So, my role is WFH and I never travel. Like probably less than 3% of people in my industry, tech job, ever travel for the company... you just do your tech nerd job from home.

But I had to travel for dealing with vendors. Company paid for hotel, flights, Ubers, food, etc. THIS sounds typical to me. What's not typical is my leadership requested that I actually consider ALL hours (from leaving my home, to getting back home, AKA like 72+ hours) as complete overtime to my next paycheck as well. Did the math and it will be damn near $10k gross overtime. Is this normal??? If so, I am envious of anyone who regularly travels, like WTF.

UPDATE:

My boss (who is beneath my director) came in to correct, and insist upon a mid-way compromise. Overtime pay for the actual travel (Ubers/flight), office time, and dinner times, nothing else. So went from what I thought would be ~63 hours, down to 27. Still more than I initially expected, so I'm happy. It did seem too good to be true lol.

It is not normal to get paid to sleep
It is normal to get paid during the travel itself and when you are working
It is not normal for hourly people to travel though. The majority of people who travel are salary or commission based
Example.. Say you have a employee on a 1 week trip. 1 week has 168 hours. 168 hours of overtime would not be productive way to spend money for most businesses

Almost everyone who travels is on salary. I used to live out of a suitcase when I was in M&A and it was still pretty sweet having zero car/meal expenses.

My boss (who is beneath my director) came in to correct, and insist upon a mid-way compromise. Overtime pay for the actual travel (Ubers/flight), office time, and dinner times, nothing else. So went from what I thought would be ~63 hours, down to 27. Still more than I initially expected, so I'm happy. It did seem too good to be true lol.

thats funny you say that OP because my role is WFH and I never travel. Like probably less than 3% of people in my industry, tech job, ever travel for the company... you just do your tech nerd job from home.

But I had to travel for dealing with vendors. Company paid for hotel, flights, Ubers, food, etc. THIS sounds typical to me. What's not typical is my leadership requested that I actually consider ALL hours (from leaving my home, to getting back home, AKA like 72+ hours) as complete overtime to my next paycheck as well. Did the math and it will be damn near $10k gross overtime. Is this normal??? If so, I am envious of anyone who regularly travels, like WTF.

UPDATE:

My boss (who is beneath my director) came in to correct, and insist upon a mid-way compromise. Overtime pay for the actual travel (Ubers/flight), office time, and dinner times, nothing else. So went from what I thought would be ~63 hours, down to 27. Still more than I initially expected, so I'm happy. It did seem too good to be true lol.

No it is not.

It's really not uncommon for them to consider the travel time to be on your own time. Even salaried people will usually travel in the evenings after work hours. Granted they aren't eligible for overtime anyway, but the point is you still work your normal expected hours and aren't compensated for the travel itself.

i never travel on my own time.


only retards do

Well I guess ph*gs must not in that case

Nope if you're expected to be in the office for a week for work you don't fly in on Monday during the day and out on Friday during the day. You're expected to be there during the week. You fly in Sunday night so you can be there Monday morning for whatever is happening and you leave Friday evening after the day is over.

You don't get extra days off the following week when work resumes to account for the time traveling. Most of you clearly don't travel worth a sh*t. Yes there are instances where you can travel during the workday if it makes sense to do so but it's never treated as something that is considered work time. The best case scenario you get is being fortunate enough to have them overlap but don't confuse that for companies considering travel time to equal work time. That's wrong. If there's ever a full week long event or if there's important meetings you need to attend virtually the day before you fly in for something you're absolutely expected to still be working those days and book your flights in evenings accordingly.

You retards are going to get fired if you just start booking flights middle of the day if you're asked to travel without checking if it's ok to miss what you'll be missing by doing so.

What's actually happening is none of you are important enough for it to matter if the travel time occurs during the work day lmao