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You guys probably have a policy. We can bill for any costs incremental to what it would take to get to our office normally. Is $500 also what it would take to get to your local office? If so you're out of luck.
I just read back further, if you can drive & park for the same price as going to your home office then you don't have a case. It's your choice to take a more expensive method of transport (the train in this case).
What city? And what would be the cost if you had to work from the Accenture office everyday? Perhaps you can make an argument for billing through the difference, but $500 monthly sounds unreasonably high. That's what I spend in 3 months commuting locally if I'm splurging...
@OP Based in what you said above, drive into your client for the same amount of gas, then expense the parking.
@P2 But only expense mileage further than your home office... In OP's case that is zero.
So the 500 is just the tolls? That you should be able to expense. I'm still not seeing how a rank of gas a week is adding up to 500
Just got a response from project MD! I can expense the train ride. Apparently, the manager didn't know that so he's also been coming out of pocket about $200 every month.
$500 monthly!? Are you taking 20 minute Uber black rides to and from daily??
I take it your home office is also in the suburbs and you would pay no bridges/tolls? Policy on this is very clear so I feel like we are missing part of the story...
@OP If difference is $200/month, not sure why you'd expect them to give you $500 just because you prefer the train.
You can expense the difference between what it costs to get to your home office and what you spend now.
PWC1- Bridges, tolls and parking would probably equal around the same. And id rather not drive into the city.
On my last project they let us expense mileage from wherever we were
This is unreasonable and I would ask (in this order) 1) reimbursement 2) roll off. 38 miles is also really far, I know people who have been able to swing hotels for less miles after they've proved they're critical to the project
@OP So what was the reason your manager gave for saying no? This really doesn't add up to me.
I had this on my last project and was told I could be reimbursed for the difference in cost, distance didn't come into it.
@A2 OP says that driving to client incurs tolls and parking where driving to office does not.
Also, depends on client. Some projects may not have an issue passing that cost on. Others may.
At Deloitte and Accenture, if the mileage/cost to get to my local client was more than the mileage/cost to get to my home office, then I sent in expenses for reimbursement. I've never had anyone even mention them let alone not approve them.
If the situation is unclear, talk to your project lead. Most are understanding and will probably let you expense some of the costs.