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From: Lisa Cubbon on 13 Aug 2010 19:17
On 8/13/2010 4:09 PM, Rudeney wrote:
> On 8/12/2010 1:30 PM, Keane wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:11:56 -0400, Lisa Cubbon<cubbon(a)bellsouth.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> It is, Michelle! And they pay for the drive down and back.
>>>
>>> Lisa
>>
>> When I traveled a lot on business, I made quite a bit of
>> money on mileage. Yeah, the car got a lot of miles on it,
>> but I drive a car until it becomes a money pit anyway,
>> and the money from the mileage more than paid for any
>> maintenance repairs.
>>
>> So I always got to take vacations around my business
>> trips since I always had a car, and the company always
>> paid my way. Not only that, but if I was at a customer
>> site for more than a week, they paid for hotel and a
>> per diem over the weekend. They didn't care where I
>> went.
>>
>> But then the guys who ran our group in the company
>> retired, and management who didn't have a clue of
>> what we did moved in, and I think everyone knows
>> what happens then....
>
> I once worked for a company that paid us an extra hourly rate while out
> of town. On top of that, they actually let us fly first class.
> Everything was billed to the customer, at 125% of actual cost, so they
> didn't care. That's where I racked up my million miles on Delta. Back
> then, each flight segment was worth 1,000 miles. Every trip out of BHM
> was a connection, so that was 4 segments per trip, then double mileage
> for first class, getting 8,000 miles per trip plus another 1,000 for the
> car rental and 1,000 for the hotel, and traveling 2 to 3 weeks a month.
> Ah, those were the days! :-)
>
Andy worked for IBM and that's the way it worked there too. He was not a
frequent traveler and we live where everyone transfered so we didn't get
the double bumps.

Lisa
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