About taking advantage

I was thinking of this term and that it sounds like it is catching some opportunity, which can't be too bad. But actually the situation I had in mind in my encounter is suppose to be cheapo and very non-professional.

A few of my colleague will be travelling to US for a training. SO the company is writing them letters to get visa. This paarticular guy who already owns a visa due to his previous travelling actually asked for the letter too. And guess what he is using that for? to apply for Canadian long-term visa. When i heard this from my best friend at the office.. we were saying wtf.. cause this is so unprofessional and taking the advantage of company opportunity for his own personnel matters. And all the more we feel bad cause the colleague used to be a close friends.. but as tiem moves.. we found out more and more... "cheapo" act of his. Like he was making excessive claims on shifts until he gets warning from the boss, he complains he is not getting cash in advance although he already has a coorperate AMEX card for the trip (I mean how poor are you seriously). And the most annoying part, he keep bugging my best friend about travel plans while my best friend hasn't even got her visa approve, honestly, which is more critical?

Okay.. side tracked... my company has a lot of really nice policies for us, but the thing is it gets misused very often, like we do not need MC if it is only 1 day. This itself, one of my fellow teammates has been off at least 3-4 times every month. *average once a week. Because we work at nite and it is not obvious.

When you think about it, the reason the company is having this kind of "good" policies is because of its trust for employees.. but people like those keep taking advantage of it. I mean someday they are just gonna force the HR to change it all to suit the "local" culure. Because of these people..

Damn!