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1. joshstrange · 1789559085 · focus · HN ↗

   The craziest part of this story, for me, is it was on the dad’s _company_ credit card. Which might not be as surprising except the reason it was already on file is because the dad used his company’s (not _his_ company, the company he works for as an employee) credit card to buy Roblox for his son previously.

   Is this common? I’ve had access to company credit cards before on a one-off basis (never in my name). Do people legitimately make this mistake? “oops, I put it on the company cards”?

   1. chasd00 · 1789560507 · focus · HN ↗

      > Do people legitimately make this mistake? “oops, I put it on the company cards”?

      i've done this with like a cup of coffee but not something like a game for my kids! What happens in my case is the charge is not approved for reimbursement and it's up to me to pay the bill. I feel bad for that father.

      edit: it's a corporate card but it's in my name so I can actually charge whatever i want but the company only reimburses approved charges, whatever is left over is up to me to pay. As a sibling comment said, what everyone does is use their regular personal cards for the rewards/loyalty points and then submit receipts for reimbursement manually. In consulting where you travel a lot this can be thousands per month in rewards.

      1. ghaff · 1789562324 · focus · HN ↗

         That was always my situation. Many of us didn't actually like to use corporate cards because we got a few percent back on our personal cards on probably tens of thousands of dollars of reimbursable travel expenses per year. Credit limits weren't really an issue--the banks didn't care as long as they got paid and we had high credit limits if we were spending that much. As far as I was concerned, corporate cards were basically a headache that cost me money.

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