[drewg123]

Tell her to look at the travel system. At least when I was there a decade ago, they gameified it so that we needed to come in below the average cost for a flight, otherwise we needed VP approval. But if we came in under the average, you could bank the savings and use it to upgrade to first class, etc.

This sounds great on paper: incentivizing employees to reduce travel costs and rewarding them for it! But in reality, you'd have engineers payed substantial fractions of a million dollars in total comp wasting hours booking travel, hoping to bank savings to use on later upgrades.

[refulgentis]

Travels been in VP-approval land since late 2022. Very different place - 2016-2023 here. You can always just have concur do it, and it's pretty streamlined and integrated with flights