When Your Company Books Travel For You
Them-”By the way (since your time means nothing to me), I have booked you out on Sunday morning at 6 am, even though you don’t have an appointment until Monday mid-morning. However, we were able to save $50 on the airfare.
Them-”Your rental car has been booked for you, but it’s not a company you’ve heard of. There is no Gold Service, so it’s probably a good thing that you are getting there so early on Sunday. It will be 6 pm before you get out of the rental lot.”
Them-”Your hotel has been booked for you. The travel agent says they have recently installed new bars on the windows. But don’t walk anywhere except directly to your car and have your car keys jutting out between your fingers in case you have to take a swing at someone.”
Them-”Rather than rush to get to your flight on Thursday, why don’t you just stay over and catch a morning flight the next day. By the way, even though that means you have to get up at 2 am California time (5 am on the east coast) to catch that 6.30 am flight, I still will be very disappointed if you don’t come into the office upon your arrival. But go ahead and go home around 4.30 pm, if you are a little tired…”
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April 29th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
This is all very true. I have experienced this in the past. Most companies just don’t care at all. They don’t worry if the plans and times they set up will effect you…they just want the work done. But they don’t realize that making life easier on their workers will result in happier employees who will do better work. Most companies will never learn.