expenses
I used to work for a rather large IT company. And they had me travelling around the country visiting various sites to check their new IT kit was working OK, Answer customer complaints and fix stuff. What they failed to realise is, at the time i didnt drive. So had to take the train, bus, tube, ferry, plane, taxi, everywhere.
Now boarding long distance trains without prebooking a ticket costs a fortune. I was sticking on 100s of pounds a day on my company AMEX card in rail fares. And that was just standard class.

After a few weeks of this I was noticing that my expenses were pretty much going unchecked. So i started going first class. Upgrading myself to better hotels. Feasting out in the buffet carts. Basically as long as I got a receipt, it was fine.

When I actually arrived at the sites, which would sometimes take up to 8 hours of travelling from early hours in the morning. There wasnt usually much to do. So a few pints in the pub (got a receipt) and i was on the trains to go back again.

My working hours were 9 till 5, but some days id be on 5am trains and getting in at 9pm. So of course time and a half overtime was getting put in. This was despite the fact that I didnt actually work every day.

They were good days, sat on trains chilling out listening to the radio, scrumming msyelf silly in the buffet cart. getting pissed, bringing girls back to the hotel room and claiming silly amounts of overtime. All on the company credit card. (the girls were free! i didnt pay for them! though i could have done LOL)
(Miggyman, Fri 9 Nov 2007, 17:03, Reply)