[bodtwo]

Following on from the question of expense claims for interviews, made me think.

I think the oddest thing I claimed for was a meal from a 'bar' in San Francisco, which had on the receipt 'where good guys meet good girls and have fun'. Met all the corporate guidelines, so went through the system. I didn't read the name on the way in, so reasonably innocent.

A few years later I was asked by the finance person when one of my team put an expense claim in for a two night stay in a hotel in Singapore I think. On the invoice from the hotel it had room, OK, not to excessive bar bill, OK, lots of room service, all ok, then Panama hat and a very expensive 'turn down service' line item.

When quizzed he was quite open about it, work had sent him there so the least we could do was fund his hat and prostitue fetish. He didn't take to kindly when I explained we wouldn't be paying that claim in full.

Anyone else any suitable anecdotes?

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Lol I am just thinking what I can actually put down here lol.

I have had some bizarre expenses in the past.

I once had to claim for a pig / hog (as in an alive one).

When asked, I explained that the company that should have organised the food could not.

So I ended up buying an alive one (I was told to pay for it lol)

Will need to think about the rest lol.

[R0B]

I do a lot of travelling and entertaining in my job - corporate card bill is always 2 or 3 grand a month. I did have on there a £750 meal for three at The Wynn in Vegas last year - plus last month the accountants sent me my statement to code up, I denied it being mine as I didn't recognise the transactions - turns out a colleague and I were so pissed we didn't remember a great number of 50 quid transactions for a pub crawl around Kings Cross!

[HeresMyCar]

I had a meeting in Newcastle. Flights from London to Newcastle were OK to expense at the cheapest fare.

London to Newcastle via Amsterdam was the cheapest option :

[jnismith]

Over the years, I've claimed for a duvet and cover, a kettle, two fines a 3 1/2 lb lobster, a small jar of caviar which I are for lunch, and probably many other things that weren't strictly essential.

[Rbrown]

Somebody who worked for me left her vibrator in a hotel room when she was on an away job.

She claimed for a new one!

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When you come to leave the forces, you can do resettlement courses.

Some do Prince 2 course, some Microsoft, some plumbing, electrician etc.

You (usually) claim the costs of course back and accommodation

A friend of mine, she put a claim in for her course.

What course did she do?

Pole dancing and erotic dancing course.

[Rbrown]

Originally Posted by Brigand

When you come to leave the forces, you can do resettlement courses.

Some do Prince 2 course, some Microsoft, some plumbing, electrician etc.

You (usually) claim the costs of course back and accommodation

A friend of mine, she put a claim in for her course.

What course did she do?

Pole dancing and erotic dancing course.

I would imagine that to approve the claim, she needed to demonstrate her new skills to evidence that she had been on the course!!!!!

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Originally Posted by Rbrown

I would imagine that to approve the claim, she needed to demonstrate her new skills to evidence that she had been on the course!!!!!

I can vouch she was rather good.

While a great mate, she did have a bad habit of walking off with the Doris you had spent the night chatting up.

[Mr NSB]

I had to attend a speed awareness course a few years ago and my boss said to put it on expenses as driver training and he approved it.

[MarkG_M5Comp]

I find Pornstar Martinis always stick out like a sore thumb on expense receipts...

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Not an expense I had to submit, however the Officers Mess at RAF Cranwell had to get an Exocist in and pay for his services lol.

[JustChris]

Originally Posted by Brigand

When you come to leave the forces, you can do resettlement courses.

Some do Prince 2 course, some Microsoft, some plumbing, electrician etc.

You (usually) claim the costs of course back and accommodation

A friend of mine, she put a claim in for her course.

What course did she do?

Pole dancing and erotic dancing course.

Pics?

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Originally Posted by MCarChris

Pics?

Lol I actually used to and probs still have some place.

However, Sue would eunuchise me lol.

[Palexr]

I work for an international company. Our Italian head office is in Milan and this was the chosen place for an annual Sales meeting. We also have a smaller sales office in Naples, normally when they go to Milan they fly or take the train. But on this occasion one of the sales managers drove up to Milan.

After the Meeting his Sales director got an expense claim for car tax from this guy. On being questioned about the claim the chap stated, with a straight face, that in Naples no-one bothers with car tax, in Milan they do. Since he had been forced to drive to Milan he felt it was a justifiable company expense as he might be stopped by the police and forced to show evidence of his tax. Northerners pick on Southerners there don't you know.

True story.

[creepy coupe]

€8 porn film in a German hotel.Showed up as house keeping. And not Helga super Clunge.

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One of my duties on detachments was the Condom Custodian.

For one of Far East tours I was given around 10 boxes of condoms

I think each box contained 70 - 100 condoms.

So yes quite a few lol.

Anyhow, our Herc that had this pack up, went tits up on route.

So I was told to go and buy replacements.

This was in Italy, so proved quite funny at the check out.

While the claim was fun to submit.

The having to go through a civilian airport was even more so, especially when the airport in question was Bangkok lol.

Note: I was the custodian of sealed ones, anyone attempting to return used ones, invariably woke up with sticky hair and a smelly pillow

[aktif8]

I used to have to go to tel aviv at my last gig. One of my guys expensed a receipt from "posicato" next to some Hebrew. Got a somewhat bemused call from our CFO, asking if I authorized an expense line item of a strip club entry fee. Turns out "posicato" is hebrish for "Pussycat lounge"

A few weeks ago I expensed a lunch receipt from a pan Asian place with a generic name (e.g. Bamboo garden or such) and I didn't notice that the waitresses name was actually "nude". I got a call asking about the line item on my receipt that said "server: nude" I have a picture to prove this one, ha.