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Shbobdb posted:So, I am an idiot and lost my DL. I assume that am stuck with cabs for now? If you're in one of the preferred rental deals where you can jump in a car with your name already on it and drive off, you have another ID that you can fast-talk a rental company security guy at the gate with, and feel lucky with regard to getting pulled over, you can finesse it. But I wouldn't count on that. I'd use taxis, get on the internet, and see what it takes to get a new one issued. If you have to go to the DMV you're boned but if they'll mail it to your house you can do that and pick it up next time you're home or have someone get into your mail and send it to you.
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routenull0 posted:So when you hit a status mid year, you have it for the following year as right? And you just have to hit it again or more to keep it active? Generally yes, you get it for the rest of that year and the following year. The counter usually resets Jan 1 every year.
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Dec 8, 2012 19:14
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size1one posted:It's been my experience that the type of person who processes reimbursements are the least imaginative, most inflexible people I've ever met. I don't really think I can adequately describe how joyless and miserable every one of them seemed. Pray you never anger the accountants. They will not hesitate to nitpick your reimbursements. This is true, and when it starts simply wait for them to make a mistake and land on them with both feet, preferably in front of the rest of the bean counting bullpen. It shuts them up pretty well for a year and I actually made one accounting waste of air feel so bad she cited me as a reason she retired early. I have that email framed.
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Dec 11, 2012 05:30
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Lyon posted:I was annoyed because I had included the receipt and about 50% of our customer facing employees were attending so I suppose I could have been stealing $25 but come on. It's this attitude by finance that goes up my rear end sideways. People at the top are stealing hojillions of dollars and more or less getting away with it, and you want to put my nuts in a vise over a $30 parking charge? gently caress you.
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The travel gear thread has some information too: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3415334
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Dec 13, 2012 18:56
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I wouldn't waste the hundred bucks, myself. Precheck will survive right up until the first time one of the "trusted travelers" either brings on something they shouldn't or misbehaves while on board.
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Dec 14, 2012 03:36
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We have the stupidass milliwave and backscatter X-rays instead of metal detectors everywhere now.
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EDIT: nevermind, I don't want to get into how I found that out.
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Dec 14, 2012 15:54
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TouchyMcFeely posted:I don't know about other folks but I enjoy my government mandated massage and hand job before every flight. I think someone on another thread here suggested popping a Viagra half an hour before going to the airport and declining a security scan with a visible erection and a big smile.
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Dec 15, 2012 17:35
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TouchyMcFeely posted:Don't worry, it's not just commuter airports. This happens with first flight of the day pretty much everywhere. Security lines are a needless hang anyway; the airport operators know when the planes are leaving and how many people are supposed to be on each plane. They can estimate that people will be coming through security 60-120 minutes before that time. They can pass the anticipated loads to TSA, who can schedule the appropriate number of screeners to meet anticipated demand. The only time this would break would be if 100% of the screening lines were in use and they still weren't meeting demand; then it's time for more security stations and/or LET'S USE THE METAL DETECTORS! But no, let's have routine 45-minute waits at Dulles with 3/4 of the lines never in use. The whole thing is as close to a completely known problem as you're likely to find in the real world and yet they still gently caress it up. Edit for grammar. Midjack fucked around with this message at 08:37 on Dec 17, 2012 |
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EDIT: deleted, the guy below me has the right idea.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:You'd have to stay in Ontario and points east, though. Oh poo poo. USAir?
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Dec 27, 2012 23:39
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Cocoa Crispies posted:The only reason I dislike Star Alliance is their service in Miami is awful. Their terminal is depressing and I hit my head on the ceiling last time I was there, they don't have many flights, and they all seem to connect through IAH, which I don't like as much as ATL or flying direct from AA's MIA hub. United and company just can't get their poo poo together much of anywhere. Miami is terrible and Dulles is loving inexcusable given how much traffic it sees (the contrast between the C/D concourses that belong to United and the A/B concourses that everyone else uses is comparable to Miami). PT6A posted:Also: why don't American airports have proper in-transit areas so I don't have to worry about US customs and the various things which they don't allow into the country? They take the legal stance that if you're in the airport you're in the country.
