Before the merger we had 2 Canadair Challengers and 2 Sikorskis at Midway. Ya know, can't have the boss take commercial just because one is in maintenance. They musta sold the old air force.
I visited to work in the hangar. I did tell the Chief pilot I was taking flying lessons. In my way, "I'm learning to do your job. Can you learn mine?"
And when they had a "no travel on private aircraft" policy, I wanted them to tell the CEO.
And my boss complains about the $20,000 to $22,000 I go through each year. You make me look cheap.
At least our reporting system is on-line. Wait until all the charges on the Amex card are posted on the system, click, click, click, fill in a few blanks and presto - it's ready to submit. Click a button and it's sent to the boss for his blessing. Print a copy for me and one for the bean counters, attach the required receipts (very few these days) and send that in interoffice mail to an obscure place in Utah. Reimbursement shows up in my checking account in a few weeks. Really simple.
And my boss complains about the $20,000 to $22,000 I go through each year. You make me look cheap.
At least our reporting system is on-line. Wait until all the charges on the Amex card are posted on the system, click, click, click, fill in a few blanks and presto - it's ready to submit. Click a button and it's sent to the boss for his blessing. Print a copy for me and one for the bean counters, attach the required receipts (very few these days) and send that in interoffice mail to an obscure place in Utah. Reimbursement shows up in my checking account in a few weeks. Really simple.
They reduced our recently from $25 to $10. Conservation of stupidity I guess.
Y'all need to work for a small firm with admins that can do that stuff for you....
I worked for a small company once and the admins were even more useless than the few we have in a bog company. They felt they were the ones running the place. One tried to have all the engineers do time cards. That lasted two months when we all decided that we were able to work less for more pay that way. Instead of 10 hour days and 8 hours of wages we worked 7.5 hour days for 8 hours of wages. Gotta love the DoL work standards! They helped keep stupid rules out of the work place.
Hmmm... I've never had a problem with admins at large or small companies. When I worked at the Borg, I'd drop a pile of reciepts from 2 weeks of international travel on my admin and she'd get to do the conversions and put the paperwork together.
As for the small firm, you just have to hire good folks....