My girlfriend recently started a new job and they added her to the company credit card. About a week ago she checked her credit score and noticed it had dropped by about 40 points because the outstanding balance on the company credit card was now being reported on her personal credit score.
When she asked HR about this they told her that American Express requires all authorized users to be personally tied to the card to be able to use it. I have never heard of anything like this and I think it’s absurd for someone to be required to tie their personal credit to something work-related like this.
She was also never even notified that this was going to happen when she started working there, which makes me think they just signed her up for this using her SSN and personal information without her permission which I’m pretty sure is illegal.
Has anyone ever heard of anything like this? I always thought that employees could use company credit cards without having to be personally tied to it.