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Dec 28, 2012 18:50
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Lyon posted:I got my first official assignment of the new year that will require a flight which will be Milan, Italy sometime in February. I need to get the dates worked out but hopefully the first of many. All of January is virtual training and then a week long trip to New Jersey, which is local for me, so February is the start for me I suppose. Last year winter was really busy but this year we seem to have more virtual trainings than on-site ones so far, hopefully that changes. My planning horizon only goes like 2 weeks but I'm already loaded up for a couple of weeks in late January/early February.
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Jan 8, 2013 05:23
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TouchyMcFeely posted:Getting geared up for a trip to London. Been a few years since I've been out that way. Anything I should know about getting through UK airport security with just a carry on? No worse than usa domestic travel these days.
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Just got 25K on Star Alliance on a month-long trip, only thing I've done so far this year.
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Mar 1, 2013 07:29
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You might check with Staff A for guidance; even if the customer decides end the contract there is probably still some time before the end of the period of performance. At the very least Staff A should have had a provision that ensured any of their employees who were traveling would be covered by the Corp/Staff A contract until the end of their travel. Though that doesn't preclude Corp or Staff A calling you home early and ending it that way.
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Mar 15, 2013 03:11
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Meta Ridley posted:I am definitely a special case right now (this is first time they've done a trip like this. Honestly you'd think they would just hire me on at this point but the way this Corporation works that is not a possibility, positions are opened independently by some other higher-up). Better that than stay for the duration of the trip, stop being paid your salary by Staff A halfway through, then come back to find that Corp won't reimburse you for the travel expenses or pay you for the time you spent working for them, which is a very real outcome if you don't find out what the deal is here. You really need to be making a bunch of phone calls and get something sent to you in writing via FedEx or certified mail or something once a decision maker at one of the two companies decides how to handle it. Depending on the exact wording of the contract between Staff A and Corp you are potentially in a very vulnerable position here.
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See what your company's regs are; it's probably written down somewhere. My employer doesn't pay for POV costs less than or equal to your normal daily commute if you go somewhere else, but anything over that you get paid for. If your office is one of those "well you can but GOOD EMPLOYEES DON'T AND YOU WANT TO BE GOOD DON'T YOU  " places then I don't know, don't ask for it unless you drive a monster truck or something.
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Mar 22, 2013 12:30
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Ask for it, if they fire you over that it's a lovely place anyway and you would have gotten canned for running up the water bill by using the bathroom too many times or something.
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Mar 22, 2013 18:44
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salted hash browns posted:Sup fellow travelers. United/SPG guy here. If you're a video game guy a PSP, DS, Vita, or other handheld system can eat a lot of time. Books are still my favorite. On some long trips I've bought a plastic model and put it together in my down time at night, though I don't paint the ones I build like this.
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Lyon posted:I'm just going to come in here and be excited/brag a little because I'm sure my friends are sick of it and you guys can deflate my head with your awesome trips. I landed in Philly today after a trip out to Portland, OR and when I turned on my phone I found out my trip to Germany got extended and San Diego is now confirmed. So in a week I'll be flying to Munich to work there for a week, then taking the train to Frankfurt and working there for a week, then flying home out of Frankfurt. Pretty excited, Germany is probably the last of the major Western European countries I haven't been to. Sorry to confound your expectations but that'll be a good trip!
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Hoo boy, got platinum on United today.
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CaptainPsyko posted:Is there such a thing as a checkpoint friendly bag that can carry two laptops? That's me too, my record is 5 bins. Just do it and don't give a gently caress; I find I'm often much faster unloading into my 5 bins than most people are into their 1 or 2. It helps if you stack the bins on top of each other once they're loaded so you're not hogging table space and then unstack them to feed into the X-ray.
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Thoguh posted:I didn't realize Global Entry was linked to PreCheck. I very rarely travel internationally but if I fall off of being elite on Delta that might be worth it. Pretty sure people with clearances are just as happy not to share that fact with airlines.
