Re:On Hold for 45 Minutes? It Might Be Your Secret Customer ...
by technofiend on Friday November 02, 2018 @09:13AM
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> Marketing and enterprise sales folks travel a lot on the company dime
Yes, my bad. I just meant at my employer; we've invested heavily in telepresence, so only the bigwigs here get to travel with any regularity. And I was really trying to say without regular travel you won't end up with a meaningful status. For example United has a raft of tiers so unless you're [1] 1K or Global Services [2] you're literally not at the front of the queue for anything. Even their "Group 1" / "Group 2" boarding system meant to speed things up has a giant asterisk that reads "except 1K/GS, they go before anyone else."
[1] I'm using the colloquial "you" here to really mean "one" which sounds very stiff and formal to me. I don't literally mean you.
[2] https://thepointsguy.com/2017/08/united-global-services-in-2...
Re:On Hold for 45 Minutes? It Might Be Your Secret Customer ...
by wenc on Friday November 02, 2018 @09:30AM
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I understand now. My apologies for misunderstanding. Thank you for clarifying.
This isn't really a true statement. Marketing and enterprise sales folks travel a lot on the company dime. I'm on the engineering and consulting staff in my company, and I travel a decent amount, mostly domestic. Most of our engineers do frequent on-sites. One might not be able to get status, but the air miles definitely add up. I've been able to get more than a few free flights and upgrades. I would say it's worth bothering about.