Originally Posted by
bedrock
Imagine your boss send you of town on a business trip. You get to your destination and there is no hotel booked for you. Your company will not answer calls. You have no corporate credit card. You have to book a hotel at last minute for yourself and your colleagues...and pay for the cab. Very early in the morning, you pay for another cab and go to your meeting to find out it's been moved to 4 hours later. You have to sit around at the local McD's until meeting time. The meeting is delayed.
You are only on salary, so you get paid nothing extra for this wasted time. Then you have to send multiple emails, just to get paid correctly and get your earnings and refund.
This is a business day at XJT.
I'm not trying to defend what XJT did today (I heard a rumor), but at many companies, you have to spend a significant amount of time organizing your own hotel rooms, transportation, etc. Sometimes you aren't given a company credit card, have to pay out of pocket and are reimbursed accordingly. Sometimes you end up paying out of pocket if you accidentally go over budget for the trip and sometimes the meetings are cancelled without your prior knowledge. Even worse, if you're a salesmen, you could have wasted 2 days of your life on a customer that wasn't even interested in the first place.
Imagine spending time at home on your days off answering emails and organizing travel. You have to scour the internet for flights that maximize your time while meeting the budget. Even worse, sometimes you start your day traveling at 4am and when you get back to your city, you have to come into the office because you're salary and have things to attend to.