instead of the cardholder doing all the purchasing the card ends up getting passed around against all regulations.

Oh yeah -- we have a pdf of a photocopy of the card we all use! I don't see why they don't issue more cards. That would make tracking down receipts easier, I would think. Instead we get these 50-person department emails asking about individual charges.

That is ridic, Jesse.

That's a whole lot of silliness right there. And not the fun kind.

Am I crazy that individual cards would be easier in a lot of ways?

They are probably worried about the 'moral hazard' of giving folks a credit card they are free to use for work. Which is stupid, but then I think most 'moral hazard' arguments are stupid.

The assumption that your employees inherently can't be trusted.

i'm so glad for the good news about -t's coworker's son and about your friend, amyth.

Am I crazy that individual cards would be easier in a lot of ways?

Nope.

They are probably worried about the 'moral hazard' of giving folks a credit card they are free to use for work.

It's not like they'll pay the bills no questions asked, you still have to justify your expenses. At least, that's how it should work.

We just ask the office manager for the company card number or a blank check when something needs to be bought, but given that our total number of employees barely cracks two digits it's not that big a hardship to have purchases go through one person since she's the one who tracks and reconciles expenses anyway.

My god, why is it only Wednesday?

But at least I was able to salvage the potential horror of a backup process failing to actually backup important data and lying to my face by creating the folders where that data should have gone. I now know you can access the folders that are saved in computer restore points and extract the information. And the nice man forgave me for temporarily losing three years of his company's data and a half-million-dollar project for a new client.