Posted on 02/19/2025 1:14:40 AM PST by Libloather
About 30 years ago now I traveled about 200 to 250 days a year. My bills usually ran to around $60,000 a year plus airfare amounting to about another $40,000 as I recall. We had been married about 20 years at that point. I found the best way to have peace at home was to have an account for expenses, a family account and gave my wife an annual allowance for household, food and her money. We still do a family and household account. Budget time isn’t fun, she doesn’t know how to do it, so I just give her a raise.
When I was a line manager we approved expense accounts and I hated it. If we missed something that didn’t pass audit we were accountable for it of course. I quickly became an ogre on the matter of expense accounts in every way. When you pay for it all and are reimbursed being careful is motivated.
When we had company cars the only charges allowed were gas, and oil. All service was done at a contract motor pool.
We tried credit cards in the individuals name. Just wasn’t worth it.
Policy in the company was that an irregular expense account item was a firing offense. Only saw it happen once.
In my travels I ate quite a bit of expense that I got behind receipts on. Trying to push it through just wasn’t worth the trouble.
Lose your gubmint job AND the free Starbucks, free strip clubs, free hookers, free high-end steak houses, free tropical vacations and cruises, etc
There is no end to the corruption of many (if not most) government employees. I hesitant to refer to them as government “workers”. Being a parasite is no way to go through life.
All of Army NG aircraft have their own credit cards. Pretty sure that goes nationwide. Gotta buy your fuel some how. Even if you’re buying from a military refueler. I would assume every vehicle and piece of equipment have their own cc also.
I remember fuel cards but that’s all they were allocated for, fuel. Aircraft fuel was tied to squadron funding allotments along with GSE and motoroool vehicles. If you needed gas on the road for gov vehicles it was your gov CC and you got reimbursed. At least it used to be.
” If you needed gas on the road for gov vehicles it was your gov CC and you got reimbursed.”
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When I was in the military I would see the occasional article concerning military court martials because some person would think the government would never catch on to the family car being gassed up using a military card or even at a military pump.
What puzzled me the most about the family car being filled up at the military gas pump... why didn’t *anyone* think to question that while it was actually happening???
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