The $600 Reimbursement Fight
Language: en
The client dinner cost eight hundred dollars, but the company only approved a two-hundred-dollar reimbursement. "What about the other six hundred?" I asked. Brenda from accounting tossed my expense report back across her desk like a piece of garbage. She did not even bother to look up from her phone. "What do you mean? You cover it yourself." My brain buzzed as if a live wire had snapped inside my skull. I stood frozen on the cheap carpet. "This was a mandatory business dinner. Why on earth am I paying for it out of my own pocket?" Brenda shot me a dirty look, clearly annoyed that I was…