Looking to start “playing the system at PwC” I’ve expensed/booking by the books and just figured out my team are buying extra/expensing BS to get more rewards. Teach me the ways of consulting - Go

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Order room service instead of seamless when working from the hotel. The points will add to your base number and follow through all the multipliers (4x platinum, 3x SPG card, hotel-negotiated bonus). One dinner ends up being 2-700 points depending on how many different multipliers you have.

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PwC 4 - while PwC may not ask for your folio, sometimes clients do. Let me know how it goes when you're on a nightmarish client that has their procurement team combing through each and every line of each and every receipt and folio and they find those drinks. "Charging for whatever you want within reason" is NOT our policy, and that is terrible advice.

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Yeah, don't do that. Your team sounds unethical.

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I'm 100% against you trying to play the system. Don't do it; you will get burned, and you will hurt our firm's name.

That being said, you don't have to do anything shady to take friday off. If you have billed more than 40 hours that week, you can just leave the day blank and "flex" it. That's stated policy, not gaming the system.

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Thanks d1 I’m not trying to be unethical, agreed there. However waiting for people to leave until 9 or 10 because I didn’t rent a car to save money is getting exhausting. While I figure out every single person on my team has a car now that they’re all staying st the same hotel. Also they each go get Starbucks and do that card truck daily. And they don’t book pto when they bail on Friday’s, they just prorate the week. So I’m lookin to just ease my shitty project

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Nice try hr

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Pwc5 has to be trolling. No way anyone would take out a loan just to pretend it was a student loan and abuse the system. I refuse to believe we hire people this stupid.

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OP you are quite dumb if you have to ask these questions on a public forum 🤦‍♂️

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Lunch is always a personal expense???

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P5 - You lie on Well being Rewards? Really? Is it that hard to watch a benefits video, take a walk or a bike ride, talk to a partner about your career, or go to the fucking doctor? Jesus Christ.

OP, I suggest you go find the expense policy and read it. That way you will know what you can and cannot do, in case you are ever audited. Better to know the limits, and operate within them, than to not know them, accidentally operate outside of them and owe the firm money (or worst case, be terminated).

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Screwing your company is a bad idea no matter what age you are

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Yea. This is actual, stated policy. We used to call it "flex fridays" and it was only available between memorial and labor days. Two years ago they decided to just make it permanent.

You just have to make sure you clear 40 hours a week. Then you can take a day off and just leave the time slot empty on t&e. I do this semi-regularly.

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M2 that's the policy alright. But let's collectively agree that this policy is bullshit

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P2... hope so. I also hope people remember that abusing or exploiting perks and benefits is the way we lose them.

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Then leave P5.

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PwC doesn’t pay for lunch when traveling? I’ve never heard of a firm restricting lunch. Even the US Government paid for lunch when traveling

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Spend more of your energy on building your skills. That will pay off a lot more than optimizing perks here/there and potentially skirting the grey areas. With all that head-space you free up by not trying to squeeze every penny, put it towards your own career and competency development. I guarantee you that has a better NPV for your time and energy spent.

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WTF

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Ow1 okay thanks, room service every night now haha

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Only at PwC

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