For the über-Road Warriors - those who spend their lives on the road

Many combine business with pleasure.  As long as you don't include the expenses you incur while on your pleasure time and declare it as reimbursable expense then it should be okay. 

People have different ways of relaxing while on a business trip. Some people go sightseeing whereas others use the time to "meet" people.

Up For Anything and his colleagues chose to use their relaxation time to go to Tootsies (a honky tonk bar) while on a business trip in Nashville. Afterwhich, they watched a Hockey Game.

I, on the other hand, sometimes turn my trip into a mini-vacation.

And then you have the workaholics who insist on working every single waking moment. 

But nothing (even after years of exposure) surprises me more than these...  a different breed of business travellers.   They are those who unabashedly declare obviously non-business related expenses as reimbursable.  Or those who are crafty with scheduling their business trips and fit it with their personal needs.

Here are some examples of how some business travellers are...

• Someone recently scheduled a business meeting in Switzerland.  The trip cost the company round trip plane tickets, hotel accommodation and some miscellaneous purchases.  All that for a meeting that lasted for only an hour.  The story gets even better.  This one hour meeting was scheduled on a Thursday. Afterwhich, said person stayed in the country until Sunday to go skiing.
  
• 3 years ago, someone declared his "blue movie" expense for the night.  When asked by the accounting department, he said it should be reimbursable because it falls under the category "entertainment".
  
• Someone went on a business trip to some exotic country. He stayed there for 4 days to "look for possible partners", he said.  Conveniently forgetting that we already had a partner located in the same country.  Oh yea, he showed pictures of nice places he visited, as well.

So... which kind of business traveller are you?!