{"id":900068,"date":"2026-04-18T15:15:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/my-boss-made-me-pay-out-of-pocket-on-a-work-trip-i-let-karma-do-the-rest\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T15:15:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T20:15:04","slug":"my-boss-made-me-pay-out-of-pocket-on-a-work-trip-i-let-karma-do-the-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/my-boss-made-me-pay-out-of-pocket-on-a-work-trip-i-let-karma-do-the-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"My Boss Made Me Pay Out of Pocket on a Work Trip, I Let Karma Do the Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"image28583666\" class>\n<p><i><strong>She called me\u00a0three days later<\/strong>. Both reimbursements would be\u00a0processed that week. And there would be\u00a0<strong>changes to\u00a0the management structure<\/strong>, details she couldn\u2019t share, but my\u00a0report had been taken seriously. And so\u00a0had two others she hadn\u2019t known about until\u00a0I came\u00a0in.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><strong>Daniel was removed from his role<\/strong> by\u00a0the end of\u00a0the month. A\u00a0new manager came\u00a0in. My\u00a0$160 showed up\u00a0in\u00a0payroll like it\u00a0had always belonged there. And that\u2019s when <strong>things got complicated<\/strong>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>A\u00a0few days after the news broke internally, one of\u00a0my\u00a0<strong>coworkers<\/strong> stopped by\u00a0my\u00a0desk. She just said, quietly: <strong>\u201cYou know he\u00a0has a\u00a0kid, right? And his wife is\u00a0not working right now.\u201d<\/strong> And then she walked away. Another coworker stopped inviting me\u00a0to\u00a0the group lunch. Someone else told me\u00a0<strong>I\u00a0\u201ccould have just let it\u00a0go, it\u00a0was only $80.\u201d<\/strong> And the worst part? For a\u00a0second, a\u00a0small, awful second, I\u00a0believed them.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I\u00a0still don\u2019t feel like\u00a0I won anything. I\u00a0feel weird about\u00a0it. But <strong>I\u00a0also don\u2019t think\u00a0I did anything wrong. Did I? That\u2019s what\u00a0I keep asking myself. <\/strong>My\u00a0sister says\u00a0I did the right thing, full stop. But some days\u00a0I wake up\u00a0and\u00a0I just feel bad about the whole thing, even though\u00a0I know what he\u00a0did wasn\u2019t okay.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><strong>Was I\u00a0right to\u00a0go\u00a0to\u00a0HR? Should I\u00a0have found another way?<\/strong> Or\u00a0is\u00a0this guilt just what doing the right thing sometimes feels like? <strong>Bright Sid<\/strong>e, I\u00a0really need an\u00a0outside perspective on\u00a0this one.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> Randy Byron<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/brightside.me\/articles\/my-boss-made-me-pay-out-of-pocket-on-a-work-trip-i-let-karma-do-the-rest-846002\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She called me\u00a0three days later. Both reimbursements would be\u00a0processed that week. And there would be\u00a0changes to\u00a0the management structure, details she couldn\u2019t share, but my\u00a0report had been taken seriously. And so\u00a0had two others she hadn\u2019t known about until\u00a0I came\u00a0in. Daniel was removed from his role by\u00a0the end of\u00a0the month. A\u00a0new manager came\u00a0in. My\u00a0$160 showed up\u00a0in\u00a0payroll like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":900069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28992,4046],"tags":[148932,7371],"class_list":{"0":"post-900068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-karma","8":"category-pocket","9":"tag-karma","10":"tag-pocket"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}