What’s the craziest thing you legitimately expensed? 🤑

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A refrigerator and the plumbing bill to connect it to a water line... when I was a manager, we worked in a double-wide in South Texas for 9 months with no air conditioner or kitchenette. Needed cool water and ice... got it approved after 3 rejections

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WOW

Steel toed boots to be able to talk to clients at a cargo handling operation....

Worked well for being able to access their facility, not so well for the expense trolls who couldn’t figure out what to do. Partner finally made them invent a new expense category in the system.,.

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Awesome story!

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Won’t answer to that Karen from Deloitte’s compliance

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Uber X

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Air BNB that I own

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Damn, you beat the IRS at their own game. Impressive.

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Oktoberfest "meals" with receipts written on napkins.

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Liquid meal !!!

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Ammunition for a team outing.

I already had the ammo, but it's not like I'm gonna let y'all shoot it without paying.

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Lunch

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Savage, sounds like EY

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Strippers

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Lol what? What was the former company?

Tickets to the NBA playoffs several years ago (different form than I work for now) and a rental car for a 500 mile road trip as a job well done for building a relationship from scratch with a new client. I would rather have had that than a deal bonus at that time in my life. Great memories.

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Weed

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1/3 of my monthly cell phone bill

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$500 in straight alcohol from a piano bar in Georgetown.

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Could be federal restriction

A hotel bill for an executive who chose to purchase the “romance” package in a Vegas hotel room.

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Not a high dollar amount, but wheel chalks, fire extinguisher, first aid kit, buggy whip, and magnetic vehicle warning strobe

Confused the expense team

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Guy wanted to hire me for job in Paris...

"You and your wife should go look around to be sure you'd like living there. Go for 4-5 days and expense it to me"

I did and because it was internal I didn't even book the time as vacation.

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Nespresso machine. LEGO sets.

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Steel tipped boots

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With you A3, those are standard fare in many industrial, manufacturing, or logistics companies. Props for getting hands-on though

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$500 in Marriott Gift Cards from a grocery store to earn Gas points. Then used at Marriott the next week. E&Y denied due to gift cards not being an allowable expense. Tough to explain to the offshore AP department. But finally got reimbursed after numerous calls. Never did it again.

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Crab dinner at a drag show

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