I had to do a work trip with the annoying boomer that is driving me insane. Whenever he tags along, he has to make the travel arrangements. The point being, so he can get the airline miles and the hotel points in his name.
So thanks to his brilliant scheduling, it took us 14 and a half hours to get from Utah to Texas. We had to take three flights, which should only take two. And every layover was like 10 minutes. It's so fucking obvious this asshole is maxing out the air miles, using the excuse it's cheaper. Which it is, if you don't get paid by the hour to travel.
He just called me up. "FYI, only change 8 hours"
"No. It's 8 straight and 6.5 OT"
"You can't charge that"
"You should have thought about that before you decided to have us waste all this time on pointless travel".
He then tells me that he isn't charging any of his hours. So 29 hours of billable time, he wants us to only charge for 8.
I cannot get this guy to understand that the head of operations for the company is going to have a conniption when he finds out about this.
And the insane thing, this is a warranty job. We aren't doing this for a customer. We are doing this for a supplier that fucked us over. It doesn't matter what we charge as long as we can justify it, which we obviously can.
"Brad, I don't care what you put on hours. But I cannot give away seven and a half hours. Ops is going to compare our hours with the flight times. This is insane"
"Okay. Put in ten."
I don't even understand why this guy came along other than wanting the air miles and hotel points.
For some insane reason, he decided that I only needed to check one bag.
"Where am I supposed to put my tools?"
"In your luggage" and he looks at me like I'm retarded.
So rather than us paying $50 for my second bag, we got hit with like a $200 overweight fee. He won't let this go and is implying I should eat the fee because it was my bag overweight.
I fucking hate sales guys. The next two weeks, this clown is going to be annoying the fuck out of me and getting in the way.
