Basic Trope: Using the company credit card to purchase items not meant for work.
- Straight: Bob uses the company credit card to pay for a dinner for him and his wife Alice.
- Exaggerated: Bob uses the company credit card to purchase a tiger, a blimp, a private island, a private jet and a one-on-one basketball game with Shaquille O'Neal.
- Downplayed: Bob uses the company credit card to purchase additional office supplies, but forgets to include that charge in his expense report.
- Justified: This is perfectly doable fraud.
- Inverted: Bob is such a stickler for rules that he refuses to use his company credit card to pay for even a fast food dinner for the family.
- Subverted: Bob buys a fancy dinner with the company credit card, but it turns out that was actually what he was supposed to do, as his company was hoping to get the restaurant's sponsorship.
- Double Subverted: The food was covered, but not the wine.
- Parodied:
- Zig-Zagged: Bob spends the company card on a good meal, a hotel room and a rental car from the airport but spends his own money on buying snacks and a souvenir for his wife.
- Averted: Bob doesn't use the company credit card to buy any lavish items for himself.
- Enforced: "We want some fancy Food Porn, but Bob definitely can't afford all that." "What if he abuses the company card?"
- Lampshaded:
- Invoked: Bob's Evil Mentor advises him that he can get away with this as the company doesn't track purchases very closely.
- Exploited: Bob's rival Charlie notices Bob doing this and uses it as blackmail material.
- Defied: The company tracks the credit card purchases very closely and abuse will lead to instant firing.
- Discussed:
- Conversed: "Hey Bob, why is there a charge on the company credit card for a $600 dinner?"
- Implied: "You know, Bob's the reason why all purchases on the company credit card have to be approved by the CEO."
- Deconstructed:
- Reconstructed:
- Played for Horror
- Played for Drama: Bob doesn't make nearly as much money as he should and he feels compelled to do this as a form of petty vengeance.
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