Timeline for Should I reimburse my employer for 25 cents worth of personal calls?
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| Sep 11, 2012 at 13:36 | comment | added | HLGEM | @OlegV.Volkov, what you don't understand is that salaries come from a different set of funds than those to pay things like phone bills. I'm not saying it is the best thing, but it is a fact that many companies operate this way. | |
| Sep 11, 2012 at 11:22 | comment | added | Oleg V. Volkov | @HLGEM, if you make employee spend $10 worth of time to fill papers so you can reclaim $0.50, then only things that "adds up" and "multiplied" is expenses. | |
| Sep 5, 2012 at 15:50 | comment | added | HLGEM | It is relevant because phone costs come from a different financial account than salaries typically. I didn't say it was the best solution only that is it one that many companies and government organizations use. | |
| Sep 5, 2012 at 15:45 | comment | added | Andreas Bonini | It's irrelevant how much it amounts to multiplied by several thousands of employees. If you have 5,000 employees and everyone owes 50 cent of personal calls a month, you can save $30,000 a year which may appear a lot but it's not, because the employees alone cost $250 million in salary, and so on. Making the "with many people over many years" argument is just an illusion, because all the other numbers get bigger too, and your "target number" gets bigger but remains just as insignificant. | |
| Sep 4, 2012 at 22:35 | comment | added | Mark Booth | I would suggest that if the two options are not call, go home on time and not get some work done or make the call, stay late and finish some work then making the call most definitely is a justifiable business necessity. *8') But then I've never worked anywhere where personal phone calls were charged back to me, and have many times claimed personal phone calls on my mobile as expenses as I would never have needed to make those calls had I not been away on business in the first place. | |
| Sep 4, 2012 at 20:43 | history | answered | HLGEM | CC BY-SA 3.0 |