Employee Barely Uses Her Daily Expenses Paid With Company Money, Gets Told Off For One Time Going $1.50 Over The Limit, Decides To Maliciously Comply
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There are all kinds of jobs that require different levels of expertise as well as being able to travel when needed. Usually, such workplaces make sure to provide their employees with certain benefits that would allow them to be fully concentrated on their work duties and not think about things such as food and accommodation expenses. But sometimes even perks such as these can lead to confusion. This is why one Reddit user, @CinnamonBunBun, decided to share her work-related story with other people online. The woman revealed that she has to travel a lot because of her job. Having in mind how busy she is and how hard it is sometimes for her to find a place and time to eat, she admitted that sometimes she skips her meals or just gets a cup of coffee. The narrator also shared that in situations where employees have to travel, they are given $30 a day to spend on food, which sounds like a good thing that the employee tend to use.
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A woman online shared how her workplace made her change her money-spending habits by rejecting her expenses when she went $1.50 over her daily budget
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The woman continued her story, stating that despite this sum being just fine for most of the time, sometimes it’s hard to fit in $30. For quite some time, there were no problems, because it wasn’t every day that the woman would use the whole amount, so the company had no trouble balancing out the expenses. However, everything changed when the company made some changes, and now someone else was responsible for checking and taking care of these daily expenses.
The story started with the woman stating that she travels a lot for her work and that because of this, she’s allowed to spend $30 per day on food
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Everything started with the employee spending a little bit over the settled amount and providing her expenses to the company with the amount of $31.50. Previously she’d had no problem with this, but now the newly assigned team didn’t approve of this and rejected her report as it was “over the daily limit.”
The employee knew that sometimes she can go a little bit over that amount because the team back at the company was able to balance it out
However, the newly assigned team decided that she couldn’t do this anymore and rejected her expenses
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The woman tried to explain how the previous system worked and that they should be able to balance it out with times she didn’t use her daily allowance. However, she was shut down and this left her upset. This is when the woman decided that she would make sure to spend the given $30 every day, no matter if she was hungry or not. The author of the post revealed that she would buy some food that she would bring home to her husband, or simply take something for the sake of spending the money.
This situation left woman upset so she decided that now she will make sure to spend the whole amount no matter what
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The employee who used to provide the company with expenses that were as low as $100 a month would now come back with bills that were 2-3 times higher. The woman also shared that she used to work all day without any breaks, but this situation made her realize that she shouldn’t do this for them, and so she now always makes sure to take her 30-minute break.
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People online were quick to share their own experiences of spending work allowance. Some of them would buy restaurant gift cards or spend this money on other people’s orders. Some users revealed their company’s policy that would sometimes also put them in an uncomfortable position. Other people online noticed that $30 a day isn’t a lot and that their companies usually offer something between $75-$100. In the comments, the woman revealed that she’s been looking for a new job as she’s no longer happy with the way she’s been treated in the current company.
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People online started providing the employee with tips and tricks for using the money to help others who need food if she doesn’t feel like spending it on herself
Some users online also shared their own experience while having to travel for work and use the company’s money for food and other needs
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This may be off topic but not taking breaks or eating is so unhealthy for you. Even if a diner/restaurant didn't have healthy choices, you could go to a super market and maybe get a ready made salad. Even the hotels have food you can order. Plus tossing food to be spiteful is such a waste.
[1/3]Come on then, own up! Who did it? Which one of you Panda's p!ssed in ol' Johnny-boys cornflakes? If you're honest and admit it you won't get in any trouble.. Seriously though... Most healthcare professionals are dedicated, hard working people who regularly go above and beyond the call of duty, and I have every respect for those people💙 so it's a real shame when d!ckheads like little johnboy here come along and ruin the reputation of healthcare workers everywhere - there's a very small percentage of HCP's (just the same as there are in any line of work) who are just pathetic, frustrated, miserable, wasters that carry around a chip on their shoulder that's the size of a small African nation, and makes sure everyone knows about it. When you hear someone saying "that hospital is sh!t", "nurses are evil, they don't care about you", "that receptionist acts
[2/3]as if he’s a consultant, he only does the job because he’s on a power trip”, that’s not reflective of the hard working HCP’s, that’s because they’ve had a run in with little john. Patient left alone in agony, frightened and pleading for help for twelve hours? That’s johny, because saying “you don’t look like you’re in pain to me, stop making a fuss” then unplugging their emergency call bell makes him feel powerful. Patients who arrive in an ambulance, only to get refused treatment because they’re “faking it” or “drug seeking”, only to give birth / have a seizure / die back out in the car park? John. He’s desperate to act like he’s hard done by – the white, well educated, native English speaker who has good education, a well paid full time job with healthcare pto and a pension, and secure accommodation, screaming at people he doesn’t know about entitlement? K.
