When it comes to corporate policies about spending money and reimbursing employees, a lot of these companies don’t make a whole lotta sense!

That’s an understatement!

And this Reddit user had a pretty interesting story to tell about how they got a little bit of revenge on their employers after they wanted to pinch pennies.

Take a look!

Don’t want to reimburse me for bottled water?

“My company sends everyone to training every year & it’s usually for about a week. You’re put up in a nice hotel and your meals for dinner are reimbursed.

The hotel has breakfast in the morning and you have to eat there. Your lunch is covered by the training department & it’s usually a catering company.

For dinner it’s common to go out and spend a lot. I don’t know what the limit is, but some people have had an $80 dollar meal and it was covered.

I’m pretty simple & a sandwich would keep me happy.

Sure, no biggie.

I’ve been with my company for years, but my first time there, I woke up thirsty one night and wanted some bottled water and went to the hotel lobby and bought a couple bottles of water for about 2 bucks.

No big deal, it will be reimbursed or so I thought.

After I got back and turned in my receipts I got an email from some corporate lady a few days later saying that everything will be reimbursed except the bottled water.

Huh…?

Now maybe in the email context was lost, but I asked why the water wasn’t covered.

A simple answer explaining that “only if purchased with meal” would have sufficed, but this woman said that my room should be accommodating or something like that.

I don’t remember verbatim what the response was, but I took it as snarky & it seemed if she wanted me to drink from the sink.

It was malicious compliance time.

Fast forward a year later when I went for my annual training, the first night I went out I made sure to go to a nice steak house.

In that meal I ordered not one but 2 large glass bottles of water to take back with me to my room.

These bottles were about $17 a piece, but in the end I was reimbursed because it was “purchased with my meal.””

Here’s what folks had to say on Reddit.

This reader chimed in.

Another individual had a lot to say.

This Reddit user shared their thoughts.

Another Reddit user shared a story.

And this reader weighed in.

That’s what you get for being a cheapskate!

Can you imagine?

Thought that was satisfying? Check out what this employee did when their manager refused to pay for their time while they were traveling for business.