(Foreign) client thinks MY loyalty points are his. Discuss.
Feb 23, 2009 | 11:49 am
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Feb 23, 2009 | 1:27 pm
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Feb 23, 2009 | 7:50 pm
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Feb 23, 2009 | 8:22 pm
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Feb 23, 2009 | 11:51 pm
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@ OP: Yhpm !
Congrats, every company that puts 12K miles over a satisfied and motivated business partner is insane and this mentality will certainly cause problems further down the road if you dont clear your position right away ^
Cheers,
Congrats, every company that puts 12K miles over a satisfied and motivated business partner is insane and this mentality will certainly cause problems further down the road if you dont clear your position right away ^
Cheers,
Feb 24, 2009 | 4:27 am
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here's my 2 cents worth: one needs to take this to the bottom line if possible
I'd put up with a lot from a really juicy account, including foregoing FF miles, provided the end result was worth it
money talks. get enough of it and you can replace most of the stuff you miss out on by accepting seemingly unreasonable customer requests. elite status is something else, of course. not sure I'd want to make a lot of MR's to compensate for client grabbing miles I'd flown on their behalf.
I'd put up with a lot from a really juicy account, including foregoing FF miles, provided the end result was worth it
money talks. get enough of it and you can replace most of the stuff you miss out on by accepting seemingly unreasonable customer requests. elite status is something else, of course. not sure I'd want to make a lot of MR's to compensate for client grabbing miles I'd flown on their behalf.
Feb 24, 2009 | 6:49 am
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money talks. get enough of it and you can replace most of the stuff you miss out on by accepting seemingly unreasonable customer requests. elite status is something else, of course. not sure I'd want to make a lot of MR's to compensate for client grabbing miles I'd flown on their behalf.
EQM are invisble miles that cant be redeemed for anything so even if the client takes the RDM, the EQM count towards your status.
Also as noted I would (if at all) surrender my base miles but thats about it. The elite bonus is my personal gain as I worked towards this benefit independent from this particular client.
Feb 24, 2009 | 7:12 am
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What does that have to do with anything
EQM are invisble miles that cant be redeemed for anything so even if the client takes the RDM, the EQM count towards your status.
Also as noted I would (if at all) surrender my base miles but thats about it. The elite bonus is my personal gain as I worked towards this benefit independent from this particular client.
EQM are invisble miles that cant be redeemed for anything so even if the client takes the RDM, the EQM count towards your status.
Also as noted I would (if at all) surrender my base miles but thats about it. The elite bonus is my personal gain as I worked towards this benefit independent from this particular client.
Congrats to the OP for winning on this one. I definitely wouldn't have accepted the bean counting policy either!
Feb 24, 2009 | 12:17 pm
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if it was just about RDM then that's a different matter and can be more easily factored into some kind of cost analysis
Your Mileage May Vary ... that's why I suggest trying to get to the bottom line. my EQM's are precious (Exec Plat obsession), my RDM's are negotiable. but that's just me.
Feb 25, 2009 | 10:52 pm
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It was the case the government employees traveling on tickets purchased by their employer could not use the miles they earned. (No way for others to use them, but that didn't matter, it was all about what was perceived to be proper and improper in government service.) That went out the window years ago, though, so government employees can earn miles/points and use them for their own personal purposes.
Through savings earned by using frequent flyer miles and economical lodgings, employees can receive payments for up to 50 percent of the travel savings they earn for their agency.
http://www.opm.gov/perform/articles/112.asp
That's an incentive to give back miles to your employer!
Feb 25, 2009 | 11:05 pm
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Dumb question, especially in light of the outcome, but do you think they were actually planning to exercise control over your miles, or do you think it was a clause in the contract just for the sake of keeping the lawyers happy?
At a previous job the employment contract said all airline miles belonged to the company. No one was ever asked for them. Ever.
At a previous job the employment contract said all airline miles belonged to the company. No one was ever asked for them. Ever.
Feb 26, 2009 | 4:32 am
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I fully understand and support the op's stand of no disclosure. i would advise that a vert of the posts of the requester would be advisable as unless someone is kind enough to release a list of which user ids are corporate reps and who aren't, there is no way of knowing where the information is going to.
Feb 26, 2009 | 6:19 am
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Feb 27, 2009 | 1:00 pm
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Canary in a coal mine, indeed. I didn't take the job. The guy who did lasted 60 days and fled, telling me later that the work culture was completely invasive, emotionalized and insane. The company collapsed.
