re: Have you ever skimped on a work trip and just used the time as vacation?

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I'll definitely skip sessions and cut out early

But I wouldn't entirely skip a seminar, especially if I scheduled it on the company dime

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This.

I also always tried to arrange travel to have an extra evening free before or after.

If I'm going somewhere fun, I want to enjoy some of it at least. Even if it's not somewhere fun I'll make the best of it.

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Have you ever skimped on a work trip and just used the time as vacation?

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I’ve never skimped, but I most certainly took advantage of transportation.

Never would stay an extra day, but I fulfilled all of my obligations and had no problems playing tourist on my spare time.

Have to go to Chicago regularly and the meeting let out early so I spend the day at the Fields museum.

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I always plan to see some shite if I get out early on the last day. Like one time I Drove to Stone Mountain after an IBM Class in Atlanta a few years ago.
Another Time I drove up Door County Wisconsin for a few hours and came back late that night. Was really cool part of the country I'd otherwise never see if not for work. And companies don't mind the extra $20 you were comped for mileage or spent in rental.

And it's another thing to get approval to bring a spouse on a work trip. You enjoy the evenings together and then stay a few extra days over the weekend at your own expense.
The result is one of the flights was "free". That's usually win-win for you and the company as you're happy and it cost them nothing extra.

That's not the same as the OP's lying arse.

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The girl who signed my name for me on the lab sign in sheet did a flawless job disguising her handwriting.

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I’ll absolutely skip out on an afternoon or two if the sessions aren’t very applicable. Done some real good networking and business development over a long lunch or early start to happy hour. The company benefited from that as much, if not more than my attendance in a session.

That said, never skip entire days, much less an entire conference. That is just asking for trouble.

I have done it before. I just made sure to be seen with anyone that knows my bosses and have a chat with each of them. Nowadays they make us present what we learned to the other people in our department so it’s nearly impossible.

Last year, I scheduled some training of Orange County Fire Auth. personnel to coincide with:
- Fresno State at UCLA (Rose Bowl) on a Saturday evening
- Washington State at Southern Cal (L.A. Memorial Coliseum) on the following Friday evening.

That last one was approx. the 64th stadium I have watched a college football game in. I did do some work in OC and L.A. on the Tuesday-Friday between the games.

Just over a year and a half earlier, I scheduled an Anaheim FD training trip to occur a couple days after the 2017 Rose Bowl (Southern Cal vs. Penn State), which ended up being the highest scoring RB of all time, until a year later, UGA vs. OU.

I have been able to plan football around trips (and often, work trips around football) quite a bit:
- Air Force at Navy (Annapolis)
- VT at GT (Atlanta)
- LSU at UGA (Athens)
- East Carolina at Tulane (Superdome)
- UL-L at North Texas (Denton)
- Houston at SMU (Dallas)
- Arizona at Arizona State (Tempe)

If its AMA then yes. Go on day one and talk about how your region is having a crisis with production etc. Skip days 2 and 3. Return on day 4. I do that every year. They dont tell on you.