[3/3]HCP’s work crazy hard, but the john’s of the world make them all look bad. Little johnny (likely a guy who empties bedpans all day then goes to the bar wearing a tie, his hospital id, and a toy stethoscope from eBay) acts like someone put a gun to his head and forced him to do the job. He acts like he is the entire hospital, the only person keeping everyone alive. Acts like he didn’t choose to do the job, and like he doesn’t get paid for doing it. Like the whole world owes him something because of the career he chooses to do, like there’s no one else who can do it and he’s a hero. Little John is the guy in that TikTok who goes viral for screaming at a Wendy’s worker till she cries for not giving him a free lunch.
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As a healthcare professional, your statement here is accurate enough, but it's also hollow and smacks of entitlement. Despite labor laws, many of us (nurses, pharmacists, doctors) hardly ever get a lunch. Yes, we could DEMAND to go sit somewhere for 30 minutes and no one would tell us no because of the laws, but we choose to treat our patients and not make them wait. You have benefitted from this without even knowing. And ours aren't the only professions where people choose to do this. I will choose to skip my lunch today, as will the majority of my coworkers, and our patients will be better cared for because of it. And please, don't let your response be "well they should hire more people!" - that will only further expose your ignorance and entitlement.
Hey healthcare Ken! (as in male Karen). You not taking your breaks, eating your lunch, or not doing anything else you are actually entitled to doesn't make someone else entitled, and it darn sure doesn't make you special. If you are doing that because there are not enough workers to get everything done, guess what? You and everyone like you enable that. Of course, they won't hire more help as long as you are all working more than you should to get things done. That doesn't make you special at all. It makes you quite dumb actually. Quit patting yourself on the back for being dumb...
Thank you for all you do but please take your anger out on the right people. This isn’t the right person. The example they are responding to also isn’t of a health professionals, so was understandably not what they were thinking about. Many professions suffer stress and breakdowns and we all have to make choices and sacrifices, and their advice is spot on for many, just unfortunately in this case not for you. I understand your anger, but not where you’ve directed it.
nobody cares john, talk to your supervisor and/or HR if you are unhappy with your work environment
I know and worked with a lot of doctors. In these days with the rise of "Urgent Care" centers, the entire medical staff works the full 12 hours plus, without meals or breaks. When quitting time comes, these people want to GO! Nope, if a patient sneaks in at 8:55pm everyone has to stay and that happens every day Total burn out is inevitable.
A few things: One - wasting food just to stick it to some HR pricks that won't even notice (it's probably computerized and only notifies them when it is over) Two: Does she have some sort of eating issue, bc she talks about not "eating at all" quite often and then when she does eat, its a few nibbles. That just makes me think.
Most often I see this when the employee takes the hotel's 'complimentary' breakfast. Fill up there and you may not need lunch, so dinner is the only expense you'll report. Or perhaps she's like me and just doesn't need much through the day.
She specifically says she doesn't eat most days. And congrats to you for not "needing" much through the day! Also, I'm thin so this isn't about jealousy. I've just become really attuned to eating disorder signs.
Especially how she kept repeating it, and then would say that she stopped and got a coffee, which was all she had for the day. I don't mean to presuppose, and the per diem part was weird, but I think she inadvertently (or not?) altered people to her eating disorder. I hope she gets help.
Some people just eats less. My partner for example only eats dinner so he would likely be the entire qork day jsut with a coffee
I’m like her and I’m in the perfectly normal / not skinny or fat weight category. I don’t eat all day because I don’t have time and because I don’t eat dairy or eggs, there’s never really good options. I have done personal chefs and catered delivery and just eating out and all of it but all of that is way more complex than just waiting until I get home and holding myself over with soy jerky and matcha until then. Maybe she is plant based or maybe she just doesn’t have time to think about it. I’m both and I basically gave up dealing with it.
She said she would buy something to eat, take a few bites, and throw the rest out.
Yeah that was glaring
The one commenter who gets gift cards on his company dime needs to be careful. That is technically embezzlement so as long as they don't ask for receipts, he will be fine. It's a clever method but gotta be careful. Losing your job or the legal headache is worth a free dinners
Yeaaaaah, I've been in my industry for 20+ years and I can't even tell you how many people I've seen fired for doing s**t like that. It's like stepping over a dollar to pick up a nickel.
But the nickel is so shiny
Free nickel! Boss, let me tell you where you can shove my paycheck. I am off to get that free money!
This may be off topic but not taking breaks or eating is so unhealthy for you. Even if a diner/restaurant didn't have healthy choices, you could go to a super market and maybe get a ready made salad. Even the hotels have food you can order. Plus tossing food to be spiteful is such a waste.
[1/3]Come on then, own up! Who did it? Which one of you Panda's p!ssed in ol' Johnny-boys cornflakes? If you're honest and admit it you won't get in any trouble.. Seriously though... Most healthcare professionals are dedicated, hard working people who regularly go above and beyond the call of duty, and I have every respect for those people💙 so it's a real shame when d!ckheads like little johnboy here come along and ruin the reputation of healthcare workers everywhere - there's a very small percentage of HCP's (just the same as there are in any line of work) who are just pathetic, frustrated, miserable, wasters that carry around a chip on their shoulder that's the size of a small African nation, and makes sure everyone knows about it. When you hear someone saying "that hospital is sh!t", "nurses are evil, they don't care about you", "that receptionist acts
[2/3]as if he’s a consultant, he only does the job because he’s on a power trip”, that’s not reflective of the hard working HCP’s, that’s because they’ve had a run in with little john. Patient left alone in agony, frightened and pleading for help for twelve hours? That’s johny, because saying “you don’t look like you’re in pain to me, stop making a fuss” then unplugging their emergency call bell makes him feel powerful. Patients who arrive in an ambulance, only to get refused treatment because they’re “faking it” or “drug seeking”, only to give birth / have a seizure / die back out in the car park? John. He’s desperate to act like he’s hard done by – the white, well educated, native English speaker who has good education, a well paid full time job with healthcare pto and a pension, and secure accommodation, screaming at people he doesn’t know about entitlement? K.
