How much expenses have you NOT expensed back to your company?

[isasir]

I went to get something work-related binded at Kinkos the other day ($5). Technically I could've expensed this, but I didn't want to be that petty. Every now and then I'll do a work-related trip but don't bother expensing the miles (34 cents/mile).

Added up, I guess this amounts to uh, maybe $25 year. Not a big deal at all, but I know other people in the company who are probably closer to $100/yr., and others who are hardass about expensing anything and everything. Where do you stand?

 

[UNCjigga]

LOL...good timing with this thread! I just went over a lot of my receipts back through January '03 and it turns out I'm due back over $1,450 in expenses!!! :Q I should get my check next week.

 

[rh71]

I expense educational trips including seminars and conferences out to NYC... they only total $25 each anyway...

Other than that, if they could pay for the AA batteries that run my assigned pager, that would be good.

 

[isasir]

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
LOL...good timing with this thread! I just went over a lot of my receipts back through January '03 and it turns out I'm due back over $1,450 in expenses!!! :Q I should get my check next week.

Jeez! I tend to fill out expense reports within 3 days of the expense incurred.

I love expensing miles though. I was scheduled to go on vacation in upstate NY on a Thursday. I volunteered to do something work-related that was about 1/2way towards my final destination. The result? I got to expense all my miles and toll up to that point (and from that point back to the office), then after I finished work, drove the rest of the way for vacation.

 

[poopaskoopa]

$122

 

[astartz]

I travel 1 to 2 weekends a month and have a company CC. But if you include taxies, snacks, ect. I must lose $200 a month.

 

[Toasthead]

I never expense the hookers. Just the drinks.

 

[Hoober]

Originally posted by: Toasthead
I never expense the hookers. Just the drinks.

What about the tips?

 

[Cerebus451]

I recently donated 2 80GB hard drives and an ATA RAID card to the company so we could rebuild our Linux machine with a little bit of storage on it so that we could get our PVCS and development directories off of the company-wide data server onto our own server. This will help speed up our builds as well as making the development on our other UNIX machines a lot easier since the NFS software we have running on the NT server sucks ass. I haven't filed an expense report for this because I got tired of waiting for the company to have the cash available to do this, so I did it out of my own pocket. Not sure if I will ever file an expense report for it. I don't travel at all for the company, so I don't really incur business-related expenses that often.

 

[kranky]

Things I don't ask for reimbursement for:

A short trip using my car.
If I buy pizza when people are working late, or if I buy lunch if they are working on Saturday.
Oddball office supplies I pick up on my own.
Occasional LD phone calls from home if I'm off that day.

It's not worth the people's time to process the paperwork for those few dollars. It probably adds up to $150-200/year. But if I need a three-ring binder or a padded mailer for a CD-ROM, I will take those from work knowing I can't buy them for anywhere near as cheap as the company does, and I know the balance is still in the company's favor.

They pay me a lot so I don't nickel-and-dime every last expense.

 

[Banana]

You didn't include choices for negative amounts.

Just kidding--I've neglected to expense a few small snacks and fast food meals. Sometimes I just don't worry about parking or tolls. Not worth the hassle. My company allows $45 a day for meals (before tips), so if I go over that amount, I'll just not expense it. (Don't want to draw attention to myself by exceeding the per diem regularly!)

1YP

 

[radioouman]

One box of paperclips and a cheap plastic business card holder so far this year. ~$1.25

Everything else, I make sure that I expense the company.

 

[yoda291]

Originally posted by: 1YellowPeril
You didn't include choices for negative amounts.

Just kidding--I've neglected to expense a few small snacks and fast food meals. Sometimes I just don't worry about parking or tolls. Not worth the hassle. My company allows $45 a day for meals (before tips), so if I go over that amount, I'll just not expense it. (Don't want to draw attention to myself by exceeding the per diem regularly!)

1YP

How do you spend > 45 dollars/ day on food?

 

[jarfykk]

Negative $846 to date. God bless getting $150 per nite for loding regardless of what the room costs. And God bless Motel 6.

 

[TallBill]

Well not working now.. but when I did, I wasn't to hardnosed about expensing things. Its just not worth the effort. we used to get 35 a day for food expense, and i always went over. Big Dinners are fun

 

[Crab cake]

Originally posted by: kranky
Things I don't ask for reimbursement for:

A short trip using my car.
If I buy pizza when people are working late, or if I buy lunch if they are working on Saturday.
Oddball office supplies I pick up on my own.
Occasional LD phone calls from home if I'm off that day.

It's not worth the people's time to process the paperwork for those few dollars. It probably adds up to $150-200/year. But if I need a three-ring binder or a padded mailer for a CD-ROM, I will take those from work knowing I can't buy them for anywhere near as cheap as the company does, and I know the balance is still in the company's favor.

They pay me a lot so I don't nickel-and-dime every last expense.

I don't know what you mean by paperwork. I submit my expense reports electronically. No papers, no forms, no receipts. Everything is based on the honor code. One could theoretically submit a $150 (company limit) a night hotel bill when they infact stayed at a Motel 6 for $30 and the reimbursement will be directly deposited in their account in one week.

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: Crab cake

Originally posted by: kranky
Things I don't ask for reimbursement for:

A short trip using my car.
If I buy pizza when people are working late, or if I buy lunch if they are working on Saturday.
Oddball office supplies I pick up on my own.
Occasional LD phone calls from home if I'm off that day.

It's not worth the people's time to process the paperwork for those few dollars. It probably adds up to $150-200/year. But if I need a three-ring binder or a padded mailer for a CD-ROM, I will take those from work knowing I can't buy them for anywhere near as cheap as the company does, and I know the balance is still in the company's favor.

They pay me a lot so I don't nickel-and-dime every last expense.

I don't know what you mean by paperwork. I submit my expense reports electronically. No papers, no forms, no receipts. Everything is based on the honor code. One could theoretically submit a $150 (company limit) a night hotel bill when they infact stayed at a Motel 6 for $30 and the reimbursement will be directly deposited in their account in one week.

Who would ever do a thing like that??!!

(See post by jarfykk ^^)

 

[m2kewl]

Originally posted by: Toasthead
I never expense the hookers. Just the drinks.

i do. add 'em to the drink bills.

/looks at his $600 dinner tab :Q