If you follow any of the execs on social
media, most seem to post like it’s their personal travel blog- about where they stay, which Super Bowl seats they scored with their friends and what fancy meals they enjoyed on the company dime. Great going PEPSICO! Nice way to have double standards! SAD!!!
Traveling is terrible. The best job I ever had at Pepsi was working in a union warehouse in PA 80 hours a week.
I made 6 figures, loved the comrraderie and was home with my 4 kids often enough where I didn’t feel like I was missing anything. Also, I had no stress and only was paid for my time. Management jobs no matter how high look great until you get them. The pay isn’t much better than a typical union employee and when you do make 250+ you’re a bad year away from being gone.
From a distance traveling with PEP seems like a decent deal. Anyone who has traveled understands most of the nice meals are now paid for out of pocket. Yes I grab a banana to go from the hotel with a yogurt but most often times I use more than my daily allowance and just pay cash for anything over. Far better to be at home with my loved ones than get a small meal allowance and negligible hotel points that amount to more like $5 a day... Anyone thinking “execs” are blowing millions of dollars have never had to travel day in day out over the course of a few years. Not the gravy train it appears.
I don’t thibk many complaining grasp the concept of OUT OF POCKET. They exhaust their small allowance and then the balance is paid OUT OF POCKET directly to AmEx. Have none of you complaining ever done an expense report including travel???
Most executives get $60 a day for breakfast lunch and dinner + snacks while traveling . I am a supervisor who has had to travel a few times a year and it goes pretty quick. I went to a decent bar restaurant and had a steak and my meal was $54 without tip. I remember this because I thought execs had it made until I realized I still spent a lot of money out of pocket with tip and the other two meals. I hated living in a hotel for two days, I missed my daughters and getting the equivalent of around 8$ added to my Marriott point card was hardly worth the sacrifice of not saying good night to my little girls.
Nothing glamorous about Pepsi travel. My wife’s company is more near the industry average for travel and it was superior to Pepsi.
Like most traveling executives that like to blow as much of Pepsi’s money as they possibly can, they game T&E pretty well.
They get free breakfast at the hotel. Then they get someone from the site they are visiting to pay for lunch. Which is still at Pepsi’s expense, just not on their own Amex. That leaves the full daily allowance to be spent on dinnner. In the case of Dubai, that is $90. Even in an expensive city, that can buy a nice dinner.
it just pisses me off to see FB posts from all the Pepsi travelers and all the places they visit. You can't tell me that eating at the top floor restaurant in the tallest building in Dubai qualifies for under the daily meal allowance.
noblesse oblige
"Smart Spend" = Hypocrisy at its finest.
We can't even get office supplies ordered to do our jobs and it takes a Band 2 to approve a laptop docking station so that we can be more efficient. What a sick joke!!!