Leave 9-5 job for a job with 80% travel?

Gone West

I own an applewatch wrote: »

So basically you've just thrown my advice down the sh1tter.

Trust me, this is the last time I ever supply you with any quality guidance.

Enjoy being a working stiff for the next 40 years!

Either trolling or you have some serious control issues there, friend.

I own an applewatch

Fuzzy wrote: »

Either trolling or you have some serious control issues there, friend.

I was merely voicing my disappointment that the' one-week-in-Benidorm-sun-holiday-with stupid-kids-and-frumpy-wife' brigade won out over my sage advice.

Hey ho...

I own an applewatch

I was merely voicing my disappointment that the' one-week-in-Benidorm-sun-holiday-with stupid-kids-and-frumpy-wife' brigade won out over my sage advice.

Hey ho...

jive

Fuzzy wrote: »

Grab a taxi in Dublin... "oh no receipts, sorry" (aka taxi driver doesn't like to pay tax).
Grab a light rail in the USA... might not have a price printed on ticket.
Grab a late night meal somewhere... no till, no receipts
Tipping in the USA 15%-20% on nearly everything. Usually not reimbursable. (Does your maid leave you a receipt? And yes, you're supposed to tip em!).
How many bottles of $6.50 hotel-water are too many on your expenses?
And simply losing or forgetting receipts.

Believe me, the €8k raise would be lost in no time to receipt attrition with 80% travel.
It's actually a MASSIVE insult to just offer €8k per year as a raise considering that amount of business travel to the USA. What would an equivalent employee cost in the states?

Edit: My position for clarity:
Location independent remote worker, but with 8-10 business trips to the USA/Asia/EUR per year.

You're doing it wrong. Learn to travel better and expense properly. You should never end up in the red when travelling for business purposes, you are working unsociable hours for no extra pay on behalf of your company; I've never heard of anyone get called up on claiming tips. Tips are reimbursable in every travel policy for every company I've ever worked in.

Travel policies are essentially rule out a few things (entertainment, classes of travel, etc.) while stating everything else is reimbursable, within reason.

hardCopy

jive wrote: »

You're doing it wrong. Learn to travel better and expense properly. You should never end up in the red when travelling for business purposes, you are working unsociable hours for no extra pay on behalf of your company; I've never heard of anyone get called up on claiming tips. Tips are reimbursable in every travel policy for every company I've ever worked in.

Travel policies are essentially rule out a few things (entertainment, classes of travel, etc.) while stating everything else is reimbursable, within reason.

The place I worked had a self-certifiable expense form. In recognition that some receipts inevitably get lost. If you lost a high value receipt it had to be countersigned by a manager, really big ones needed a senior executive and a good explanation but you were never expected to take the hit.

Any taxi driver I ever met who issued hand written receipts would usually throw you a block of ten receipts and ask you to fill them in yourself. I kept the spares for the odd time I lost one.

Printed receipts usually have a box to fill in a tip amount which I never had difficulty claiming.

I also got a €60 unvouched per diem for every night I spent away which more than covered the cost of meals and incidentals.

Gone West

hardCopy wrote: »

The place I worked had a self-certifiable expense form. In recognition that some receipts inevitably get lost. If you lost a high value receipt it had to be countersigned by a manager, really big ones needed a senior executive and a good explanation but you were never expected to take the hit.

Any taxi driver I ever met who issued hand written receipts would usually throw you a block of ten receipts and ask you to fill them in yourself. I kept the spares for the odd time I lost one.

Printed receipts usually have a box to fill in a tip amount which I never had difficulty claiming.

I also got a €60 unvouched per diem for every night I spent away which more than covered the cost of meals and incidentals.

I wasn't talking about my individual situation, just giving examples of how just an €8k raise could be swallowed up considering 292 days travel per year. The extremely small raise also shows that the company is probably also very tight on expenses.
I get 20/35/65 un-vouched for 3 meals daily which easily covers the incidentals, so I don't lose out personally.

BTW, work for Germans and try to claim un-receipted tips (my example was money left for the maids) or taxi receipts in your own handwriting and see how far you get.

Borzoi

Fuzzy wrote: »

BTW, work for Germans and try to claim un-receipted tips (my example was money left for the maids) or taxi receipts in your own handwriting and see how far you get.

Former colleague of mine got the bullet for expenses issues. EAT agreed with the company. Hand written receipts are not worth your job.

Other company had the PACE system - Pished Away, Can't Explain

jimmycrackcorm

Fuzzy wrote:

Tipping in the USA 15%-20% on nearly everything. Usually not reimbursable. (Does your maid leave you a receipt? And yes, you're supposed to tip em!). How many bottles of $6.50 hotel-water are too many on your expenses? .

You seem to be obsessed with maids :-) but I had an extended stay on a trip in the US and I asked the hotel to write out a receipt specifically for me to detail tips. It was accepted by my employer because it cannot really be argued that you can stay over there and not tip.

If I had tried to make a claim for $6.50 water my manager would have asked why the hotel room didn't have a sink...