Re:Algorithmic auditors are exposing employee expense fraud
by candiodari on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @01:59PM
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You are assuming the employer - at least the first level manager, but more likely all the way up - isn't aware of this, and approves.
Allowing expenses as pay is very common, widely practiced and normal. From buying books to hotel room stays to letting family travel along for long trips (and providing entertainment for them). Seems to happen all the time.
Hell, isn't the white house an example of it ?
(I would also like to point out that buying meat for a snake might simply be a mistake. I certainly would have tried feeding a python something dead first, wtf)
For what it's worth: I didn't downvote.
Nevertheless there seems to be an attitude in certain circles that expenses ar a form of free for all.
My assumption is that you have a relationship with your employer, which pays you for work provided. If something stinks in that relationship then it's the stink, which should be removed.
I'm aware that this is an idealized view. Especially in the US where courts seem to be overly employer friendly, or, even worse, where employees are completely shafted by mandatory arbitration clauses.