So by giving credit cards to staff...
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morninggirl5
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Yeah, it's one of the perks of the job in WAY too many positions in this country. You're a nobody until you're high enough on the totem pole to have a corporate credit card. Then you get to take your buds out to lunch or dinner (or a strip club if you're really bold), charge it to your corporate credit card and show off how important you are.
Oh, the government does it too? Well, they need that piece of plastic to validate their worth too.
Oh, the government does it too? Well, they need that piece of plastic to validate their worth too.
p_p_man
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The Hong Kong Chinese...
...a different way of showing status.
The more pens a person has crammed into his shirt pocket the lower down the pecking order he is. The higher he climbs the less neccessity there is to show the world that he is a hard working individual who is striving for the top.
When a person displays no pens, he's reached the top. Other people do all the hard work.
Now pens I can understand. But credit cards?
Is this just another way of stimulating the economy? Or has someone made the wrong decision somewhere and now they've found out the amount of fraud which is going on are too frightened to own up.
Mind you it's going to be damned difficult to call all the credit cards back in. People won't like that...no siree!
...a different way of showing status.
The more pens a person has crammed into his shirt pocket the lower down the pecking order he is. The higher he climbs the less neccessity there is to show the world that he is a hard working individual who is striving for the top.
When a person displays no pens, he's reached the top. Other people do all the hard work.
Now pens I can understand. But credit cards?
Is this just another way of stimulating the economy? Or has someone made the wrong decision somewhere and now they've found out the amount of fraud which is going on are too frightened to own up.
Mind you it's going to be damned difficult to call all the credit cards back in. People won't like that...no siree!
morninggirl5
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Actually, it's one of those "everybody else is doing it, so it must be ok" situations.
You know the ones where what's happening is clearly wrong, but since it's so rampant, nobody does anything to stop it.
You know the ones where what's happening is clearly wrong, but since it's so rampant, nobody does anything to stop it.
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Actually...
in my former life, I was an Administrative Assistant or Secretary (I'm not ashamed to be called that) and I had access to a "corporate credit card", not exactly a position high up on the pecking order.
I used it for three reasons...
1. To pay for catered luncheons and breakfasts for staff, (a waste of money if you ask me...don't people eat breakfast at home anymore? and since when does somebody NOT need a break for an hour during the workday to refresh?...my humble opinion, I hate "working lunches")
2. Office supplies that couldn't wait until the next shipment.
3. Business travel.
in my former life, I was an Administrative Assistant or Secretary (I'm not ashamed to be called that) and I had access to a "corporate credit card", not exactly a position high up on the pecking order.
I used it for three reasons...
1. To pay for catered luncheons and breakfasts for staff, (a waste of money if you ask me...don't people eat breakfast at home anymore? and since when does somebody NOT need a break for an hour during the workday to refresh?...my humble opinion, I hate "working lunches")
2. Office supplies that couldn't wait until the next shipment.
3. Business travel.
