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Waroduce posted:I like podcasts a whole lot when I travel. I also like sports, foreign policy and am a reformed video game nerd so I listen to like Is there a built-in way to save YouTube videos to my ipad?
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If we start using concur I'm going to become a self employed contractor and just invoice them for my expenses instead.
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psydude posted:If we start using concur I'm going to become a self employed contractor and just invoice them for my expenses instead. I wish I could dump all my business expense onto my personal card. I'd make out like a bandit in free junk and even more airline miles.
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Tab8715 posted:I wish I could dump all my business expense onto my personal card. I'd make out like a bandit in free junk and even more airline miles. then you have to reconcile your expense payout, and at least at my company float expenses for about 30 days. it is good, but it's not quite a free lunch
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psydude posted:. I usually just kind of stare at the wall or continue to hopelessly attempt to sleep while listening to music. Ya I do this no matter the class. Thankfully I haven’t had to do true economy in a while. But nothing changes. It’s stupid.
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Tab8715 posted:Is there a built-in way to save YouTube videos to my ipad? If you have a web browser just google YouTube to mp3 and use a free service to download a .mp3 file
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:then you have to reconcile your expense payout, and at least at my company float expenses for about 30 days. it is good, but it's not quite a free lunch yeah i always have the lingering fear that i haven’t watched my expenses closely enough compared to my paychecks and i’m actually being ripped off for thousands of dollars but i think it’s worth it for the POINTZZZZ
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Feb 28, 2019 16:55
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The points aren't worth anything except as a reminder of all the time you've wasted traveling and will never get back. What? Bitter, me? Never.
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Find a gig that lets you have a few weeks off a year and use those points for something worthwhile. Then when you run out of those places to go the depression really levels up!!
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I think it might be a little early to start looking for a new job 
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:then you have to reconcile your expense payout, and at least at my company float expenses for about 30 days. it is good, but it's not quite a free lunch We use expensify, so I can forward most receipts to it and upload the photos of the others from my phone. Payment usually only takes about 5 business days once it's approved. The points are definitely great. I just finished booking two weeks in Japan and the travel and accomodations, including hotels, first class tickets on JAL and business class on AA for the return, cost me a little under $500 for two people (using a mix of credit card, airline, and hotel rewards). But it is daunting booking a bunch of work flights at once and having a five figure statement that I'm ultimately on the hook for.
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Feb 28, 2019 18:32
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psydude posted:If we start using concur I'm going to become a self employed contractor and just invoice them for my expenses instead. That's really customer/market dependent. I'm in a space that basically requires a lot of overhead for like accounting & poo poo. sneakyfrog posted:make friends with your approver or accounting friend Oh yeah, I was already the friendly problem child with confusing expense reports; my last two trips were a year-end clear-out of my conference allowance (went to 35c3 in Leipzig) and a two-week odyssey mixing two projects and personal stuff too.
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Feb 28, 2019 18:38
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Tab8715 posted:Is there a built-in way to save YouTube videos to my ipad? I subscribe to their premium service for no ads and it lets me save stuff to my iPad. I have like 100 videos on there now for upcoming flights.
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Which non-Apple tablet do you guys recommend? I have Google Fi so I'm just going to stick a sim card in it; carrier support isn't an issue.
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I love receiving emails and I'm truly #blessed that Concur sends so many.
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Cocoa Crispies posted:I love receiving emails and I'm truly #blessed that Concur sends so many. what’s up fellow amex traveler. love having to explicitly tell them on each booking to not swap my seat choice out with a worse one
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Is their normal travel agency any good? I have a fairly complex trip coming up and I really don't feel like spending 4 hours figuring out which flights to take and which hotels to stay in in each city and county.
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Rex-Goliath posted:what’s up fellow amex traveler. love having to explicitly tell them on each booking to not swap my seat choice out with a worse one I'm glad I didn't book last week, I guess the first set of people to use it learned that Basic Economy was enabled.
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Cocoa Crispies posted:I'm glad I didn't book last week, I guess the first set of people to use it learned that Basic Economy was enabled. ‘so we see that you selected a seat but you didn’t tell us NOT to change it so how about we book you basic economy instead? oh also the ticket is the same price. ok cool have fun’
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Rex-Goliath posted:‘so we see that you selected a seat but you didn’t tell us NOT to change it so how about we book you basic economy instead? oh also the ticket is the same price. ok cool have fun’ Nah I got upgraded to "Comfort +" for all four flights, so that's cool.
