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When Concur is looking attractive I wonder what abuse you’ve been subjected to at previous jobs
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luminalflux posted:When Concur is looking attractive I wonder what abuse you’ve been subjected to at previous jobs we had a time and expense reporting system built off of excel macros that had to be run in compatibility mode and did not allow for more than 20 expense lines to be submitted in any given week. also for a very long time we had to mail in or turn in all our physical receipts. i think we were allowed to email receipts in about 2017 or so but that was through email to our accounting admin. note that we are only using it for expense reporting, i don't have to touch its known hideous travel booking poo poo
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Jan 6, 2023 01:17
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If you have status you can also play with timings for return journeys, and just do free SDCs with the airline once ticketed, though this will screw with any upgrades. A bit more sketch with meetings for outbound journeys.
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Jan 6, 2023 01:49
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:we had a time and expense reporting system built off of excel macros that had to be run in compatibility mode and did not allow for more than 20 expense lines to be submitted in any given week. also for a very long time we had to mail in or turn in all our physical receipts. i think we were allowed to email receipts in about 2017 or so but that was through email to our accounting admin. mein gott I'm so sorry. We're on Tripactions, and everything must be booked via Tripactions, as well as paid via the TA card. So no credit card points, just the airline FF miles.
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Jan 6, 2023 02:29
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We were a little consulting firm so big infrastructure was too expensive. It's the best of all worlds right now as far as I can tell because I can book whatever the gently caress I want using my own personal credit cards, same as before, and then I report it all in a much better system.
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Jan 6, 2023 03:06
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Any suggested places to eat near Dulles? Not flying, so not in the airport. Just visiting an office near there for a couple days. I have a couple favorites in DC, but that would be a bit far after work.
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Jan 10, 2023 21:02
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Business Travel update: I have a godawful ear infection.
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Jan 10, 2023 22:36
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There's a Peruvian chicken place around there that's awesome, it's been a while since I've been in the area though. The food gets better the closer you get to DC in my experience. Edit: I gave myself a sinus infection and thought my head was going to explode twice yesterday, guess I get to look like a tweaker when I go to ask for the good decongestant before flying home. SpeedFreek fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Jan 11, 2023 |
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Jan 11, 2023 01:22
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Funny you mention it, I have one day of drops left on this simultaneous ear and eye infection. I think I saw some Peruvian place on Google maps, I'll have to check it out.
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Jan 11, 2023 02:16
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Guy Axlerod posted:Any suggested places to eat near Dulles? Not flying, so not in the airport. Just visiting an office near there for a couple days. I have a couple favorites in DC, but that would be a bit far after work. Ciao Osteria is good Italian in Centreville. Pho 102 near the Lotte in Chantilly is good pho. Taste of Hong Kong in a different part of that shopping center is good Chinese. Piero's Corner Restaurant in Franklin Farm is another good Italian place.
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I’m baaaaaaack Two years of working a normal job and I started to get the itch to get back into a customer-facing role. I’m now on week two of a new gig and am flying out to Portugal at the end of the month. My travel shouldn’t be as brutal as it was in my last job, maybe only flying somewhere once a month or every other month. I think at that kind of cadence it’ll be enough that it stays kind of fresh and doesn’t leave me wondering what the gently caress I’m doing with my life e: PIZZA.BAT posted:Well it was fun while it lasted, thread, but starting next year I'm going back to a regular 'ol office job so my life on the road is over for now. Right now I'm trying to decide on what to do with my Chase points. I currently have about $1.5k worth, so the redemption on travel is worth about $750 alone. The problem is hitting the $300 travel reimbursement is gonna be kind of tough with the whole global pandemic thing going on, but even if I don't use it I still come out ahead on the points redemption. Any ideas? I cancelled the CSR after blowing all the remaining points. Im probably gonna be in the market for a new travel card pretty soon. What’s the current hotness? Still CSR? PIZZA.BAT fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Jan 11, 2023 |
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Jan 11, 2023 04:49
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PIZZA.BAT posted:Still CSR? Or Amex Plat depending on where you're focusing loyalty. I have referrals with bonus points if you need.
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PIZZA.BAT posted:I’m baaaaaaack If you're Delta, Amex of some type -- I gave them $40K last year + am Diamond but that doesn't mean poo poo for SkyClub access compared to anyone who pays Amex for the appropriate card.
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Jan 11, 2023 05:10
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PIZZA.BAT posted:I’m baaaaaaack CSR still allows statement credit redemptions with the 50% bonus that used to be restricted to travel and other stuff. I would have cancelled it long ago if not for that. I don’t travel for work right now so with all the benefits , minus the annual fee gets me right around the value I would probably get from the free BofA straight 1% card or whatever. Maybe a little more. It’s my daily driver and only regularly used CC, has been for several years.
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glad I took the last flight out of SFO last night. apparently the Notam system took a poo poo and now UA has a company-wide ground stop? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-11/us-flights-disrupted-after-outage-of-faa-pilot-advisory-system?srnd=premium&sref=FwBADu0L
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Jan 11, 2023 13:10
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Inner Light posted:CSR still allows statement credit redemptions with the 50% bonus that used to be restricted to travel and other stuff. Check your card, CSR reduced the benefit for 2023. Now it’s a 25% bonus on different categories (groceries and gas.) And CSP it is completely worthless now.
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Jan 11, 2023 13:31
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Mandalay posted:glad I took the last flight out of SFO last night. Oof, you got lucky! Maybe go buy a lottery ticket or something. We’ll see if that affects my flights tomorrow.
