Does your work offer trips abroad?

My company recently flew several thousand of us abroad for 3 nights of drinking with some light touch corporate stuff during the day.

Former employers weren't so generous
 
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My company recently flew several thousand of us abroad for 3 nights of drinking with some light touch corporate stuff during the day.

Former employers weren't so generous
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My ex-company regularly flew/still flies several thousand employees down south for four months of drinking with zero corporate stuff during the day.
 
Worked in defence industry 15+ years ago and had a trip over to Ireland in a chinook with a special unit.

Been to south of France a few times for one employer about 7 years ago.

Current one I went to Aws reinvent last year in Las Vegas.
 
Foreign trips. Nah. Not me. Wish I did. I get to travel a couple of hundred miles a day around middle and northern England though fixing stuff for warden call and nurse call systems. I love my job. A colleague of mine gets trips to Malta, Ireland and Isle of Man now and again doing same sorta thing. He gets to go to these places 'cos he has the midas touch at repairs. Clever, confident B*****d :).. Doesn't get time for sightseeing thogh. Job and knock. He is an absoloute hero. Helped me out no end of times.

Heard a, supposedly true, funny story a few years ago about a tech support job. Chap in Saudi phoned british company for tech support on some electronic-machinery being used over there. Phone calls couldn't get to the bottom of it. In the end a tech chap from britain got sent to Saudi to solve it. Sorted in no time. It was a fuse :). I like to think it was true. :)
 
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As you get older work travel becomes a real pain in the ass. Couple of times a year to the states now week at a time which is ok. Thankfully the in/out day trips to Europe have pretty much gone thanks to Brexit. (The only benefit)
 
I got sent to the US earlier this year (Shelton and Tulsa). In a few weeks I should go to Berlin. Cape Town highly likely next year. Also Netherlands at some point soon.
 
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Current employer nothing - used to do paid team "bonding" days out/weekends in the UK but that hasn't happened in awhile - budget for it got axed when they got rid of regular bonuses.

Previous employer there was the option of trade shows or similar abroad about twice a year, usually US, with the option of taking a few days as holiday around it, also longer stints - like 3 months in LA, etc. the allowance would leave you out of pocket unless you cut things to the bone though.

My brother's previous employer was frequently having them go out to Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic and some further afield like UAE, one of the reasons he moved on eventually as it got old after the novelty wore off. (EDIT: That and they'd invariably fly out to train people up to replace UK jobs, because on paper it was cheaper, only for it to cause massive efficiency issues and cause the company far more problems but they'd never learn).
 
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When I worked for Santander, teams would be sent all over the world due to all the bank acquisitions they made during the 2000's. Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Portugal, Spain, Indonesia, USA etc.... I got sent to Liverpool and Leicester because of A&L :cry:
 
In the 26 years since I joined the RAF I’ve been to some hot & sandy places. Got a week in Germany coming up on a NATO course which will give me a day in Munich free to have a wander. Had a few days in Kenya, 2 x 2 years in Cyprus, a few days in/on Ascension. Not exactly Vegas.
 
Never been abroad for work. Though had stayed at hotels in Cardiff, in a business park when my then employer opened a new call centre and needed staff from Leeds (living there then) to help the newbies.

Worked paid for everything. Expensive things on the menus and loads of Malibu and Coke!

Then was volunteered to work at a store refit in London when I first started working at my current employer. Again get the most expensive meals, drinks etc. We had only one day off in the ten days there and think work part paid for our tickets etc for attractions we visited in Central London.
 
There is a big difference between work travel and just a general team building/social meet up abroad. The former happens a lot and i try to avoid traveling too much. In my mast job sometimes i would go a month and barely see my family. Luckily now most people understand that a video call is just as useful in 90% of occasions.

Just a general team social event with travel, that has never happened. In fact, any kind of social activity has been rare. Weird opex reasons, like our whole engineering team earns 200-300K USD per year but there isn't a budget for a Christmas dinner
 
Yep. I recently went on a trip to Barcelona with other people in the business. Flights, hotel and all food/drink paid for. I'd never been on one before so took 250 euros as spending money, came back with 210 :p

Sadly there were a few people that over indulged and turned into typical British yobbo tourists. One of the group was glugging the bottle of tequila he bought in duty free whilst on the plane and had to be warned several times. He was one warning away from being met by the police at Heathrow because of his behaviour. Clown.

They've done trips in the past to Vegas, Mexico, Ibiza, Lisbon and the next one is a Skiing trip to Italy in January.
 
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I get to go and visits clients, doing my pre-sales patter in Croydon isn't something to brag about tbh.
 
My parents live abroad. I spent three weeks there in summer, week off and two weeks WfH. I had to buy my own flights but they were OK with it. Does that count? :)

There are some opportunities for us to travel, for example we currently have a guy in Malaysia for a year and another in Tasmania for couple of years.
 
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My Dad’s last two employers had factories in Germany and/or Poland. Sometimes he had to book a last minute flight for the morning. Leave home at 3am. Get 6am flight to Birmingham. Then either get taxi or hire car (depending which airport he landed) drive to factory. Do what’s needed. Have a bite to eat at canteen. Go for meeting. Leave factory at 4pm. Get flight back to Birmingham at 7pm. Get home at 10:30pm
 
My soon to be old employer had quite a few offices so I travelled quite a bit and had budget to be extremely generous with people so I brought the entertainment with me.

Domestically they always went top end for company events (in CH) which was always a good experience. CEO would spout some rubbish and then a free for all.
 
When I worked for CSC I had a month in Dublin working on the PayPal and Ebay contract and also a week in Isle of Man on the Royal Mail contract, now I work for MOJ I requested they build a prison in Tenerife but so far that has fallen on deaf ears :cry:
 
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