Work Vent: Add yours! (Or any other vent!)

[theatre4life]

Backstory: Up until recently, we had 13 people in our office, including 2 admins, and me that can cover as an admin, but is not my primary job. (Accounting is.) One admin does her expense report, and the senior guys expense report, and the other admin did the seven expense reports. (I do mine, and the other four people were hired over the summer, so they didn't factor into this initially.) Admin number 2 went out on sick leave in May, should have been gone for 6 weeks tops. I took over all of her expense reports, except for one, which the other admin took. Well, admin number 2 had some complications, and she was just let go from the company (after being out for 16 weeks.) In the time that she was gone, I ended up with the four additional expense reports, on top of everything else, that is you know, my actual job. (2 of them are gone, they were summer interns, but the other two are permanent hires.) I will also point out that Admin number 1 is actually my boss.

So the vent: We reimburse for mileage/tolls/parking, which is genuinely no big deal.  All I say is, send me the location (I don't even need the address, just the company name) the date, and whether or not you started/ended from the office. I will do the mapquest, and work out the mileage. I do 10 people's expense reports, along with everything else I do. (To the point where my boss had a melt down about being overwhelmed by everything that has to be done while I am out on mat leave.) I do not feel like this is asking too much, if they want to get reimbursed. 

One of the guys went crying to my boss, about how he is not getting reimbursed for mileage, and that the other admin used to do it, blah blah blah. So she did it, and we had a talk about it today. She was like "Well, I have found the best way to do it, is to look at their calendar, figure out what is work related, what and find the companies off of that, then print the mapquests out, and fill out this spreadsheet, then enter it in." I just kind of looked at her for a minute, and went "Seriously? That is somehow easier, then them sending me an email saying where they went on a given day? I'm sorry, but I truly do not have time to go through their calendars to figure out when in the hell they drove somewhere and should get reimbursed for it." Followed by, me saying "literally, every.single.other. person in the office does not have this problem." And walking out of her office.

I feel like now that she has done this once, this will forever be a thing, and since they are not replacing the fired admin (and I will be surprised if my temp makes it through my maternity leave), that I will be screwd. It just frustrates the hell out of me that grown ass men, who want their $15 reimbursement for mileage (which, our reimbursement rate is forty-two cents a mile, so it's not like we are talking DOLLA DOLLA bills, yo!) can't be bothered to take 10 seconds to send an email, saving us an hour plus of work (assuming they have multiple trips in a month). I don't feel like I am asking for too much....especially not if everyone else in the office does not have this problem. This whole thing had just frustrated me to no end.

And if you made it through all of this, you deserve a cookie!! PDQ, I may delete chunks of the detail.

[sapphire bou]

I don't understand why people find it so hard to send a quick FYI email. I'm sorry you're having to put up with all this crap when you're about to pop out a baby. I hopes it's not a total mess when you come back from mat leave.

I don't have any major work vents at this point. Especially after reading the stupidity you're dealing with.

[alabasterangel]

Chocolate chip please. We use to have to do our own mileage figuring. I'd have loved having someone do any part of it for me.

[blondemoment123]

If you schedule a showing, have the decency to show up. People suck.


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[Deleted]

Ummmm... I have to fill out my own expense report, complete with where I traveled and any mileage incurred.

Laziness, pure laziness.