It's not a "thought" crime if what you're watching (and thereby encouraging the production of) is illegal to view.
Watching something does not encourage the production of something. When you stop and rubberneck at an accident, does that mean you love accidents and want to encourage the production of them?
Drop that per diem to $20 for food
$20 for food? Well, that will get you through breakfast if you are a lousy tipper.
, add an extra $20 for taxi or mass transit if they don't have rental car.
Better make sure the hotel is within a mile or two of the work place and you don't go anywhere for lunch.
It doesn't cost that much to process the receipts
It takes me about half an hour for a week long trip. That is about $100 cost to the company. Then it has to go to my manager who has to look it over and then to HR. Altogether it probably costs about $200 to process the receipts.
And you need the proof that expenses are legitimate if you are a government agency or a public firm, even a private firm is going to have to have details if they want to claim the expenses on their taxes.
Not according to the IRS. They allow a per diem rate (and it is much more than $20).
For New York City, the per diem rate is $303 lodging plus $71 food.
For Oklahoma City, where I am now, the per diem rate is $87 lodging and $66 food.
I would have to say that the lodging rate for Oklahoma City is lower than you are going to be able to find decent quality lodging in Oklahoma City. The overall average rate in Oklahoma City is $99, with three star rating average of $141 or more than double the IRS suggested per diem.
Contrast that to New York City, where the overall average rate is $221 and the three start average is $177. If I recall, the food in New York City is very pricey as well, although the IRS site only allows slightly more for the food in NYC than in OKC.
I guess if you are going to New York, get a per diem. If you are going to Oklahoma City, get a receipt.
And business plans are waaaay fucking cheaper then residential plans
Your business must be better at negotiation than the ones I have worked with. The last company had 300 employees and their plans cost them $100 per employee. No Data, No Texting. Limited to about 1200 minutes. They dropped that plan eventually and went to reimbursing as that was much cheaper. Then they dropped that and went to just not paying for employees phones at all, which was even cheaper. It should be noted that this company involved a lot of travel and cell phone was often the only means of contact with the employee.
Hydro surprises some people, but in the best case a dam starts outby destroying a large swath of habitat, then permanently disrupts fish migration and the ecosystems dependant on the waterway.
And then when you blow it up to appease the environmentalists, it destroys the ecosystem AGAIN.
So your logic is: These thing over here kill birds; therefore it doesn't matter that this other thing kills birds.
Existing Facility Type A Kills X birds. Proposed Facility Type B kills Y birds where Y < X. Facility Type B is proposed to replace Facility Type A.
Facility Type B is sh*tcanned because it kills greater than 0 birds. Existing Facility Type B continues normal operation, killing X birds.
Make sure your code does nothing gracefully.