Sequence of Stupidity

• October 10th Robert given receipt for hotel booking on Robert's credit card with instructions to "keep it safe so you can use it to claim back the money later".
• Robert tosses the receipt onto desk on top of huge pile of papers.
• Receipt stays safe for a couple of weeks or so, drifting around the office.
• Robert notices the receipt just lying around and decides to address the problem by placing the receipt "somewhere safe".
• Receipt vanishes.

There's probably a moral to all this, but I'm darned if I know what it is...

Update on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 08:18PM by Rob

Ha. Found it. The document had got itself folded up with something else and I've now carefully copied the numbers onto an expenses claim form.....

Comments

[David Warrington]

The moral is "somewhere safe" is never somewhere safe

[CR]

What you should do is have a file and file those by date, if you do it with all your receipts its handy.

[Richard]

I find placing it inside a book I look at often, somewhere in the middle, or where I have not read to yet is a good method.