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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/coughE4me on 2024-07-20 01:58:26+00:00.
My company sends everyone to training every year & it’s usually for about a week. You’re put up in a nice hotel and your meals for dinner are reimbursed.
The hotel has breakfast in the morning and you have to eat there. Your lunch is covered by the training department & it’s usually a catering company.
For dinner it’s common to go out and spend a lot. I don’t know what the limit is, but some people have had an $80 dollar meal and it was covered. I’m pretty simple & a sandwich would keep me happy.
I’ve been with my company for years, but my first time there, I woke up thirsty one night and wanted some bottled water and went to the hotel lobby and bought a couple bottles of water for about 2 bucks. No big deal, it will be reimbursed or so I thought.
After I got back and turned in my receipts I got an email from some corporate lady a few days later saying that everything will be reimbursed except the bottled water.
Now maybe in the email context was lost, but I asked why the water wasn’t covered. A simple answer explaining that “only if purchased with meal” would have sufficed, but this woman said that my room should be accommodating or something like that.
I don’t remember verbatim what the response was, but I took it as snarky & it seemed if she wanted me to drink from the sink.
Now for the MP. Fast forward a year later when I went for my annual training, the first night I went out I made sure to go to a nice steak house that rhymes with malt glass. In that meal I ordered not one but 2 large glass bottles of water to take back with me to my room. These bottles were about $17 a piece, but in the end I was reimbursed because it was “purchased with my meal.”