[3/3]HCP’s work crazy hard, but the john’s of the world make them all look bad. Little johnny (likely a guy who empties bedpans all day then goes to the bar wearing a tie, his hospital id, and a toy stethoscope from eBay) acts like someone put a gun to his head and forced him to do the job. He acts like he is the entire hospital, the only person keeping everyone alive. Acts like he didn’t choose to do the job, and like he doesn’t get paid for doing it. Like the whole world owes him something because of the career he chooses to do, like there’s no one else who can do it and he’s a hero. Little John is the guy in that TikTok who goes viral for screaming at a Wendy’s worker till she cries for not giving him a free lunch.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
As a healthcare professional, your statement here is accurate enough, but it's also hollow and smacks of entitlement. Despite labor laws, many of us (nurses, pharmacists, doctors) hardly ever get a lunch. Yes, we could DEMAND to go sit somewhere for 30 minutes and no one would tell us no because of the laws, but we choose to treat our patients and not make them wait. You have benefitted from this without even knowing. And ours aren't the only professions where people choose to do this. I will choose to skip my lunch today, as will the majority of my coworkers, and our patients will be better cared for because of it. And please, don't let your response be "well they should hire more people!" - that will only further expose your ignorance and entitlement.
Hey healthcare Ken! (as in male Karen). You not taking your breaks, eating your lunch, or not doing anything else you are actually entitled to doesn't make someone else entitled, and it darn sure doesn't make you special. If you are doing that because there are not enough workers to get everything done, guess what? You and everyone like you enable that. Of course, they won't hire more help as long as you are all working more than you should to get things done. That doesn't make you special at all. It makes you quite dumb actually. Quit patting yourself on the back for being dumb...
Thank you for all you do but please take your anger out on the right people. This isn’t the right person. The example they are responding to also isn’t of a health professionals, so was understandably not what they were thinking about. Many professions suffer stress and breakdowns and we all have to make choices and sacrifices, and their advice is spot on for many, just unfortunately in this case not for you. I understand your anger, but not where you’ve directed it.
nobody cares john, talk to your supervisor and/or HR if you are unhappy with your work environment
I know and worked with a lot of doctors. In these days with the rise of "Urgent Care" centers, the entire medical staff works the full 12 hours plus, without meals or breaks. When quitting time comes, these people want to GO! Nope, if a patient sneaks in at 8:55pm everyone has to stay and that happens every day Total burn out is inevitable.
A few things: One - wasting food just to stick it to some HR pricks that won't even notice (it's probably computerized and only notifies them when it is over) Two: Does she have some sort of eating issue, bc she talks about not "eating at all" quite often and then when she does eat, its a few nibbles. That just makes me think.
Most often I see this when the employee takes the hotel's 'complimentary' breakfast. Fill up there and you may not need lunch, so dinner is the only expense you'll report. Or perhaps she's like me and just doesn't need much through the day.
She specifically says she doesn't eat most days. And congrats to you for not "needing" much through the day! Also, I'm thin so this isn't about jealousy. I've just become really attuned to eating disorder signs.
Especially how she kept repeating it, and then would say that she stopped and got a coffee, which was all she had for the day. I don't mean to presuppose, and the per diem part was weird, but I think she inadvertently (or not?) altered people to her eating disorder. I hope she gets help.
Some people just eats less. My partner for example only eats dinner so he would likely be the entire qork day jsut with a coffee
I’m like her and I’m in the perfectly normal / not skinny or fat weight category. I don’t eat all day because I don’t have time and because I don’t eat dairy or eggs, there’s never really good options. I have done personal chefs and catered delivery and just eating out and all of it but all of that is way more complex than just waiting until I get home and holding myself over with soy jerky and matcha until then. Maybe she is plant based or maybe she just doesn’t have time to think about it. I’m both and I basically gave up dealing with it.
She said she would buy something to eat, take a few bites, and throw the rest out.
Yeah that was glaring
The one commenter who gets gift cards on his company dime needs to be careful. That is technically embezzlement so as long as they don't ask for receipts, he will be fine. It's a clever method but gotta be careful. Losing your job or the legal headache is worth a free dinners
Yeaaaaah, I've been in my industry for 20+ years and I can't even tell you how many people I've seen fired for doing s**t like that. It's like stepping over a dollar to pick up a nickel.
But the nickel is so shiny
Free nickel! Boss, let me tell you where you can shove my paycheck. I am off to get that free money!