I generally enjoy my job and supervisors. But recently learned that I'll have to drive to a city in our state for a 3 day work trip.
Not that big of a deal, but clearly no one making these decisions took the time to consider factors that someone who makes a lot less money has to consider.
I get paid milage but only the drive to the city from where i live, no milage from hotel to class, and reimbursement per diem for food.
Problem is this is all reimbursed on the next check. And all of this takes place in end of the two week period right before I get paid again. Where I will then have to wait another two weeks to see that reimbursed milage and per diem.
Even on a safe estimate of me being as strict as possible with food prices. I've calculated atleast around 200 bucks I have to spend and wait until they reimburse me. That's about 15 percent of my take home pay for two weeks. Possibly 20 if I spend more money on gas and food than anticipating.
Imagine if you told your boss/some executive who makes 150k a year which Approx equals to 4k for a two week period in take home pay. That they had to spend 750-1000 dollars on a work trip where they won't get reimbursed for multiple weeks. They would flip shit. But if you get paid a lot lower, somehow it's standard and fine. I often feel lucky with my job and then something like this comes along and puts it in perspective.
Me having to pay almost 20 percent of my take home pay in a two week period for a work trip they are requiring me to go to is ridiculous. They should give me my per diem and a gas card. Or atleast pay me an approximation of what it should be and clear the difference later. When I'm already struggling to budget myself it effectively makes my next two weeks boring as hell. No money to do anything I like as hobbies until they decide they should pay me.