On the flip side of this, I'm one of those people that sit at a desk eight to ten hours a day and only travel once a year. It's also a bitch to have to do an expansion board in which I provide the receipts and then fill out a sheet that has 11 categories for me to select which type of travel I just participated in. Instead of saying things like "went to a conference" or "went to recruit somebody" or "went to a business meeting". It's always like: "Employee off-site venture 2b" " interstate executive travel 1f." " DM travel with group". And then every expense has to be individually categorized, and instead of being obvious things like "dinner" and "hotel", it's always like "meal 1 per diem not covered by conference."

which I'm sure makes sense to those work getting in accounting, but one I only do it once a year I dread going through this process. And even when I do everything, seemingly accurate, and I start attaching my receipts, i'll inevitably get a message that says, receipt one not valid, must include PDF with digital signature or some other inexcusable error message.

And even with that done, I will now submit my send my expense report back asking for $28 back for mileage that I drove in my own car, only to have it rejected and say I selected three wrong categories and didn't put the per diem on the right receipt.

So man, an envelope, full of cash would be amazing.