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FrozenVent posted:My Nexus interview took up like half an hour, mostly because I spent twenty-five minutes shooting the poo poo with the CBP agent about custom clearance procedure for cruise ships and fishing boats, and the comparative experiences of getting searched by German, American, Russian and Canadian customs. It was a slow day. There is a tiny dock where a ferry docks after coming across Lake St. Clair from Canada, and there is a solitary customs official who sits in this shack waiting for it to arrive. Its funny to drive by it cause you can't look at it without comparing it to the airport holding areas.
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Ynglaur posted:Sign up for every single points program their is, for every single airline, hotel, rental car agency, and train. If you make a career of Check with your company after you sign up, some places provide you with insta-status and you don't have to scrub-life the first however many months.
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FrozenVent posted:I'm especially annoyed by hotels that charge for the internet, it just seems petty. "That'll be $250 for the room, and uh... If you want the internet, it's going to be $8." Just all the taxes and fees are getting nuts, I wish they'd just build it into the price. Like 50% of the cost of my rentals are fees, and hotels can be pretty bad sometimes too.
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May 15, 2014 02:26
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Yeah $8 for a skunk rear end Sam Adams is a worse value than $20 for internet, you're just preying on holiday travelers phobias at that point.
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Man National Emerald Exec is so much better than Hertz its ridiculous. The amount of nice cars in the bigger cities is really great.caberham posted:Well, booze is already an amazing money maker. It's mostly water anyways. Some places just wearing a nice suit makes you a prostitute magnet. Thanks for treating your business trip as a fuckcation and setting the standard, grody dudes. 
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May 18, 2014 19:11
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Pvt Dancer posted:I don't think I've ever seen one in Europe, but maybe I'm just terribly naive and/or stay in the wrong (right?) hotels. Yeah its pretty city specific, but its kind of funny to change into my grunge clothes and never getting bothered after that. Its worse in Asia. My experience in Europe is that in most places there is a single street/block set up for all of that and outside of that there isn't really anything going on.
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May 18, 2014 20:42
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FrozenVent posted:The first-worldest of first world problems. Whenever I get an Impala they always seem to be the most beaten down too.
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May 19, 2014 00:14
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The worst rental I've ever gotten was a Kia Soul. Just because the seats are somehow asymmetrical and very uncomfortable. I ended up doing 300 miles on the road that trip D:kansas posted:I'd argue the thread on FT where people were complaining about how many portions of caviar they were able to get while flying CX in F was a more first-worldest of problems... Man they sure do get amped about getting an extra wholesale farmed caviar tins which are probably like $20 each. Looking at the Cathay F food, its certainly better than the long haul meals I've had, but its still airplane food and can be bettered at any halfway OK restaurant... Its a good reminder not to fall down the rabbit hole anyway. Uncle Jam fucked around with this message at 03:49 on May 19, 2014 |
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May 19, 2014 03:45
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sellouts posted:Absolutely not, my reimbursements are stress free and thus my confusion here. This just seems like it is penny wise and (euro) foolish. I absolutely agree with you, I mean a 5 person international trip is a pretty serious event. Hell I'd probably get the GPS, bring a department GPS, and also print out all the routes in google maps and put them in a binder. $20 is literally nothing to eliminate a huge risk in the trip. I've worked with people who have penny pinched like this on trips and they do it up until it totally bones them one way or another. I think the usability of those rental GPS units are poo poo though, and my manager agrees, and we have a bunch of Garmins for people to take with them. Driving in a new place is distracting enough with different laws and different driving culture, you're going to have enough on your mind (especially if driving a turd filled with 5 adults on the autobahn hahaha)
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The coolest thing Delta ever did for me was move peoples seat assignments around in business class before we boarded so I could sit next to the gf when we both got upgraded. My favorite dudes are the ones who palm my shoulder 'Excuse me I have to board' during premium boarding. Its payday if my seat is next to them in BC, and they have to get up to let me in (if they don't do that leg bend thing as if there is so much legroom i can by, enjoy my rear end in your face I guess)
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I generally dress like Nirvana's lost 5th member if I have no meetings on either side of the flight. As for age, I always notice a bigger difference in the lounges than in the plane.
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Frequent travel by car doesn't get you any mileage. Ugh, 20 hours in the last 4 days.
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smackfu posted:They like us to use a rental car if it's cheaper, and at a $0.56 per mile rate, it's very often cheaper. And that gets you rental car points at least. The company car I have beats the socks off any rental car, plus it was partially international. It was just the guy that was riding with me wasn't really tune/jam friendly.
