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Re:DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit... by RandallBrown on Thursday February 20, 2025 @06:39PM (#43122018)
I've always found it much easier and faster to make the travel arrangements myself than to do it with a travel agency, but my work travel has always been pretty simple.
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Re:DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit... by stephen_g on Thursday February 20, 2025 @07:03PM (#43122283)
I've had the same experience, especially with making changes - places I've worked where we could arrange the travel, changes would be easy since we'd book flexible, make changes through the airline's web site and not pay fees, but with the travel agent we'd often have to call, so we couldn't easily make changes out of business hours (when we often needed to) and then we'd have to pay the agent a fee for the service of doing something we could have just done on the airline's web site ourselves.
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Re:DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit... by reaperducer on Thursday February 20, 2025 @07:13PM (#43122381)
I've always found it much easier and faster to make the travel arrangements myself than to do it with a travel agency

But that's the point. With the travel agency contact, employees did ZERO work. One day you just got an email with your flight, car and hotel information. The travel agency handled everything.

There was no "working with" an agent. Employees focused on their work, not figuring out travel arrangements.

That you worked with someone tells me we're talking about different things.

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Re:DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit... by RandallBrown on Friday February 21, 2025 @12:03PM (#43129989)
> With the travel agency contact, employees did ZERO work.

I've never worked anywhere where they just sent me flight and hotel information with no input from me. I've always coordinated with the travel agent so I could at least pick a travel time that worked for me.

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Re:DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit... by reaperducer on Friday February 21, 2025 @03:45PM (#43132751)
Conversely, I've never worked anywhere where the employees had input on this sort of thing. The company's paying for it, travel is on company time, so barring conflicts like doctors' appointments, the company tells the employees when and where to go.
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