Company-sponsored trips

ebbomega · #1 (**permalink**) Mar 02, 06

So, i get to go to Redmond to get trained at the Microsoft compound for four days. all-expense paid trip with a hotel in seattle, a rental car, meals paid for, the works. also get access to the store in redmond where i can pick up hella cheap copies of microsoft software (helloooooooo 25 usd winxp pro!).

fucking stoked. wonder if i get any 'entertainment expenses'. beheheheheh.

Liqwid · #2 (**permalink**) Mar 02, 06

fuckin rmh

#3 (**permalink**) Mar 02, 06

Can I make purchase requests?

ps - if you get 'entertainment expenses' I have a friend that works as a stripper down there!

ebbomega · #4 (**permalink**) Mar 02, 06

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Originally Posted by Liqwid

fuckin rmh

i agree.

we just fucking unionized. i really hope that i make staff before any contract is settled on... honestly, money is the least of my worries with my job. i'm young and fairly inexperienced in the tech industry, i can deal with being paid shit money for shit work. it's paying my dues and everyone's gotta go through it. my two main complaints at rmh are:
- upper management practically invisible to the common agent (and therefore really difficult to approach... but i've since lost the major pain-in-the-ass pointy-haired boss so it's been a bit better lately)
- so bogged down with policy that it becomes so difficult to actually do the work that i'm supposed to be doing (ie fixing people's computers).

i fail to see how a union is going to make those anything but worse.

ebbomega · #5 (**permalink**) Mar 02, 06

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Originally Posted by Avana

Can I make purchase requests?

you can, but how many of those requests made depends entirely on you supplying me with the following:
- hookers
- blow

yes, i know how difficult they will be to get across the border... let me worry about that. JUST MAKE IT HAPPEN!

Liqwid · #6 (**permalink**) Mar 02, 06

ugh.......i feel soo bad for you.........

i made like over 10K in the 5.5months i was there tho.......that impressed me. then they took away commission.

.dalyn.

#7 (**permalink**) Mar 02, 06

Dave how about I just get someone to meet you on the other side of the border with those requests?

FeelGood · #8 (**permalink**) Mar 02, 06

hoooooookers and bloooooow!
they go together like lesbians and dildos.

ebbomega · #9 (**permalink**) Mar 02, 06

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Originally Posted by Avana

Dave how about I just get someone to meet you on the other side of the border with those requests?

what fun is crossing the border if i'm not smuggling anything?

#10 (**permalink**) Mar 02, 06

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Originally Posted by ebbomega

what fun is crossing the border if i'm not smuggling anything?

Horray for anal probes!

Seriously though, I want a legal copy of xp and a wireless nic card, can you help a sister out?

ebbomega · #11 (**permalink**) Mar 02, 06

i dunno about the wireless nic but the copy of xp should be no prob. i'll see what i can do.

galaxie · #12 (**permalink**) Mar 02, 06

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Originally Posted by Liqwid

ugh.......i feel soo bad for you.........

i made like over 10K in the 5.5months i was there tho.......that impressed me. then they took away commission.

.dalyn.

Woah.......WHAT?

That was GOOD money? Dalyn you need a better job my dear!

Leviathan · #13 (**permalink**) Mar 02, 06

The general guideline set out by the government is 70 dollars a day of per diem money in the currency of the country in which you are staying. It is broken down into breakfast, lunch, dinner and incedentals. The room and board should be paid separately by the company. Its nice because you can save some extra cash and just eat cheap. This doesn't have to be followed though.

Alot of companies will just reimburst you which blows for the person travelling and ends up costing the company more to go through all the reciepts and crap.

clevich · #14 (**permalink**) Mar 02, 06

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Originally Posted by Liqwid

ugh.......i feel soo bad for you.........

i made like over 10K in the 5.5months i was there tho.......that impressed me. then they took away commission.

.dalyn.

shit... I even make more than that. :154:

ebbomega · #15 (**permalink**) Mar 02, 06

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Originally Posted by Leviathan

Alot of companies will just reimburst you which blows for the person travelling and ends up costing the company more to go through all the reciepts and crap.

Welcome to NCO, masters of the dumbtarded and keepers of the whiskey tango foxtrot.

Gelco expense accounts, what a great idea.

The company _could_ spend a lot of money on going through receipts, or they could do what everybody else does in the call center world and just frigging outsource it.

Akeel · #16 (**permalink**) Mar 02, 06

Dave!

can i get some software too please?

i'll buy you candy!

MissBehavior · #17 (**permalink**) Mar 02, 06

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Originally Posted by Akeel

Dave!

can i get some software too please?

i'll buy you candy!

DAVE!

Don't take candy from strangers (and they don't get much stranger than Akeel... ;) )

ebbomega · #18 (**permalink**) Mar 03, 06

they're gonna look at me weird when i walk up to the till with like 5 copies of winxp and 4 copies of office 2003.

'yeah, these are all for me....'

#19 (**permalink**) Mar 03, 06

Uhhhh, can I request office as well as xp, or am I just getting greedy now?

ebbomega · #20 (**permalink**) Mar 03, 06

This is all still falling under "I'll see what I can do."

#21 (**permalink**) Mar 03, 06

*ahem*

Top of list for asking first and promising hookers and blow right?

ebbomega · #22 (**permalink**) Mar 03, 06

Depends on the hookers. Are we talking like Seymore St. or Kingsway?

#23 (**permalink**) Mar 03, 06

Totally not Seymour, Seymour is the mens side. You want Richards.....

ebbomega · #24 (**permalink**) Mar 03, 06

this change in the last few years? As I recall, Seymore was prime for the 15 year old chicks made out to look 40 and the 40 year old chicks made out to look 15...

cubed · #25 (**permalink**) Mar 03, 06

avana is just confused and has been loving tranny's for a while.