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Jan 11, 2023 13:37
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My incredibly clever plan to have meetings until noon PST and fly back to the east coast from the west coast on the last afternoon flight to avoid the redeye has obviously been thoroughly hosed up by this.
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Jan 11, 2023 15:45
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smackfu posted:Check your card, CSR reduced the benefit for 2023. Now it’s a 25% bonus on different categories (groceries and gas.) And CSP it is completely worthless now. Nooooooooo I knew this wouldn’t last too long post covid disruptions, it really increased the value of the card. Since it turned it into a straight cash back card instead of travel portal BS for full rewards. Bastards. Thanks for the heads up. CSR doesn’t have a lot of competition except amex and I’m not gonna pay that fee.
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Jan 11, 2023 15:51
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:My incredibly clever plan to have meetings until noon PST and fly back to the east coast from the west coast on the last afternoon flight to avoid the redeye has obviously been thoroughly hosed up by this. Ouch, that sucks. Hope you can make it home without too much bullshit. But I'd take a 6AM flight tomorrow over a redeye tonight (or ever).
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Jan 11, 2023 17:41
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tiny crjs suck and i hate them 
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TehRedWheelbarrow posted:tiny crjs suck and i hate them Hope you don't fly AA.
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Beef Of Ages posted:Hope you don't fly AA. delta. but the closest airport is basically just CRJs to the hub, and when you have a stupid set of flights with a 22 minute layover cant even risk gate checking a normal carryon and its dumb.
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TehRedWheelbarrow posted:delta. but the closest airport is basically just CRJs to the hub, and when you have a stupid set of flights with a 22 minute layover cant even risk gate checking a normal carryon and its dumb. Upside is you'll be upgraded to larger CRJs in the spring. 
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Beef Of Ages posted:Upside is you'll be upgraded to larger CRJs in the spring. hey if i can fit my travelpro carryon in the overheads and not have to gate check it everydamn time on my usual 5am to detroit that would be nice.
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Beef Of Ages posted:Ouch, that sucks. Hope you can make it home without too much bullshit. got poo poo to do tomorrow
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Spoke to the bartender at the CLT centurion lounge. He said they go through 40 bottles of Cabernet per day, 100 bottles of Prosecco on a 7-1pm shift and 175 bottles of Tito’s (the liquor they provide the most of) per week. He said in all his experience as a bartender on cruises and other high throughput locations, he’s never seen a place go through so much alcohol so quickly
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Cacafuego posted:Spoke to the bartender at the CLT centurion lounge. He said they go through 40 bottles of Cabernet per day, 100 bottles of Prosecco on a 7-1pm shift and 175 bottles of Tito’s (the liquor they provide the most of) per week. He said in all his experience as a bartender on cruises and other high throughput locations, he’s never seen a place go through so much alcohol so quickly I believe it. Every time I've been in there they are constantly slangin dranks. They make a really good rye manhattan, too.
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Cacafuego posted:Spoke to the bartender at the CLT centurion lounge. He said they go through 40 bottles of Cabernet per day, 100 bottles of Prosecco on a 7-1pm shift and 175 bottles of Tito’s (the liquor they provide the most of) per week. He said in all his experience as a bartender on cruises and other high throughput locations, he’s never seen a place go through so much alcohol so quickly In contrast to cruises and all inclusive resorts where it's the same people who get poo poo faced the first few nights and then stop, airports are literally a revolving door of customers so it's a poor comparison. Also that the only free beer in Admiral Clubs is Bud Light is kinda.. not good
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I mean it’s usually free bc work is paying for it and if I’m in a centurion lounge or in CLT something has gone wrong so you bet your rear end I’m drinking
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taco show posted:if I’m in a centurion lounge or in CLT something has gone wrong so you bet your rear end I’m drinking I feel seen
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I've cut way, way back on my lounge and plane drinking and I'm gonna be honest: my life is a lot better for it.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:I've cut way, way back on my lounge and plane drinking and I'm gonna be honest: my life is a lot better for it. Same but sometimes I want to be able to sleep on the plane. I finally got Avis to drop the charges for refusing to drive on tires with cords showing. I'll have to be pretty desperate before renting from them again.
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I sleep better on the plane if I don't drink, which I will admit is both rare and fortunate.
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It's rare I get drunk in lounges/on planes but I'll grab a glass of wine or two sometimes. I do really like having the option though. Has anyone ever asked AA, and had success, to start counting trips/mileage to next year's status window? Essentially asking for rollover similar to what Delta offers (offered?). I have a last minute trip to Poland coming up and there's almost zero chance I'll hit exec plat by the end of February.
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Lyon posted:It's rare I get drunk in lounges/on planes but I'll grab a glass of wine or two sometimes. I do really like having the option though. I have 193k mqms already with Delta, I'm pretty sure they're still doing rollover. It's rare for me to drink on planes now but after a bad week all bets are off. I still can't figure out how to sleep on a plane without help, or in general for that matter. I will totally have a beer with dinner if I'm at Stone Arch in MSP though.
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According to everything I've seen, and asked in here, AA isn't planning on doing rollovers. Which is stupid because I have no incentive to drive spend to their linked card now that I'm over the threshold.
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rollover is still a thing. i was like 10 miles short for platinum status this year mainly because i was tired of dealing with covid and sick people and all the miles rolled over jan 1
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TehRedWheelbarrow posted:rollover is still a thing. i was like 10 miles short for platinum status this year mainly because i was tired of dealing with covid and sick people and all the miles rolled over jan 1 AA year is Feb tho
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Y'all need weed mints. Pop them an hr before the flight. Zonk out on the plane.
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