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just saying watch out for that because they will pull that bullshit on you. at the end of your booking process there's a dropdown asking what you'd like them to do with your flight reservations, ie: continue searching for better aisle, better window, etc. one of the options, which isn't default, is 'do not change any of my selections'. if you don't select it sometimes they'll just nuke your reservation to basic economy without telling you
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psydude posted:Is their normal travel agency any good? I have a fairly complex trip coming up and I really don't feel like spending 4 hours figuring out which flights to take and which hotels to stay in in each city and county. I have a guy (travel agent) I’d recommend
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I use Concur with Amex travel. They've never changed my seat once I select it. However they do send panicked emails when I get upgraded.
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My travel agent loving owns. But my movements can be complex, varied, and usually involve groups of various sizes. Goddamn I might make exec plat by April. sellouts fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Mar 2, 2019 |
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Always check your credit card statement. I found out AA overcharged me by $4.50 on a flight I recently booked. Like literally just charge me $4.50 more; no fees or anything (they would have been reflected in the receipt anyway). Was pretty painless to fix with Amex, fortunately.sellouts posted:Goddamn I might make exec plat by April. My travel isn't THAT egregious, but I'll probably hit PP around that same time as well.
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sellouts posted:My travel agent loving owns. But my movements can be complex, varied, and usually involve groups of various sizes. I have zero plans for requal this year and that is, sadly, somewhat distressing. Most of it stems from the fact that my work travel as of late has been mostly sporadic and when it does happen it's to DTW, so I'm constantly dueling between AA and DL. But at least I have lifetime plat with Marriott, right? 
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Mine has been at all 1.5-3x eqm bonus and flights of 9hr+ so it’s about as easy as it comes.
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psydude posted:If we start using concur I'm going to become a self employed contractor and just invoice them for my expenses instead. Concur is just a portal. What it allows (or doesn't allow) you to do is only as good/bad as your company's travel policy.
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I only did three trips last year and lost all my status except some stuff from hotels via credit cards or lifetime status. Tomorrow is going to be my first flight since 2009 without any status at all. Hope nothing goes wrong because Delta isn't gonna give a gently caress if I need rebooking help.
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Concur isn't that bad. It can be a bit frusterating at times, sure, but it beats a mound of paper that could get lost on your bosses desk.
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Are their magic phrases to use contacting CS (Delta) for a credit or other compensation? Flight to LHR scrubbed due to MX and their next available booking time costs me an entire day of meetings. Found a path that mitigates my damage through AMS but still out the lodging / etc. I’m only a gold tier scrub so maybe I’ll still be told to gently caress off?
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sparkmaster posted:Concur isn't that bad. It can be a bit frusterating at times, sure, but it beats a mound of paper that could get lost on your bosses desk.
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movax posted:Are their magic phrases to use contacting CS (Delta) for a credit or other compensation? Flight to LHR scrubbed due to MX and their next available booking time costs me an entire day of meetings. Found a path that mitigates my damage through AMS but still out the lodging / etc. Delta dgaf about your hotel costs but you can try lodging an EU261 claim depending on the MX reason, though if as I suspect it was  extraordinary meteorological conditions (wind at LHR) then you're more likely to score miles/credit by threatening EU261 to a new agent than actually going through the processe: no wait you're on a non-EU airline departing a non-EU airport that'll be a no-go (but you could still play irate consumer champion) Doccykins fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Mar 4, 2019 |
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American Airlines Enhances Five Star Service with Private Airport Entrance, Security Screening and Helicopter Transfersquote:Customers in the Los Angeles or the New York areas can skip the traffic and get to the airport faster with a private helicopter transfer from Blade. When traveling with Blade, customers will be picked up in the city at a destination of their choice and flown to LAX or JFK where they’ll be greeted by an American Airlines team member and escorted via Cadillac to Flagship First Check-In. i dont think concur will let me book this option
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taco show posted:American Airlines Enhances Five Star Service with Private Airport Entrance, Security Screening and Helicopter Transfers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efm8bktWrOU Courtesy of Gavin de Becker of Bezos scandal fame.
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Something Offal posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efm8bktWrOU Deciding to end this montage with a shot of a guard in body armor is 
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Doccykins posted:Delta dgaf about your hotel costs but you can try lodging an EU261 claim depending on the MX reason, though if as I suspect it was Got $200 which is better than $0 but still annoyed at ending up a day late in EU / getting a middle seat for the hop over vs a window to pass the gently caress out. Social media rep also offered $200, but decided to see if I could make a play to the phone line to get more. Unsurprisingly, it was a P&W engine that went broke dick. I believe at this point they are allowed to exist only to avoid GE having a monopoly in the aircraft engine business. (NW A332...I guess they’ll eventually all become A359s?) E: nooooooo, jokes on me, A359s are RR Trents
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The Trent XWB has been so far a lot better than the Trent 1000
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taco show posted:American Airlines Enhances Five Star Service with Private Airport Entrance, Security Screening and Helicopter Transfers Just use Private Suite at lax jeeze Oh wow it does use Private Suite. Interesting to see how that works as usually it requires a membership.
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