Contract Restaurants???
Sep 17, 2013 | 12:12 am
#76
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Taipei
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My company pays all travel expenses, e.g. airline tix, hotel stays, taxis, rentals cars, client dinners, etc. If you are staying a a relative's house during the business trip, you can claim half of the regular hotel cost as your own. Need to keep all the receipts though.
They also provide us with a daily travel stipend that is based on position, e.g. 50 for all non-managerial positions, $75 for section chief, $125 for managers.
Although they don't specifically pay for meals, usually one can keep most of the stipend by eating the breakfast included in the hotel stay, and lunch or dinner functions with the clients. Very rarely do one get to spend all of his/her stipend on food, unless you want to order a full five course room service every night.
They also provide us with a daily travel stipend that is based on position, e.g. 50 for all non-managerial positions, $75 for section chief, $125 for managers.
Although they don't specifically pay for meals, usually one can keep most of the stipend by eating the breakfast included in the hotel stay, and lunch or dinner functions with the clients. Very rarely do one get to spend all of his/her stipend on food, unless you want to order a full five course room service every night.
Sep 17, 2013 | 3:45 am
#77
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Western US
Programs: WN CP, WN A-List Preferred, AS MVPG 75k, SPG Gold, Hilton Gold, Hyatt Diamond
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There's a Denny's in my town that regularly sends people to the hospital to get their stomach pumped. I'll send you the address if you want, and you "eat" there on your next visit. "Eat" there breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Go all out, and order a bunch each time. Just don't eat any of it and don't give any to the bums outside either. That'd just be mean.
Next day call your employer and describe how horrendously ill you've become from eating at one of their recommended contract restaurants. You read the reviews online about how the Denny's almost kills someone weekly, but you took one for the team to follow company policy. Graphically describe what you'd imagine to be the worse case of food poisoning ever; colors, smells, etc. Randomly yell incomprehensible things about volume of lower GI tract and having a newly found appreciation for the movie The Exorcist. Go to the point of asking them to forward your company life insurance info to your beneficiary. Ask to change your beneficiary to the company to set up a memorial fund so none of your coworkers ever have to eat at Denny's again. Ask them to put you on speaker phone with the whole office so you can tell your tale, and you can live on through your coworkers stories. Then, congratulate them on contracting Denny's to kill you.
You'll likely be back to per diem by the end of the week.
Next day call your employer and describe how horrendously ill you've become from eating at one of their recommended contract restaurants. You read the reviews online about how the Denny's almost kills someone weekly, but you took one for the team to follow company policy. Graphically describe what you'd imagine to be the worse case of food poisoning ever; colors, smells, etc. Randomly yell incomprehensible things about volume of lower GI tract and having a newly found appreciation for the movie The Exorcist. Go to the point of asking them to forward your company life insurance info to your beneficiary. Ask to change your beneficiary to the company to set up a memorial fund so none of your coworkers ever have to eat at Denny's again. Ask them to put you on speaker phone with the whole office so you can tell your tale, and you can live on through your coworkers stories. Then, congratulate them on contracting Denny's to kill you.
You'll likely be back to per diem by the end of the week.