Shared Hotel Rooms for Work
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Agreed, If you among friends in college, I see no problem with it so long everyone knows before hand. When ISU played at Arrowhead against KSU, a couple friends and I got a hotel room right by the stadium (the one that's adjacent to the stadium). I think there were 5 of us and we all shared a room, there were two beds with two people per bed. But that was understood going in, and we were all friends.
My apologies.
I also just realized that this is post #247 on a thread about dudes being forced to sleep with other dudes.
No reason to apologize, just giving some context to those who might not get the reference as you suggested.
I was thinking about this whole subject again today and to me if a person is forced to share a room with someone they'd never be with outside of work, they should be paid around the clock.
Good luck with all this. Glad you're not caving. No need to. Companies need good workers and crap like this is going to keep the best away eventually.
"So you think you should get paid around the clock if you have to buddy up on rooms? Okay, you win.
Oh, yeah, you are on salary, aren't you..."
The simplest solution, if they want to cut hotel costs is per diem. Give us all up to $X a night for hotel. You want to sleep in your truck snd pocket the cash? Go ahead. You want to stay at the Ritz and spend some of your own money? Go for it.
This crap just makes me angry because is disingenuous. If you want to save money, there are better ways than this.
I don't work in construction like you do, but isn't per diem chargeable to the customer? Is there a reason why you company won't do that?
It can be frustrating for sure, especially when you see what other people will expense on some business trips. Some people expense steaks and 2 beers every night for 3-4 days but if I want to expense a $30 upgrade for economy plus it gets shot down.
I'd be all for per diem, but even that gets tricky depending on where you are going.
I think he's in BD (business development) so it's basically an overhead cost.
If you charge a per diem to the customer and then are able to spend less on the actual rooms and meals you can end up pocketing some money you would be paying your employees.
The feds have a scale published that adjusts per diem based on where you are traveling so it does a fairly good job of accounting for the cost of living of a city or area.
Per diem rates
GSA establishes the maximum CONUS (Continental United States) Per Diem rates for federal travel customers.
www.gsa.gov
I agree. I have traveled for both the government and for a huge company and they both had rules about what could be expensed and what couldn't. For meals, both had a dollar amount (either by the meal or by the day) that could not be exceeded, and the government would not reimburse any alcohol. I often wished that I could take some leftover food money and apply it to a seat upgrade on a plane or something similar like you said.
For the private employer, we could upgrade to business class on international flights or redeyes over X hours (basically transcon). There was some quirk that people quickly learned on a common route - the equivalent of LAX-EWR being just barely too short, but LAX-JFK getting over the threshold. The common sense thing to do would be to allow the upgrades on the EWR route, but no, common sense went out the window.
Lol. no. But that two pairs of dudes would be sleeping in the same bed. I got the floor.
