Question for WB/IFC/IMF People

[Anonymous]

I travel often for the above and am put in fancy hotels. Had a thought that I could somehow book and pay for the hotels myself in advance, get receipts, then get a refund and stay in a cheaper place, in order to pocket the difference. Crazy, stupid, and criminal, or acceptable?

[Anonymous]

Stupid and reckless. I am sure this would be highly frowned upon. I say this as an employee at the IMF but it doesn't take an insider to know this is a bad idea.

Are you really that hard up for money? These places pay pretty well.

[Anonymous]

I am sure it would be fraud

[Anonymous]

if you prepay - at say hotels.com or the like, then you are asked to provide proof that you stayed at the hotel - a bill with incidentals will work as long as it shows the check-in or check -out date or if no incidentals you need to ask for a "receipt" at check out that shows the dates you checked in and out. travel claim will not get process without this.

[Anonymous]

Well, what you are proposing is illegal and unethical.

Moreover, you will be audited, found out, and fired.

The wages at the IFIs are good, and it is in order to avoid this kind of nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Pocketing the difference is fraud!!!!

[Anonymous]

Submitting receipts for expenses you did not actually incur is fraudulent and as such unethical.

Now, some employers do hotels (and even more commonly meals/incidentals) on a per-diem basis, and if you want to stay in a hostel and collect the difference, then there's no fraud.
Likewise, if you eat like a bird, you still receive the full meals/incidentals per-diem.

There's a big difference between allocating per diem as you see fit and submitting fraudulent receipts. One is OK and the other is, well, fraudulent.

[Anonymous]

Jesus, if I knew what department you were in I'd come kick your ass

[Anonymous]

I have to think troll because no one is this dumb. Right?

[Anonymous]

The only way this could work out and be ok is of you were given a per diem each day to be used for all expenses including hotel. They Yu would just pick a cheap hotel and keep what was let over.

[Anonymous]

When there were per diems, that is what could happen. Now no per diems for hotels.

[Anonymous]

Its fraud. Dont do it - unless you want to lose your job.

[Anonymous]

Do it- we need to shave off chaff right now- staff and consultants, I'm guessing you're likely the latter or a troll. With the upcoming cost reduction targets, in fact, only a moron would think like this and post here, unless they are really trying to provoke and malign the institutions for some other reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do it- we need to shave off chaff right now- staff and consultants, I'm guessing you're likely the latter or a troll. With the upcoming cost reduction targets, in fact, only a moron would think like this and post here, unless they are really trying to provoke and malign the institutions for some other reason.

+1

Seriously. Given the education requirements to even be allowed to fart in the vicinity of these firms, must be a troll

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have to think troll because no one is this dumb. Right?

+ 1.