I got an *email* reply from my corporate office (from a director!) when I sent in a detailed request for instructions on how to handle purchasing fuel for my personal vehicle that I was going to use on a business trip with the company AMEX card, then declare the IRS mileage as required by company policy on the expense report. (The accounting department just sent out an email blast that they would be paying the AMEX cards now instead of the cardholders.) Here is the reply:
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Are you saying that u will be reimbursed using miles x rate (available in concur) but any top up in fuel is at yr own exp since u will be reimbursed based on mileage?
U can use own card for petrol top up so that this trans wont come into concur. Alternatively if u use amex crop card, when trans appear on concur, file this as personal spend so co will not pay amex but u shd send payment directly to amex before due date.
Hope this is what u asked for
Rgds
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Clearly, texting shorthand [or a hybrid thereof] does not belong in a corporate email environment (and sometimes in a customer-facing environment!) There are several things in the reply that are open to interpretation and if mis-interpreted could result in delays in getting reimbursed or worse.
I think you should have a care (and perhaps an English lesson or two) when using this form of communication.
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