years ago and this is how it worked.)

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