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- From: berry@athos.pei.com (Berry Kercheval)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
- Subject: Re: HOTEL COSTS (Was Re: UNIX SECURITY ...)
- Message-ID: <BERRY.92Aug25102556@athos.pei.com>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 15:25:56 GMT
- References: <1176@usenix.ORG> <709@trwacs.fp.trw.com> <3426@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- <1992Aug25.145110.16272@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
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- Organization: Protocol Engines, Inc., Mt. View, California
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- In-Reply-To: paw@coos.dartmouth.edu's message of 25 Aug 92 14:51:10 GMT
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- >>>>> On 25 Aug 92 14:51:10 GMT, paw@coos.dartmouth.edu (Pat Wilson) said:
- >In article <709@trwacs.fp.trw.com>, epstein@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Jeremy Epstein) writes:
- >|> All this is true...however...I get a per diem rate of $78 for hotels
- >|> in Baltimore (this is true of many others, I know).
-
- Pat> Might I suggest that you look, then, for a room to share with someone
- Pat> else? The incremental cost of a double vs. a single usually puts it
- Pat> within reach of most gov't limits.
-
- Some government entities may not be able to deal with this, though.
-
- Another alternative (that I previously mentioned to Jeremy in e-mail)
- is that Federal travel rules have a loophoole here. IF you are
- attending a conference AND you stay in the conference hotel THEN you
- can get a waiver of the per diem limit. If you don't stay in the
- conference hotel or you are on some other kind of business (visiting a
- contractor, field work, whatever) then no dice.
-
- I did this several times when I was working for Lawrence Livermore
- National Laboratory. Federal employees, check with your travel office
- to see if this "loophole" still applies. Make them look it up; don't
- just let them say 'no'; they may not want to go to the effort. (We
- had a wizardess for a travel officer in my department, which is how I
- found out about it...)
-
- --berry
-
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- Berry Kercheval :: berry@pei.com :: Protocol Engines, Inc. Mt. View, CA
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