• learn2swim@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago
    • Sir, you can’t leave without paying for that donut.
    • But I just paid for it! Here’s the receipt.

    And that’s why you need a receipt for a donut.

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      5 hours ago

      I had a friend who liked to sulk around in a trench coat. He bought a grocery store donut and promptly tossed the receipt.

      He was soon stopped by grocery security for theft. After some hassle they tracked down his receipt and let him go, but yeah that’s what donut receipts are for.

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    8 hours ago

    The actual answer is for reimbursement, for example if you’re buying them for a work meeting or something.

    • TheSambassador@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      Sure … but a single donut?

      Honestly the process for getting reimbursed is annoying enough that I’m only going to do it for stuff that’s more than $10. I don’t need to be reimbursed often though

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    12 hours ago

    Most receipts contain a time stamp. I could imagine a scenario where someone claimed Mitch (if he was still here) was involved in a crime and he could use the donut receipt as proof of innocence.

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      It’s up to the discretion of the judge.

      Friend had car stolen. Joyriders caused police chase but they got away. Police arrested friend. He had an ATM receipt time stamped from when the police were chasing the stolen car.

      Judge didn’t care.

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      Man, I wish that was the case at places I worked at. My last company would give you stipends for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Try to spend that stipend at a convenience store because you don’t eat breakfast and just want some coffee and a snack for later? Screw you, we’re deducting from your paycheck for that.

      I had a coworker who got caught on the wrong side of that policy. Since then, he’d always max out his stipend at every meal. Apps, desserts, etc. He’d get a second entree just to take back to his hotel as long as it wouldn’t put him over the limit.

      He probably cost the company hundreds extra because they wouldn’t reimburse him for a bag of chips one time.

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          I’ve done similar as well. My work gave me a real hard time with a grocery receipt, because there was a grocery store an easy walk from the hotel and I bought some deodorant or something along with some snacks and sandwich ingredients. It was maybe $30. My choices were don’t claim it or recalculate the cost without deodorant including tax from just the deodorant and write a memo detailing what meal(s) I was charging. I Also had to say why I wasn’t claiming certain meals (because leftovers, etc., I even had to have a meeting with the refund person because the company putting on the training fed us and I didn’t have receipts). After that I made sure I ordered as close to ~$43 as I could (meal plus 15% tip maxed out what I could claim) three times a day.

          I also couldn’t order two appetizers or entrees without needing a memo and/or showing it was for the next meal because we couldn’t buy someone else food. Pizzas were never questioned beyond “you ate it all yourself?” though. I really like expensive pizza parlors when I’m traveling for work.

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    This person has never had to file an expense claim for meals that are paid by the employer.

    Yes, it’s only a dollar or two. But it’s a dollar or two that my employer has to pay extra.

    I once picked up one of those dirt cheap breakfast toasts from burger King. My expense report stated “Worst breakfast ever. Never again.”

  • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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    8 hours ago

    In my part of the world, the receipt proves that the sale was entered into the tax record, so the seller is not cheating on taxes by understating revenue.