OT: Maui sucks

[open.seas at verizon.net (Chris)]

Chris,

A few things are not specified, but if accounting give you 30 days to 
pay and you got the nasty call from your supervisor before the 30 days 
ran, it sounds like a lack of, or a mis-communication between accounting 
and your supervisor. It would seem like a good faith error on your 
supervisor's part. Sounds like something that could be cleared up with 
no hard feelings on either side. If the 30 days had passed without a 
payment, it is a whole other issue and the ball would have been in your 
court.

Attend the party. Get out of the office for a few days. Have a good time 
with your wife.

Don't quit. You don't want to be seeking another job and in response to 
the question "Why did you leave your last job?" have to talk about a 
"misunderstanding" about charging personal expenses on a company credit 
card.  It just doesn't sound good. (Besides, it does not seem that the 
misunderstanding [which appears to have been resolved] was serious 
enough to cause one to give up a decent job.)

(And most of all, don't bitch while you are still in Maui! You should 
have waited until you got home for that. :-)   )

Chris

Chris Bennett wrote:
  > I have a question for the masses.  Speaking of traveling for work.  As
> most of you know my aunt passed in July and I had several other deaths
> in the family since, most notable is Andrea's Dad.  Anyhow... I didn't
> have the money to go to the funeral of my aunt, one of my mother's few
> siblings, I was close.  I asked the company to put the tickets on my
> company card and I would get a loan to pay it off a week or so later.
> The travel dept said that was fine as long as I paid it in 30 days.
> Well Accounting paid the tickets off by default and they weren't
> supposed to.  I had the loan I was going to pay my bill with amex when
> Andrea's Dad passed (about two weeks later) and obviously I didn't
> make the payment that week.  I didn't even look at my card so I had no
> idea that it had been paid by the company by mistake.  At the wake I
> get this super nasty phone call from my supervisor questioning ethics
> and basically accusing me of stealing from the company.
> 
> It wouldn't wait till later I had to talk to him at that point despite
> the fact I was at a wake.  I explained it, they grudgingly accepted
> the explanation, and made it sound like they were going to cover for
> me--even though I did nothing wrong.  Which made me angry but I let it
> slide.
> 
> Now... I get an email inviting me to a holiday party at headquarters.
> They are going to fly myself and my wife to Pennsylvania, put us up in
> a hotel for the weekend, rent a car for us and all that for a 5 hour
> Christmas party...  All of the field service techs are invited... so
> that's like 30 techs and spouses (60ish total) flying from all over
> the country for a 5 hour party.  Am I angry?  Am I insulted?  Yea.
> Did I expect the company to pay for my family to go to my aunt's
> funeral.  No. I didn't and I still don't.  What upsets me is the fact
> that the company is willing to have all these people travel to PA and
> I got read the riot act over a misunderstanding and I didn't get an
> apology.  It's not like I was watching a football game when they
> called... I was trying to say goodbye to another loved one.
> 
> Should I go?  Should I be upset?  Should I not hand them my resignation?
> 
> Just venting sorry...
> 
> On 11/28/06, Jan Folkson <jfolkson@optonline.net> wrote:
>> Dude, you just need to get lei-d.
>>
>> - Jan
>>
>> >> It's horrible I am in agony.
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