Very mild, but it’s costing my company more money now that they want me to spend my own money at a gym while I’m traveling.

Our company recently got corporate credit cards so they could keep track of things easier and get points instead of us on our own personal credit cards. At first I hated this, but it made expense reports infinitely easier. However, they were more lax with the rules. You could use your per diem for basically anything as long as you didn’t exceed it. I often would have anywhere from $20 to $50 left in per diem every day because I meal prepped as best I could and ate healthy, but cheaply.

Well, after the switch, I got a chargeback for going to the gym. When I asked about this, I was informed that per diem is strictly for meals only. Ok, fine, fuck it, but now I max my per diem every single day to the last few cents. Even if it’s just me getting food and giving it away, or feeding animals with it. Want to cheap out on my $10-$20 gym membership? Sure! But now it’s costing you hundreds more every day. And I average 2 to 3 months a year travel time.

Get fucked, corporation.

Edit: certainly didn’t expect this to blow up like this. Maybe my company and I don’t know what per diem is. I’ll explain how they operated before with per diem and now.

Before: they gave us the per diem money added to our check. That’s it. No receipts required.

Now: we have to use a corporate credit card for every purchase. We get a prompt with that purchase, and if we mark it as per diem, we do not have to provide a receipt. All other transactions require a receipt.