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TVs, Booze and Concerts: Strangest Things Business Travelers Put in Expense Reports

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Updated January 12, 2015 at 3:30 AM

Big-Screen TV: “We need it to watch for hurricanes.”

2nd Computer Monitor: “I have two eyes.”

$100 Beers: “Liquid to maintain life in the tropics.”

Mattress Pad: $25

The hotel room where this traveling employee was staying must have been really gross if he/she felt it necessary to go out and buy a brand new mattress pad. Maybe that’s why this request was rubber-stamped “Yes”: a rejection would have meant having to learn exactly what manner of foulness this employee encountered on the old mattress pad. And that’s just too icky to contemplate. Yuck! Related: “You Expensed McDonald’s?” How You Can Up Your Expense Account Game

Mattress Pad: $25

The hotel room where this traveling employee was staying must have been really gross if he/she felt it necessary to go out and buy a brand new mattress pad. Maybe that’s why this request was rubber-stamped “Yes”: a rejection would have meant having to learn exactly what manner of foulness this employee encountered on the old mattress pad. And that’s just too icky to contemplate. Yuck!

Related: “You Expensed McDonald’s?” How You Can Up Your Expense Account Game

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