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To: Lane3 who wrote (10881)	4/26/2002 9:41:41 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

I used to write such things for a living. Tricky business, that. I was employed at a place that issued some new travel policies. Actually, it was a new list of non-covered business expenses. One in particular caught my attention. Full body massages were no longer covered as legitimate travel expenses. [Unfortunately, I never realized they were, darn]. I did have an occasion to call the office that wrote that new policy on some other matter and took the opportunity to ask about the new policy and said something along the lines..."Was it really necessary to specifically exclude full body massages by name?". The response went along these lines....There was this one guy in international marketing, that carefully reviewed the general guidelines for covered business expenses and was able to carefully word the justification so that it was a "legitimate" travel expense. At first, we disallowed it, but he whined and moaned. We perhaps made a mistake by consulting with the legal office. Lawyers being as inclined as they are towards picking at words, concluded that the traveler was correct; it was within the general guidelines and thus a reimbursable expense. So we issued a new policy and he was reimbursed for all prior body massages. Sigh.....if they were body massages. There's always someone looking for an angle. jttmab