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MickeyFinn posted:I totally forgot about those. I think the last time I encountered one of those was on LAX to SAN and that was purely for the novelty. Last time I took SAN to LAX I missed the connection in LAX because Obama flew over the goddamn airport. Thanks Obama.
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Thoguh posted:Only gonna be a little smug right now given how much the collective wisdom of the thread said that a cell phone with google maps wasn't the way to go. That's because gently caress TomTom, they are poo poo. Garmin is the way to go. Having a dedicated GPS is just worth it because it boots and continues your route automatically if you stop somewhere instead of resetting your phone up every time. Honestly I haven't used a dedicated for GPS for about 4 years before now and they have gotten a lot loving better (except for TomToms). The second best part of them is how they show illustrations of the intersections for really complex interchanges. This has saved my rear end a lot. I have more driven miles than flier miles this year hahaha... ehhh Two more things I like over the phone way, speed limit display in whatever you want for kmh/mph confused cars, and lane displays in Japan which help me not go the wrong way down the road even if I'm driving LHD or RHD. Uncle Jam fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Jul 4, 2014 |
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I always like how the desk people claim how the price per gallon is lower if you use the whole tank. That's so hard to beat, you have to roll in on fumes or something. A few times I saw the gas station right outside with a lower price too. Not having to deal with those guys is one of the best FF perks honestly. Our biz class rules are super complicated. You have to be within a certain percentage of the lowest fare of all carriers to qualify. Of course everyone flies the hub carrier at DTW but of course the lowest fare is going to be another carrier. This causes a lot of people to drive to Flint and then connect through DTW to get the percentage fare through Delta.
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Midjack posted:There's no marginal cost to salaried employee time, after all. Starting this year travel counts for overtime for us. 20 hour trips to Asia kind of own now.
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Gigantic mult-city clusterfuck trip. Get upgraded on all routes except the one with the 777 
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That postcard idea kicks rear end, honestly.
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Jul 18, 2014 13:08
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Aristotle Animes posted:Is anyone else getting randomed less at Precheck since they opened it up to more pax? I used to beep and get pulled ~quarter or more of my passes and now it's almost never. Yes, I also noticed this.
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Jul 19, 2014 15:25
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Thoguh posted:Honestly I don't care much about hotel rooms on business travel as long as they are decent. I'd much prefer an airline or car upgrade over a hotel upgrade. The only hotel difference I care much about is lounge access (if they have one). Generally I'm not using the room for anything other than showering and sleeping anyway. Yeah pretty much the only thing I care about is free nights and so on. I like to simmer in nice baths if I have the chance but thats really a by hotel basis and not rooms. Aristotle Animes posted:Exec floor upgrades increase my chances of being insulated from lovely little league trips and the like. I like peace in my room. I've never had this happen really, maybe I'm getting just a level above that stuff? Or really lucky. Its definitely happened on personal trips though, earplugs are nice. The only "problem" I had with organized sports teams is when the Japanese national women's ice hockey team stayed in the same hotel in Wisconsin 
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If you board late is it possible to get separated from your kids on a SWA flight? I've never flown with them and have no idea about their boarding.
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If you live near a hub the easiest way out is the availability of non-stop routes. Its way better to pay a little more than miss a bunch of commitments during the winter when you have a bunch of multileg routes. Every once in a while we start getting pressure about it, but nothing makes it go away faster than a trip with $1500 spent and 2 days time with zero output.
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Aristotle Animes posted:Here's one I'm genuinely curious about that is kind of an old FT chestnut. Where do people stand on viewing content that may be questionable while flying? For me, I can be surprisingly conservative when it comes to offending others and while I spend a good deal of time on planes, I can obviously find another time to catch up on GOT or other HBO soft porn shows. You'll never hear me advocate censorship or uttering the words "family values" without a deriding tone but to me it's just beyond the pale when people watch horror movies with gory violence or nekidd people, subjecting others to their screens. Even if there aren't kids around to see that, you think you might be making other people uncomfortable?? If you are in a window seat or have the screen so it's not viewable to anyone else, knock yourself out. Although I do hate it when people watch war/horror flicks on night flights where their is a lot of strobing light emanating from the video device. Once on a flight to Japan the guy next to me was reading some rape manga with dudes with gigantic dicks on his tab next to me. I really wish it was things_that_didnt_happen.txt but there it loving was. Plus his tab was like 10" and they darken the heck of the cabin during those flights. I really wish he wasn't reading that.
