Skype and/or whatever other video conferencing and the legalization of e-signatures should have killed business travel ages ago. Fuck having to pay for business trips and junkets in the price of things. Fuck businesses downsizing their wage employees but not giving up business trips. And fuck airplanes and airlines, too. (Hey, if it weren't for planes, that virus would have been stuck in Chinkfink land longer, maybe long enough for the rest of the world to see it was no big deal ... and imagine if that HAD been a Captain Trips/12 Monkeys level pandemic, with the planes still flying: https://www.flightradar24.com/38.47,-3.71/4)
Agree. Even as someone who for a long time was on the purchasing end of some big spending (free dinners can be fun with the right people), but most business travel was a total waste. Particularly the big multiple time a year conferences that consisted of a bunch of people talking about nothing. I used to have to spend 2 or 3 weeks a year at those type things, luckily my company realized a few years ago they should maybe cut down on expense and that was a stupid expense. I haven't had a business trip in four years and I don't miss it at all.
Skype and/or whatever other video conferencing and the legalization of e-signatures should have killed business travel ages ago. Fuck having to pay for business trips and junkets in the price of things. Fuck businesses downsizing their wage employees but not giving up business trips. And fuck airplanes and airlines, too. (Hey, if it weren't for planes, that virus would have been stuck in Chinkfink land longer, maybe long enough for the rest of the world to see it was no big deal ... and imagine if that HAD been a Captain Trips/12 Monkeys level pandemic, with the planes still flying: https://www.flightradar24.com/38.47,-3.71/4)
Agree. Even as someone who for a long time was on the purchasing end of some big spending (free dinners can be fun with the right people), but most business travel was a total waste. Particularly the big multiple time a year conferences that consisted of a bunch of people talking about nothing. I used to have to spend 2 or 3 weeks a year at those type things, luckily my company realized a few years ago they should maybe cut down on expense and that was a stupid expense. I haven't had a business trip in four years and I don't miss it at all.