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Small White Dragon posted:FWIW, the DoJ filing has some interesting emails from US leadership. This should not surprise anybody, but they are planning to reduce service (quality AND quantity), and raise both prices and fees. IMAGINE MY SURPRISE
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Xandu posted:The cheapest flights I could find (we have to use the company's travel service) is like 6000, plus 10 days or so of hotels, so it'd be a fairly large limit increase. Your employer will take as much of an interest free loan as you are willing to give them. Ask for them to charge the transport to their account or give you an advance for the transport and hotel (if they do that anymore).
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Thoguh posted:I doubt it. CAC cards don't unless you are uniformed military and from a quick google of TWIC it seems like to be pretty similar to a CAC. Depends on who you know. I've seen it get holders nothing. I've also seen TSA clowns let TWIC holders take the magnetometer instead of the milliwave. Once I saw the airport oinkers let a TWIC and his family through with no screening since they were all airport bros.
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I'm United plat and on course to get 1K this year. Hotel stays are hopelessly fragmented, unfortunately.
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Morby posted:So, in light of that, what do you guys do for gaming on the road? 3DS/Vita? Gaming laptop? Bring the console with you? I'd been using a PSP with custom firmware that I ripped my UMDs onto and had some emulators and movies too. I recently switched to a Vita; no emulators but games are available as downloads and movies look great on the screen. I wouldn't take a console because it's big and I don't want to risk damage plus you can't play it on the airplane. Gaming laptop is another computer I'm dragging around in addition to the work computer.
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Sep 7, 2013 03:57
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If you get a power strip or other multi outlet solution make sure it will handle 220v. It will say on the box or on the device itself.
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Was going to make United 1K this year but the trip I needed got cancelled. Would have been 500 miles under what I needed if it had gone and I would have either bought that or done a one-day run to make it. 
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Belldandy posted:You guys are crazy to not do a Mileage run, especially for 1K status. Find the cheapest long haul and go for it. 15,000 is a lot of miles. That would have been a good trip.
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nikosoft posted:And I hear they have this magical thing called First Class?? Literally never worth the additional premium over business.
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Thoguh posted:Pretty sure he meant domestic first class. Which is a big step up from domestic coach but isn't even comparable to international business class. Domestic first is a hilarious waste of money, but international has never been worth it either in my experience. I have not had the opportunity to take first class on one of the carriers that inspires cultlike devotion, but I have been in coach and business on some of them and you're still on the same lovely airplane with rude cabin staff, crappy food, and scumbag fellow passengers so being in the front of the plane is no better than the back. If you're charging it to the customer's contract knock yourself out I guess; I won't refuse a no cost upgrade but I will never expend a resource (money, miles, regional upgrade) on a first class seat when I can use that resource for literally anything else.
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mr_cardholder posted:Man, I hate all you platinum, gold, diamond whatever. I end up with that problem to a lesser degree; if I could choose to keep it on one airline I'd be top level and then some. As it is I'm stuck spreading it out across United and American with the occasional Delta or Jetblue thrown in for laughs. I have over a million miles total, though it's so hopelessly fragmented that my highest concentration is 530K rear end-in-seat miles on United.
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CaptainPsyko posted:But the point is it's not a way to get around the fee. Any situation in which you can gate check a bag is a situation in which you don't need to check a bag in the first place. It's no trick at all to bring more stuff through the TSA horseshit than the gate will let you actually carry onto the airplane, though the gate staff will sometimes try to charge you for the checked bag at that point. Depending on your feelings toward haggling you can get that fee waived. It's worth the twentyfivebux to me not to do that but the option is there if you want that real cheapskate thrill.
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FrozenVent posted:But hey, $25 bucks. Just carry on.
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GregNorc posted:So I just booked a 23 day mega-vacation this. Partly paid for by conference travel (which covers travel to Toronto and 5 days hotel/meals), the rest w/ points. The easy answer is "beg ride from friend" but if that's not available, in order I'd explore: - dump your car somewhere near airport with free or cheap parking, taxi to retrieve it when you return - check all the car rental places that have offices in Bloomington for one-way rates - cheap hotel followed by cheap shuttle the next day - taxi is distant last because you'll get hit hard for a 50-mile ride if the cab will even go that far
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Most freaky flyer programs will give you freebie upgrades to their greater legroom econ seats as soon as you get status so you won't have to suffer long. I find it's worth going out of pocket if I have to.
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