Expenses and Company business trips

[Woz]

Originally Posted by MATTBIN

...by which time I will have left to work at another Company.

Start filling your boots with Laptops then tell them they can have them back when you get your travelling expenses.

You will find, as I have, that the urgency of getting a sig is in direct proportion to the "need". I have often had orders ready for customers who have a bad credit history and are on Pro-Forma but have not paid. The engineer usually rings up desperate for the kit, we tell them that they are crap payers and he usually agreed and apologises for his company's accountants being a bunch of useless to$$ers who think delaying payments as long as possible is clever business practice. So- normally the cheque arrives next day all signes by the boss and everything.

[MATTBIN]

Unfortunately they dont do floats either, add to that I am going to need them to do me a reference I dont think blackmail is an option. Just spoke to my boss an dhe now reckons Darlington have to pay it. So its gone full circle and I am still out of pocket. I aint ever going away on Company business again without cash up front.

Matt

[Andy the Coastie]

Matt,

I have been sub contracted by your firm before ,,,,,,, and i'll never work for them again.

1). After a agreed contract, they failed to pay me with 28 days,,, after kept getting flobbed off on the phone and E:mails, after i said i was adding a 5 % daily interest rate, they soon coughed up,,,,,, 83 days later.

2). Some 20 year old spotty mummy's boy, telling me how to run my boat ' OFF SITE '.

3) Trying to ' OFF HIRE ' me whilst still on the job bad move.

Yep, i'll wait to see how many days it takes to get your expenses back

[Deborah3108]

Originally Posted by jackadam

steady about the Darlington comments,

Yes, I agree.
And I work at the station!!!

[Scuttler]

Sorry to hear about your experience. I have worked for several companies and travel extensively. I usually rack up about £3k a month in expenses. Fortunately I can book most of it to a company credit card but I still end up being owed around £300 - £400 a month. It really buggers up your cash flow and once has led to a bounced DD which I then added to my expenses claim . I have found since that day they pay within one week of me submitting my expenses. I see no reason why a company of any size which expects it's employees to travel cannot provide a float which has to be accounted for and repaid within 48 hours of your return from the trip!

[JohnK]

Ask them who signs the cheques to pay the bills - thats your man !!

[Justin Owen]

i've waited upto 3 months for expenses before now... i just started putting the credit card interest on my expenses return!

p's me off tho how you're expected to pay yourself for essential business travel and then they keep you waiting though...

[Ian@1904]

Being a beancounter that has also done a fair bit of business travel I have a lot of sympathy for you Matt. I take it you have never submitted an expense claim before for the company.

I suspect that the project managers, who are running to tight budgets are trying to offload the expense to another project.

I have always taken the view that the sooner expenses are submitted the sooner they are paid. Fast. I have encountered quite a few people very slow to submit expenses-3 months late who then wonder why I am not concerned about their predicament. In my last company one employee submitted no claims for twelve months - about £4k, she lost the lot when the company went down.

Have you tried contact the HR department, it might be a breach of your human rights