This is one of the reasons that "reasonable corporate policy" is so hard. Some people really don't want to be away, but will if necessary but feel they're already giving up a lot. You sound a bit in that camp. I've mostly enjoyed business travel, and try to take advantage of it to see places or people I don't get to see otherwise, and a business can IMHO reasonably take account of the fact that people like me exist, too. In fact, if they can reasonably send me instead of you, it sounds like it might be a win for everybody. And to get *me* to go they don't have to offer as much :-). But trying to sort people out that way and expecting them to be consistent is hard, too, and leaves lots of room for gaming the system.
Well, there are times I enjoy travel, but I would be enjoying the travel vastly more if I was going with my family, or going to do stuff for me, specifically. You want to get me out of my comfortable shell, you pay for it.
(The REAL cost to you will be the hotel, because I won't stay in low-rent hotels; allergens, discomfort, etc., and after a night in them I'll want to kill all of the so-called clients I'm supposed to meet with. Been there, done that once too often.)
I also answered the transportation ones in a "general" sense as opposed to a "me specifically" sense, since to get me on a transit train you'd need to put a gun to my head. Other kinds of trains, I dunno, never been on one.
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Date: 2009-05-11 04:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-11 05:37 pm (UTC)(The REAL cost to you will be the hotel, because I won't stay in low-rent hotels; allergens, discomfort, etc., and after a night in them I'll want to kill all of the so-called clients I'm supposed to meet with. Been there, done that once too often.)
I also answered the transportation ones in a "general" sense as opposed to a "me specifically" sense, since to get me on a transit train you'd need to put a gun to my head. Other kinds of trains, I dunno, never been on one.