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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Nstraclassic on 2025-05-20 19:26:26+00:00.
At my last job i lived 5 minutes from a customer i had standing appointments with first thing in the morning, twice per week. The office was about 30 minutes away. I had another customer that was about 45 minutes from me that was over an hour from our office that i was at once per week. Management started refusing to reimburse my mileage because it was the "first stop of the day" and said use a company car if it's an issue. We had 2 cars for like 8 techs and one was permenantly assigned to someone.
Can probably tell where this is going lol. I told them my work day starts at 8 and I'll be at the office to pick up the car at 8. They fought that at first but there wasn't anything they could do because the employee handbook clearly stated working hours.
Unsurpisingly the car was never available so they had to reimburse me for way more mileage since i was taking my own car anyway and even when it was available i was extemely late to every appointment that we were contractually bound to. I might have let what I was doing slip to a couple other techs and within a week they removed the handbook from our shared drive and rewrote the policy for the next year to reimburse partial mileage for first-stop appointments but I quit well before it got rolled out.