I like the part of my job I’m paid to do, but the people I work for that don’t pay me are on my last damn nerve. My “other boss” is a shithead. No other word. He was on my ass all last week to get him travel stuff in from a trip he took over 2 months ago. What the hell?! Why didn’t he address this sooner? He said “You’ll need to include my registration on this one,” and so I asked him for a receipt. He said he didn’t have one and to call some random person at some organization. No phone number. Gee, thanks. I call her twice last week and didn’t get a call back, so I processed everything sans the registration. I told him whenever he got the receipt he could claim it on his taxes.
So she called back today. He never registered for that fucking conference. So he lied and gave me shit about something that was actually his problem. Not only that, but the envelope of receipts from the other trip that I had to process for reimbursement was full of bar tabs. Good luck getting the University to pay for those. I think he has a drinking problem. And he apparently was buying drinks for other people. Either that or he had 4 drinks in an hour. In either case, I know more than I wanted to know.
I may look to be a grad assistant next academic year so I don’t have to deal w/ his annoying ass any longer than I have to.
Maybe it’s just me, but I have a really hard time asking my company to reimburse me for alcohol. They do it routinely (some people were drinking beer/wine at the dinner we took consultants to last week) and after JCAHO we went out for celebratory drinks per the CFOs instruction “go have some drinks on us, you deserve it” but I only had one drink b/c I just felt like it was WRONG. While meanwhile one woman drank almost an entire bottle of expensive champagne (we were at Highlands so nothing was cheap). The few business trips I’ve been on, if I’ve had alcohol I’ve left it off of the amount I ask to be reimbursed. Am I just overly conscious or does it make any sense at all??
I think that you are doing what’s ethical. Why should your work pay for alcohol. There are also issues of liability (say your company paid for your alcohol one night and then you went out and hit somebody or got a DUI) that make not paying for alcohol pretty smart. The UA won’t pay because it’s a state-funded institution. I have been to a few university events where the alcohol was there and free, but not many. Mostly law school stuff, and that’s a whole other animal.