Originally Posted by Albief15

My latest realization that we need to have things in writing? I did 5 days in a hotel on a week long pairing a few months back. I signed up for internet service and put it on company credit card. Lost a receipt for 2 days worth of internet service... Admin folks were in hub the other day helping with expense reports, and I was advised I could A) send a letter to my CP requesting approval for expense with lost receipt ($19.90) or B) eat it. Considering I had to call/pester DM enough last month about getting back on flight status, I decided just to eat this one. He might fix it with a pen stroke, but geez--do I really have to bug him (especially since he is in transition) to do all that when my calendar, my company credit card, and the other records all point to the fact I WAS in the Sheraton Waterside those days? The answer you'll get from the company is "hey--its just business" My answer on the LOA is the same--but without an malice or snide tones. When we are getting optimized, nickeled and dimed on expense reports, and fighting with CPs over "accepted fares", its kind of hard to accept that if we'll just dive on this grenade and go to these FDAs it will somehow all work out. I think there is a lot of room for clarifying a lot of these points you mentioned, as well as some other areas. If we say "please", and "NO thank you" instead of "why don't you *&^* shove this up you &^%&" I think we'll all get a lot farther along.