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Don't go down the rabbit hole... I have a doozy of a trip coming up in a few months. 2 weeks in Japan, then 1 week in Austria, then 1 night in Las Vegas (for a silly loving banquet) and back to Detroit. What's the best way to clean my clothes? I don't want to drag a huge rear end trunk around with me everywhere. Some hotels in Japan will do laundry but all the ones that I saw won't wash your underwear. Especially since this trip will have a ton of train travel, I want to try to do it light somehow.
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Mackieman posted:Try to get it done in Japan as public places to wash clothes are hard to come by in Germany and Austria. That said, where in Austria are you going? Salzburg is one of my favorite places on earth, mostly because of the Augustiner Brau. Going to Wien, hope I can get some good German style beer though, I can hear angels sing when I drink that stuff. Anyway, good to know about the laundry situation. If there is some service to wash clothes in Japan that anyone knows of, though, I'm all ears. My backup is to do a load at a friend's place but I'd rather get it done to save some time.
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Thoguh posted:Why is that a thing? That doesn't make any sense to me. I wish I knew, its one of the great mysteries of hotels in Japan. They also fold any clothes you leave out in your room by accident, and it kind of bugs me when that happens for some reason. Midjack posted:Just wear your boxers around in the hotel; the staff will think they're just shorts and wash them then. If only...
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:
Oh yeah that is gonna get expensed. I'll probably just hand wash some laundry in the sink then. Maybe one of the newer biz hotels will have a better laundry. I checked some QA sites in Japan and that seems to be the prevailing method anyway.
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Yeah, put on music, open the window if you can, maybe get some cheap flowers to put out. That said extended stay/long term places own so much more than normal hotels. I've stayed 3 weeks in hotels that are a bed and a desk crammed together with enough space for the room door to open. Definitely get out sometimes though, you can get cabin fever no matter how big the place is.
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Its the airline's fault for making the space so small to be honest. I can't use a laptop anyway because my hands go past the screen when my elbows are pressed against the seat, whether the seat in front is reclined or not.
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Its so weird that seat reclining is like the go to internet argument of flying. There are so many more dick moves than that. Lets see: 1. Opening the window shade every 15 minutes over 8 hours during simulated night so you can check that the ocean is there 2. Getting pissy about the guy in front of you reclining his seat during a 13 hour trans oceanic flight 3. Being loud and obnoxious during a red eye 4. Reclining into the other guy for a 2 hour short haul
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:I think people should ask because in the event that I am working on my laptop (most of the time) I would rather not replace yet another screen bezel because you decided to slam your seat back as quickly as possible. I actually got a 13" laptop from work just to travel with and it was still cramped as poo poo, I had to tent my wrists just to type and gently caress using a trackpad. Then your neck gets sore from try to see the screen because its right up on you. Its like an ergo nightmare.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:The trackpad is a pain in the rear end, so I just use the stupid little eraser nubbin thing. Works way better and your hand is at a more natural angle. No eraser nubbin thing  Wouldn't make a difference probably. From the base of my hand to the tip I can cover the track pad, the whole keyboard from space to f-keys, and quite a bit more on a 16" laptop. I think they might be a little larger than average :/
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Nobody puts their screen in the tray table lip unless they're retarded. However, when someone moves the seat back, the lock for the tray table protrudes the most and that strikes the back of the screen. Usually it just cracks the plastic. Do you fly a lot of tourist routes? I find that flights filled with business travelers, people will ease back way slow if they do recline.
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Fryhtaning posted:Do only straight people bang? If so, I'm sorry to hear that. Congrats! You're going to Skymall's HQ with a side trip to Hammlecher Schlammcher or whatever the gently caress to see THE Self Compacting Garbage Can
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I connected through an airport like that, basically single lane security checks serving four gates each with no way to go between gates except to leave security. But there still was a lot of gates. The only food service in our secure area was one of those bizarre vending machines that you still have to go through a person to buy from. I can't remember where it was at all though
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sellouts posted:Just put on headphones or show up a little later they're just kids god drat there's a lot of complaining here recently I like the rocking chairs they have in San Diego. Those are boss as hell.
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sellouts posted:I can't believe that line of reasoning is a thing. You are legit missing out on life, man. Agreed. Not only that but its surprising that even works. I remember I get set up for my first international business trip a lot sooner than expected and had to rush my passport with the extra fees and stuff. It was basically "I don't have a passport yet." "Well, you better get that fixed quick." I love all the international travel I do though.
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