Comment on New image-generating AIs are being used for fake expense reports
Hackworth@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
The fact that workers with expense accounts still feel they’re getting paid so little that they deserve to commit fraud says something about that stratum of employee.
Pretty much anyone who travels has to submit receipts. Most people who travel are not making bank. They’re the people who set up and stand at convention booths, sales staff support, assistants, videographers, etc. Also, most travel is a miserable ordeal. I’m not saying it’s okay to commit fraud, but let’s not equate the hourly employee “re-creating” his lost lunch receipt with a 6-figure income.
snooggums@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
I used to be required to track all the receipts for travel years ago, and at some point like a decade ago the state figured out way more money was being spent on budgeting, reimbursing, and auditing each purchase individually than they would save by just doing a flat per diem rate for food and incidental expenses based on travel location.
I still keep my receipts long enough to make sure I'm not going over what I will be reimbursed, but shred them when I get home.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Yeah we recently switched to per diem for meals. Still have to keep receipts for hotels and vehicle rentals/gas etc but it’s nice not having to juggle 60 meal receipts.
fullsquare@awful.systems 2 weeks ago
in my country it used to be like this for 50 years, you get flat rate per day, counted up to fractions of day, separately for accomodation and food + everything else. you only have to keep transportation tickets