Flight madness
I was once flown to Chicago from here (UK), then from there to St. Louis, put up in a hotel for nine days (as I couldn't get a flight back the same day for some bureaucratic reason to do with someone flying a couple of planes into some buildings or something), fed and watered, plus incidental expenses that came to about 400 dollars, flown back to Chicago then to Philadelphia to be told that I had to go to Charlotte NC due to an admin cock-up with the flights, then back to Heathrow, picked up by a driver and taken home, just so I could rebuild some indexes on a few database tables when in St. Louis, that I could easily have done remotely from here. Apparently, it was best if I go there in person.
Surely it would have been cheaper to go to a local IT guy and pay him for the day?
(dchurch bah, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 7:50, 2 replies)

I flew to America for a night
Wed morning: Heathrow to Boston
Thur morning: In office for appraisal. Everything is good with me, but I have to endure a sob story as to why they can't pay me more money.
Thur evening: Fly home

Flights: £980
Hotel: £160
Car hire: £130
Bar bills: £160
Taxi: £15
( Piper Alpha is being a grumpy northerm bastard on:, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 10:44, closed)

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You should have mentioned that next time you would rather just have the money that was spent on the flight.
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 11:46, closed)