Shopping Spree on Company Credit Card ?

[Gremle]

Ok so I know I’m partly unreasonable, but I am being totally U ?!

Ive resigned and leave in a week. I have already had my final pay.
For years my horrendous line manager wouldn’t sign off legitimate expenses to the point I no longer submitted them as she loved the power play (a whole other thread !).

So for about 5 years I have been paying for all my own stationery, batteries, toners, things like that. I wfh so no stationery cupboard to raid on the last day - I’m thinking of replacing all the things I’ve used and brought myself with my company credit card now before I hand it over.

They won’t know about it for at least a month, possibly longer. And even then it will just be legitimate expenses, not like a holiday or anything 😂

Someone tell me to do it …

Don't do it (I know you won't)

Leave with your head held high, and never burn your bridges.

But congratulations on getting out of there! 💐

I would but I would also put it in writing to them

Wow, no don't do this. They will know sooner than a month and you will have no justification for it. So it would be theft. You would be expected to pay it back or get a visit from police (or both)

That would be theft. Don't do it unless you want a criminal record. Move on, forget about it.

Can't you just put in an expenses sheet, send to your LM and cc HR / their boss (whoever is appropriate in your company) saying you expect this to be paid before you leave?

No, not worth the aggravation. If she’s refused to sign off valid expenses for the last five years, then you can’t really be said to have had a legitimate expectation that these would be signed off either. The time to do this was five years ago, when she first started messing about.

I have no idea where you’d stand legally, whether it would be enough to constitute theft or not, but I do know that it’s a load of grief that you really don’t need when you’re trying to concentrate on learning a new job. If you want revenge, then work really hard, get yourself promoted, earn more than her and feel very smug & happy that you’ve escaped and are a good enough manager that you don’t need to resort to stupid games.

I don't understand why you weren't buying these things on the company card in the first place, if that's a possibility?

No reason not to put legitimate expenses on it now, and submit the required paperwork before you leave.

I would send the receipts for things you’ve paid for and emails sent with them that weren’t authorised to higher up and request irs paid within 14 days

Well we would take legal action against somebody who did that at our place. So I really wouldn’t.

I know you’re kidding, because that would be an awful idea.

Don't be ridiculous

Sounds like a great idea.......💸🚓

If you are still working this week, I would just get a toner cartridge, there’s no way they can tell if you ran out this week. Small one off purchase may not cause suspicion, but multiple purchases probably would and you may feel slightly better for doing so. I do think though you should’ve pushed for your expenses to be paid earlier or used company card for these purchases.

The time to pursue the expenses was when you were still there. I’m sure your manager has a manager too and the appropriate thing to do was to escalate at the time. If you didn’t want to do it, it was the choice you made for yourself.

What you’re considering is not only passive aggressive, it’s likely also theft.

When I got divorced there was ONE particular thing that I knew I had 50% rights to, I also knew it would really piss exH off if I insisted on it as he considered it "his".

Insisting on it would have prolonged the process and kept me tied into him for a longer period.

I opted for a VERY clean break and no need to have contact, apart from over the dc.

This is like a divorce. Go for a clean break, take the loss and get your life back would be my advice - you do not want to be dealing with email exchanges from them in the future.

@Gremle You could do an "exit email" and inform your rotten boss's boss that she refused to sign off legitimate expenses - and that this can be verified by checking with accounts - and that this is likely to be an issue going forward with new employees.

No don’t do this unless you want the police on your doorstep.

I love this reply - thanks Rotten 😊

Of course I’m not going to do this - if I was I would have done it already !

And yes, I did escalate it to boss’ boss at the time - the board are made up of volunteers, the chair of which was astonished that I was even submitting expenses ‘especially when they do their job voluntarily’ 🙈

I would have stopped buying stuff a long time ago. When they asked why a document wasn’t ready I would have said there’s no ink. If you kept receipts for things then you can remove the items you bought with no come back

Can you just not have things “fall” into your bag on the way out 😂😂😂 I’d be petty and steal toilet roll and feel well satisfied i had stooped to such levels.

If it's AMEX the responsibility will be joint and if the company can prove it was malicious then AMEX will chase you. Any other provider then your company will come after you. Walk away and just breathe in the freedom!

If you had the company credit card all along why weren't you using this to buy supplies instead of buying them yourself? Am i missing something?

Why didn’t you use the company CC to buy that stuff in the first place?

TOTALLY unreasonable to do it now, after the fact.

is it not possible to just document all your legitimate expenses with receiots and your claims over the years that have never been approved and submit the lot to the small claims court (forget what it is called nowadays)? That is what it is there for.

No, it'll go against you.
If you need a reference in the future etc.
Have some pride in yourself, and don't leave with an excuse for your manager to talk bad about you.