Office Space
Nov. 7th, 2005 01:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ambericaI have a bit of a rant about one of the departments at my work.
I made some purchases for a Forum we had here during the last week of September. I put $732.55 on my corporate credit card, and submitted the expense report online immediately on 9/27/05. It was approved right away.
Good.
I mailed my reciepts to Expense Reporting/Accounts Payable that same day, and they recieved them on October 3rd (they are in Oregon). This has been verified. I called once and emailed once to have this confirmed. No problems with the report or reciepts.
Good.
The bill came for my corp. credit card last month. I had not been reimbursed for the $732.55 yet, so I let the bill sit on my desk until the day before it was due. No reimbursement. I paid the bill online, out of my own pocket, on 10/27/05, a month after I had submitted the report for that expense.
Bad.
I emailed Accounts Payable again and was assured by Wendy R. that my report would be processed in the order it was recieved.
Good, EXCEPT...
I had submitted another report AFTER this one, and it got processed AND I recieved my reimbursement LAST WEEK.
BAD.
Order in which it was recieved is BULLSHIT. I sent the second report AFTER the 3rd of October, the date they confirm that they got the FIRST report. There is no way in hell my second report time-traveled and arrived BEFORE I sent it.
Or is there...?
No, there's not. So I emailed Wendy L., with whom I was working on the event in September, for advice. She said she submitted all her expense reports on September 30 (three days AFTER mine) and got reimbursed on October 21.
WHAT??
Wendy L. offered to try emailing Accounts Payable on my behalf. She didn't know if she'd have much more influence on them than I did, but it was "her" event and she felt bad that I've alread had to pay for this out-of-pocket and still haven't been repaid over a month later. She emailed Irene in Expense Reporting, who forwarded the message straight back to Wendy R. in Accounts Payable again!! Wendy R. told Wendy L. that the report was being processed as quickly as possible. Wendy L. forwarded this back to me and apoligized for not being of much assistance to my cause.
That's OK, she is an awesome gal and I am so happy that she was willing to at least try to help me.
Ugh.
So here I am. I've exhausted all my options, which weren't many to begin with. There are allegedly no problems with my report, it's just moving in slow motion I guess. I've donated over $700 of my own damn money to this stupid Forum as of right now, and I swear if I don't get reimbursed by the end of THIS month, I will throw a fit and go crying to my boss to knock some heads together. He's awesome.
I made some purchases for a Forum we had here during the last week of September. I put $732.55 on my corporate credit card, and submitted the expense report online immediately on 9/27/05. It was approved right away.
Good.
I mailed my reciepts to Expense Reporting/Accounts Payable that same day, and they recieved them on October 3rd (they are in Oregon). This has been verified. I called once and emailed once to have this confirmed. No problems with the report or reciepts.
Good.
The bill came for my corp. credit card last month. I had not been reimbursed for the $732.55 yet, so I let the bill sit on my desk until the day before it was due. No reimbursement. I paid the bill online, out of my own pocket, on 10/27/05, a month after I had submitted the report for that expense.
Bad.
I emailed Accounts Payable again and was assured by Wendy R. that my report would be processed in the order it was recieved.
Good, EXCEPT...
I had submitted another report AFTER this one, and it got processed AND I recieved my reimbursement LAST WEEK.
BAD.
Order in which it was recieved is BULLSHIT. I sent the second report AFTER the 3rd of October, the date they confirm that they got the FIRST report. There is no way in hell my second report time-traveled and arrived BEFORE I sent it.
Or is there...?
No, there's not. So I emailed Wendy L., with whom I was working on the event in September, for advice. She said she submitted all her expense reports on September 30 (three days AFTER mine) and got reimbursed on October 21.
WHAT??
Wendy L. offered to try emailing Accounts Payable on my behalf. She didn't know if she'd have much more influence on them than I did, but it was "her" event and she felt bad that I've alread had to pay for this out-of-pocket and still haven't been repaid over a month later. She emailed Irene in Expense Reporting, who forwarded the message straight back to Wendy R. in Accounts Payable again!! Wendy R. told Wendy L. that the report was being processed as quickly as possible. Wendy L. forwarded this back to me and apoligized for not being of much assistance to my cause.
That's OK, she is an awesome gal and I am so happy that she was willing to at least try to help me.
Ugh.
So here I am. I've exhausted all my options, which weren't many to begin with. There are allegedly no problems with my report, it's just moving in slow motion I guess. I've donated over $700 of my own damn money to this stupid Forum as of right now, and I swear if I don't get reimbursed by the end of THIS month, I will throw a fit and go crying to my boss to knock some heads together. He's awesome.
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Date: 2005-11-07 03:00 pm (UTC)So that's why I had to pay it before getting reimbursed. >:(
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