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Hotel Restrictions Not a Good Idea
State
Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:50 AM
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Being restricted to GSA-contracted hotels is a terrible idea. Travel is often to meetings, conferences, and other events taking place in a particular hotel. Staying at the event location is a huge advantage in terms of contact with the other attendees, being able to attend all functions, avoiding local travel costs, etc. If the event hotel is not contract-approved, yet would honor government per diem rates - what's the difference to the government? The traveller gets quite the sizable advantage of staying at the flagship location and the the government doesn't overpay. This proposal is one more unnecessary bureaucratic rule.
Federal travelers
Employment Services Admin., OWCP
Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:07 AM
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That's great! Next well have to eat where they tell us, and what we can eat! I recently stayed at a much nicer hotel and the one set up for me by the government. It was only $10 more, but in a much nicer part of town, with restaurants, shops, etc. all within walking distance. Had I stayed where they set me up, I would have either had to use public transportation and a cab to get about.
Mileage
USIBWC
Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:31 AM
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When will someone look at the mileage rate allowed for Permanent Change of Station? The present rate of $0.15 per mile didn't even cover the cost of gasoline for either vehicle when I was recently transferred.
Hotels
DOC
Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:00 AM
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Many of the functions I attend are at a particular hotel. If this is mandated we would probably required to justify why we need to stay at a non approved hotel. What we don't need in the government is more documentation. If I could only do my job and nothing but my job....
Mileage
IRS
Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:02 AM
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This entire area and the handling of this issue by GSA is terrible. The IRS annouced the increase to the mileage rate in late October 2007, effective January 1, 2008. GSA, however, ignored repeated requests to make an appropriate adjustment to increase the reimbursement rate until March 19, 2008. To make federal employees subsidize part of the governments' travel costs is not only unfair but it is unethical, a term government executives apparrently still do not grasp. In protest, government employees that use their POA's should request a GSA car be provided or use a cab etc. rather than use their own automobiles. Perhaps then GSA executive Lurita Doan would get it when it hits her agency's pocketbook. The only term to describe this is DISPICTABLE!!!
New GSA Reg Proposals
USDA
Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:39 AM
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This will be a nightmare. Who cares if we get the government rate for rooms? Many small towns I travel to don't have anything on the list. the ones listed are not very desireable, or in some cases are very distant from our offices. That makes communiting more expensive to the taxpayer. I have tried to use Fedrooms in the past and can never get a room in WDC that isn't 25 miles from the South building. Fedtraveler is a nightmare too. All these programs are not easy to use, expensive to maintain and don't work for the employee.
Hotels
DOD
Tue Mar 18, 2008 6:24 AM
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All of the hotels I've stayed at for the govt rate give you the worst rooms possible. I was in San Francisco & the room they gave me at the hotel that was within PD wasn't big enough for the bed and a dresser, and was located on a noisy, busy street. I asked to be moved, and was put in a room that was bigger, but the wind blew through the windows so much that I had to stuff toilet paper around the windows to keep the cold air out. Plus many hotels charge more for government rate than AAA or AARP, or even standard rates.