California about to lose its AmEx card...
"...AmEx is carrying $10.4 million in unpaid charges on its books that were incurred by state workers and agencies since the new fiscal year began"
The way it works, apparently, is AmEx issues approved employees cards to be used for State related business (generally travel) - employee is responsible personally for paying the charges, and filing for reimbursement - which presumably ought to happen inside a payment cycle, right...
travel is of course generally required as part of the employee's job, though CA is cutting travel since there is no budget
this could get interesting
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You may or may not remember that we did a ScienceBlogs fundraiser last year for a group called "DonorsChoose" that provides small grants to teachers in poor school districts around the country.
As I alluded to in the previous post, many science bloggers like us are currently running challenges to readers to donate to proje
DonorsChoose, the educational charity we ran a fundraiser for last year, has made it to the final round of five in the American Express Members Project charity giveaway, and they're looking for vote
I'm a couple days late on this—PZ, as usual, was quicker on the draw—but the always-prescient Doonesbury name-checked DonorsChoose on September
And the employee's credit gets ruined when the government fails to reimburse them. Diabolical enough for you?