Support for support staff?

Sometimes you have to marvel at the bureaucracy in large academic institutions.

We're working on processing the reimbursements for my conference trip a few weeks ago, which has already been plagued by the MIT Travel "Office," which insists on us filling out two separate forms for the hotel and for the registration fee---then proceeds to make both of the resulting travel advances out to me so that I can write separate checks. [And they have the nerve to charge separately for each travel advance request, even though it's *their* fault I needed two in the first place.]

And it looks like we're going to go through round two with the Travel Office. What fun.